<p>Thanks for those additional tips! It just seemed really tempting because LaGuardia is not really all that far from us. I was warned that NYC is not realistic, but I wanted to be sure.</p>
<p>All great to know!!!</p>
<p>Frankly, we didn’t know enough about the options on the other side. Is it ok to fly at entirely different hours (day vs night)? If the alternative is to make the son connect and/or fly to odd cities to make it viable on the time of day, maybe it’s worth it to deal with LGA. You’re adding 1-2 hours one-way to someone’s schedule - it may not be obvious who is better off taking it - the traveller or the driver.</p>
<p>It’s not just a matter of adding in the time of driving to and from LGA, it’s also the fact that LGA flights are often delayed even when there are no weather troubles; it is very common to have 1-3 hr delays into LGA, even when all the other flights to other airports in the northeast are relatively on-time because there is a problem with congestion and landing spots. Thus, planes are held at their outbound destinations (esp. short flights) until there is a chance that there will be a landing spot at LGA.</p>