I sometimes enjoy the obscure routes one can take to save money going someplace.  I have family in the NYC area and flights from DFW to EWR (Newark) are generally very expensive.  You see, this is what happens when you let one airline dominate the non-stops between two large business cities. 

But I’ve always been surprised at just how cheap you can fly to Philadelphia from Dallas.  Stunningly cheap.  In fact, you can fly into PHL from a lot of places cheap.  As a result of some flight research a few days ago, I discovered you can fly from Portland, OR to Philadelphia for as little as $137.  That’s cheap. 

Well, if you are traveling for leisure and on severe budget, you can fly to PHL and take 2 trains to NYC.  Surprisingly, they aren’t too expensive (about $6 and $16 respectively to take me from PHL to Hoboken, NJ in about 2 hours.)  And you get to take a train which is a pretty low impact experience all in all.   You can do it similarly to Baltimore / Washington, D.C. but I’ve found that you usually can find reasonable air fare to D.C. from most cities. 

It’s an option for you bargain hunters out there.  I’ll seriously consider it the next time I want to visit NYC.

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