<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Blumie:
So all in, the trip took a little more than an hour (compared to the 35 minutes advertised in the PA brochure).</font>
The Port Authority's 35-minute figure assumes:
- Your home or office is inside Penn Station.
- Right when you stop to think, "Gee, I should head to the airport," the LIRR train will be there waiting for you, as if by magic.
- When the train arrives in Jamaica you will have had the foresight to be in the car whose doors open right in front of the stairs to the mezzanine.
- You continue your streak of astonishing scheduling coincidences by walking straight over to AirTrain and getting on just as the doors are ready to close.
- You are flying out of Terminal One.
An hour is a more reasonable amount of time to budget for the trip. That's still competitive with a cab, especially during rush hour.
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by JS:
It is amazingly fast from JFK to Jamaica.</font>
It is the fastest airport people-mover train I have ever been on. Even when traffic is light on the Van Wyck Expressway (ha, ha!) AirTrain keeps pace with the cars below. The between-concourse train at ATL is a mere travellator in comparison.