A day in the life of two business aviation airports
Busy isn’t an adequate description of life at Teterboro and Van Nuys Airports on a Friday evening the week before Thanksgiving or Christmas.

Busy isn’t an adequate description of life at Teterboro and Van Nuys Airports on a Friday evening the week before Thanksgiving or Christmas. Airplanes idling on the ramp, backed up on the taxiways, as pilots and passengers chafe at the delay.

On that single day, there may be as many as 1,000 aircraft movements at Teterboro and more than 1,300 at Van Nuys. Between them, the two airports regularly record more than 800,000 movements annually.