Teterboro Airport

Teterboro Airport (IATA airport code TEB) is a public airport in Teterboro operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. The airport is 12 miles (19 km) from midtown Manhattan in the Meadowlands, which makes it very popular for private and corporate airplanes.

Teterboro Airport takes up almost all of Teterboro and consists of 827 acres (3.3 km²): 90 acres (0.4 km²) for aircraft hangar and offices, 408 acres (1.7 km²) for aeronautical use and runways, and 329 acres (1.3 km²) undeveloped. The airport has more than 1,137 employees, and more than 90% are full time.

In 2003, U.S. Congressman Steve Rothman helped to authorize a federal bill to stop aircraft exceeding a weight of 100,000 pounds (45 t) from taking off from Teterboro because there was excessive noise levels in the surrounding residential communities.

Also in 2003, Teterboro briefly served as the base for Indigo Airlines, a "public charter" airline that offered daily flights to Chicago Midway Airport in small jet aircraft, with private ground facilities offering much faster check-in times than airlines at other New York airports. Rothman pressured the Port Authority and Transportation Security Administration to shut down Indigo's operations.