Need help choosing NYC airport

[chabs]

JetBlue is having a sale, so I need to quickly decide which airport is easiest for me to get in and out of. We live in upstate NY, so all of these are about a 2-3 hour drive:

Newark
JFK
LGA
White Plains

I'm looking for the one with the least amount of hassel-such as driving into the city, finding a place to park, crowds, security lines ect. The prices are all about the same, so I am going to choose by which airport is the easiest to fly out of.

(Newburg and Hartford are too expensive)

 

[extreme8]

White Plains is small and easy to get around in, very little hassle.
Parking on the other hand is a monster there. Not much of it and it's very expensive.
When we fly out of there I schedule an early morning flight and stay the night before at the La Quinta in Armonk. They have a "stay and go" package that includes a room, parking, breakfast, and a shuttle to the airport for about what you would pay for 3 days of parking on site.
Can't beat it!

 

[MmmmDisney.]

For the reasons you've listed... White Plains, by far. I'm not sure about parking, we used a limo service when we flew out of there. But security was a breeze, it's a small little airport and it was easy to get to (we are in Poughkeepsie). I would much rather fly out of White Plains, but we always seem to get the best flight times and cheaper rates out of JFK.

 

[Tara]

White Plains is probably the easiest for distance/traffic, but it is generally more expensive (in my experience). And the parking is a little cuckoo there.

Of the 3 NYC options, I vastly prefer Newark. It is much easier to get there...when I fly to Europe for work I almost always have to go out of JFK and I couldn't tell you how many times it has taken us 4+ hours to get there because of traffic. (I live in the Albany area.) I never originate out of LGA (will for the first time next week but will be leaving from our apartment in Tribeca, not upstate), so I can't comment specifically, but my hunch is that it isn't that much (or any) easier than JFK coming from the north.

If the price is right, look at buying the "Even More Space" option if you fly out of JFK. That will give you access to Jetblue's priority security lane. They may offer that in Newark and LGA as well but I'm not sure. We just flew to the Dominican Republic 2 weeks ago out of JFK and the Even More Space option was $30 each.