Chicago Travel Forum

Hi

I have to fly from Chicago to New York at 9 am on a Friday morning. Any information regarding the cheapest way or different ways to get to the airport in the morning. I understand that one has to be there at least 2 hours before the flight.

thanks

The cheapest and most reliable way is the CTA blue line.

Go to the RTA trip planner: http://tripsweb.rtachicago.com/

Use the drop down menu to enter the airport (O'hare, not O'hara, although that's the way the late Mayor Daley pronounced it) as your destination. an address or (or a place name from the drop down menu as your starting point, and the time you need to arrive at the airport in the space provided. The fare is $2.

Look into public transportation, I believe a train will take you direct. Its fast, no traffic, your best choice! Ohare sometimes gets backed up if you drive!

Blue line is the way to go, but be advised that there are some slow zones because they faked their track maintenance until a train derailed. A lot of the slow zopnes are cleared up now, but they are still in effrect out there by the airport and along the Jeff Park to Belmont stretch. Expect the trip to take one hour or more. If you come on the weekend they may actually shuttle you between one or more train stations on a bus. If you go during rush hour you can expect third world conditions onthe trains, with frequent broken air conditioners, passengers crammed in nuts to butrts with faces mashed against the glass and pregnant women or small children begging for mercy as they are slowly suffocated. Off peak hours it isn't so bad.