flying to New York City

Danbury, Connecticut has a nice airport near a rail link to the city.

David

Jose wrote:
Sounds like it's between HPN and LDJ as to which is the best
option for me.

Don't leave the Long Island airports out. They have the advantage of
being close(r) to light rail into Manhattan.

Jose

David Kazdan writes:

Danbury, Connecticut has a nice airport near a rail link to the city.

Yeah, there are smaller airports available. But consider accounting
for your own time when comparing costs of alternatives. Sure, landing
at KTEB, KEWR, or KLGA may take 20-200 bucks to park, but you get to
Manhattan in half an hour.

- FChE

On 09 Jun 2007 10:30:38 -0400, (Frank Ch. Eigler)
wrote:


David Kazdan writes:

Danbury, Connecticut has a nice airport near a rail link to the city.

Yeah, there are smaller airports available. But consider accounting
for your own time when comparing costs of alternatives. Sure, landing
at KTEB, KEWR, or KLGA may take 20-200 bucks to park, but you get to
Manhattan in half an hour.


DXR is a decent distance by cab from the rail station. The train
isn't that cheap, and it dosen't run as often as others around NYC.

Frank makes sense.

In article ,
B A R R Y wrote:

On 09 Jun 2007 10:30:38 -0400, (Frank Ch. Eigler)
wrote:


David Kazdan writes:

Danbury, Connecticut has a nice airport near a rail link to the city.

Yeah, there are smaller airports available. But consider accounting
for your own time when comparing costs of alternatives. Sure, landing
at KTEB, KEWR, or KLGA may take 20-200 bucks to park, but you get to
Manhattan in half an hour.


DXR is a decent distance by cab from the rail station. The train
isn't that cheap, and it dosen't run as often as others around NYC.

If you're thinking of landing at DXR, you would do better to use HPN. It's
a 10 minute cab ride to the White Plains train station. Trains run much
more frequently to White Plains than to Danbury, and the trip to Grand
Central is probably half the time once you're on a train. At peak times,
there's 10-12 trains an hour to/from White Plains. Many of them run
express and take a half hour. Even in the middle of the day there's 3 or 4
an hour to White Plains. Check the Metro North schedules at
http://as0.mta.info/mnr/schedules/sched_form.cfm.

If you are flying into DXR, I would strongly recommend all arrivals and
departures be done during daylight, or use instrument procedures, if you're
not familiar with the airport.

On Sat, 09 Jun 2007 12:40:54 -0400, Roy Smith wrote:


If you're thinking of landing at DXR, you would do better to use HPN.

Exactly my point.

Hmm, OK, I'm outvoted...my wife and I flew there for a New York trip two
weeks ago because we have relatives in Redding. My preference otherwise
would have been HPN, but it was a very pleasant trip overall and I
thought I'd mention the Danbury airport.

David

David Kazdan wrote:
Danbury, Connecticut has a nice airport near a rail link to the city.

David

Jose wrote:
Sounds like it's between HPN and LDJ as to which is the best
option for me.

Don't leave the Long Island airports out. They have the advantage of
being close(r) to light rail into Manhattan.

Jose

Pirep:

We flew into Linden, New Jersey, LDJ.

It was about 45 minutes into the city by taxi ($100) and about the
same total journey time back by train and taxi ($much less).

The airport was great. It's quiet and small so time spent taxiing was
minimal and time spent waiting for other aircraft was zero. The staff
at the FBO were very friendly and helpful, and the first night's fee
of $20 was waived with fuel purchase. I really liked it.

I've never flown into the big ones, but my guess is the extra time you
spend taxiing and queueing eats up the time savings of being closer
and much of the cost savings of being closer if you take a taxi.

The biggest disadvantage was the trains don't go that often so you
could have to wait.

Overall a great experience though.

On Jun 11, 10:24 am, wrote:
Pirep:

We flew into Linden, New Jersey, LDJ.

It was about 45 minutes into the city by taxi ($100) and about the
same total journey time back by train and taxi ($much less).

The airport was great. It's quiet and small so time spent taxiing was
minimal and time spent waiting for other aircraft was zero. The staff
at the FBO were very friendly and helpful, and the first night's fee
of $20 was waived with fuel purchase. I really liked it.

I've never flown into the big ones, but my guess is the extra time you
spend taxiing and queueing eats up the time savings of being closer
and much of the cost savings of being closer if you take a taxi.

The biggest disadvantage was the trains don't go that often so you
could have to wait.

Overall a great experience though.

Thanks for the PIREP. Can you provide details on mass transit (bus
and/or train) from the city? Distance of bus stop/station from the
airport? Transportation to/from the FBO, etc.

--Jeff

Train to and from the city is half an hour. It's New Jersey Transit
(www.njtransit.com). I don't know about other days of the week, but on
Sundays there are 2 trains an hour, very close together. Train goes to
Penn Station. Taxi ride between the airport and the station is 5
minutes.



Thanks for the PIREP. Can you provide details on mass transit (bus
and/or train) from the city? Distance of bus stop/station from the
airport? Transportation to/from the FBO, etc.

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