Originally Posted by
GogglesPisano
Negative. There is no carve-out as it pertains to NYC. But the unwritten but generally accepted "2 hours" is measured from the nearest of JFK/LGA/EWR. You could be 2 hours from EWR, but 4 hours from JFK depending on traffic.
This is exactly what a lot of us use. There's a ton of "local-ish" non air commuters that sit SC at home using EWR as an anchor point. (Northeast PA, all of NJ, northern DE/MD, Catskill/Husdon Valley in NY) and I'm sure others in CT, Western MA, Hudson Valley use LGA as theirs.
I don't know which one of the 3 I'm going to get called to, and I can be sitting in the pilot lounge at one and still be over 2 hours from another during rush hour. Heck, at most of the airports, it's 1/2 hour from the gate to your car on a good day and you just catch the bus.