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Now in Florida |
I have to go into NYC for a family event in November. LGA is definitely the most convenient airport given where I will be staying, but I have heard that it is undergoing major renovations that make it a bad choice. I could fly into EWR but that would be a bit of an inconvenience. Anyone been to LGA recently? Is it really bad enough to avoid it and go somewhere else? | ||
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Honky Lips |
you couldn't pay me enough money to fly in to or out of EWR. | |||
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Diablo Blanco |
I fly into LGA and EWR all the time, and can say both airports suck. LGA has been undergoing renovations for as long as I have been alive. A lot depends on which airline you are flying. The Southwest terminal in both airports really suck. I'd deal with LGA if it is more convenient to your destination. _________________________ "An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last” - Winston Churchil | |||
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| Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished |
I changed planes at LGA a couple of weeks ago and it was fine. It took about 40 minutes for the connecting flight to taxi and take off but it's a busy airport. If your flight terminates there I didn't see any reason to avoid it. | |||
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Mensch |
I flew there last month. It's fine. Takeoffs & landings are fun since the runways are short. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Yidn, shreibt un fershreibt" "The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind." -Bomber Harris | |||
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| On the wrong side of the Mobius strip  |
I flew into LGA for work a couple of weeks back. The renovation work had no effect on either of my flights. The wait time for a NYC taxi was over an hour. I had a car service waiting for me. These guys have to wait in another area and you take a shuttle bus there. I'm not sure how private cars were handling pickups. Drop offs were right at the terminal. Traffic was typical for NY. | |||
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| Mensch |
My father picked me up in the 2nd section of road by baggage claim. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Yidn, shreibt un fershreibt" "The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind." -Bomber Harris | |||
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Member |
Last Gasp Airport...Sorry but it sux ______________________________________________ Life is short. It’s shorter with the wrong gun… | |||
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| Purveyor of Fine Avatars  |
Fun fact: If you look at LaGuardia on Google Earth using 3D Buildings enabled, you can see Trump's private jet. It doesn't show up in 2D. "I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes" | |||
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DeadHead |
Westchester County airport (HPN) is about 20 miles north of LGA. It's smaller and much nicer than LGA and Jet Blue has direct flights from a few points in Florida. "Being miserable and treating other people like dirt is every New Yorker's God-given right!" - GhostBusters II "You have all the tools you need. Don't blame them. Use them." - Dan Worrall | |||
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| Now in Florida |
There's only one returning flight each day and the time doesn't work for me. But thanks! | |||
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Sound and Fury |
This. The SWA terminal at LaGuardia is a like an old bus station. You can get an Uber much faster than waiting on the cab line, and they have designated pick-up spots. "I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind-swept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace, a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity, and if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here." -- Ronald Reagan, Farewell Address, Jan. 11, 1989 Si vis pacem para bellum There are none so blind as those who refuse to see. Feeding Trolls Since 1995 | |||
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Member |
Flew in two weeks ago. Flight was delayed 2 hrs due to "weather". Airport was under construction but it wasn't bad. Got an uber rather quickly. It reminded me of being in a third world country with all the porters and cabbies trying to get business. I flew back out of JFK so can't tell you how the construction affects departure. Still not sure what people see in that city... | |||
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The Karmanator |
And depending on the approach can be over water. The most memorable landing I have ever had was coming to LGA in a howling rainstorm. The plane was bucking and we did a tight circle and came on to the runway over the water. It felt like we were going to hit the water when the runway appeared out of nowhere. It was crazy. | |||
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