Originally Posted by
ernestnywang
I know lots of people who travel from the greater WAS area to either EWR or JFK (via NY Penn Station and either New York Airport Service or Metro / AirTrain) to take FLTs to Asia.
Those "lots of people" have good company to pay for them. Because train from WAS to NYC is easily $80-100 USD one-way, more if you want to take the Acela. Then from Penn Station to JFK if you do AirTrain it's another good 1 hour at least.
So let's see, you need to be at JFK at least 2 hours early, one hour AirTrain from Penn Station to JFK, and another good 3-4 hours from WAS area to NYC. So to board a flight, people in WAS need to budget 7 hours before actual departure time.
Not good...