Originally Posted by Cathay Boy

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...