It's the joke in the EWR Airbus fleet for the LGA regulars that we tell all the people senior to us that the flying is terrible. I'm a EWR 320 captain only since April 8th, but I do mostly LGA now because:

a) LGA trips go out and don't return until the last day whereas EWR A320 trips tend to be a lot of EWR-ATL-EWR-ATL layover ATL-EWR-BUF-EWR etc..

b) you get paid $94 extra "crosstown pay" for going to LGA

c) LGA is slot controlled so delays are mitigated and when you land you usually get a gate right away and

d) most LGA trips are 2 legs per day.


My last LGA trip was LGA-ORD-PWM 19hrs PWM-ORD-PDX 15 hrs PDX-IAH-MFE 15 hours MFE-IAH-LGA done at noon.

The bus out of LGA is great not to mention that as an A320FO the cockpit workload is considerably less than that of a 737FO and Fifi lands normally around 125 - 130 knots so no sweat landing on shorter runways like LGA's. I would say the biggest downside is the chance you will get newhire/newhire paired in initial training and the workload for that month will be huge. Don't know how common that is on the 737 fleet, but I hear it's become fairly common on the Airbus side.