STEWART AIRPORT – You can tell the United Nations General Assembly is in session when dozens of jets from countries across the globe are parked at New York Stewart International Airport.
Planes are lined up on the tarmac at the Newburgh area airport.
Typically, the UN delegates are dropped off in New York and the crews fly the planes north and park them at Stewart.
Why? Less air traffic and congestion, they are out of the way of the heavily trafficked John F. Kennedy International Airport, and fees for landing, parking and fuel are cheaper than in New York.
Stewart officials welcome the additional aircraft each year for the increased visibility and notoriety of the airport as well as the additional revenue derived.
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