Originally Posted by
chinatraderjmr
I was told they are considered the same city (NYC) for purposes of routing, SDC, etc. of course, this means nothing as I was told this by an agent who allowed me to change flights from ORD-EWR to ORD-LGA
Originally Posted by
anishub
For purposes of SDC, LGA and EWR are treated the same, but not JFK. I have many times changed from EWR to LGA but not to JFK unless it is irrops. YMMV
Originally Posted by
ciao114
The agent on the phone told me I can do SDC from LAX/EWR to LAX/JFK.
Northwest did treat all 3 airports as same NYC and I never had difficulties to do SDC so I believe UA does that too.
Thinking logically, EWR and LGA are only NYC and JFK is not NYC is more likely wrong.
This is definitely a YMMV situation. Technically, EWR and LGA are co-terminus, but you cannot SDC to a co-terminus airport, per the rules. Case and point, I was in a high fare class LGA-IAH-LAS trying to SDC to a lower or same fare class (I don't recall) EWR-LAS but it wasn't possible.