Weston, CT
to ISP Airport.

Weston has no highway of its own, so the trip starts on country roads down to I-95 in Westport or Norwalk. Weston has no highway and no train station, which makes a car service the simplest way to any airport.

First leg: on country roads (Route 57 or Route 53) down to the Merritt or I-95. The rest of the way to Islip: the Merritt and the Hutchinson into the Bronx, the Throgs Neck Bridge and the Long Island Expressway east. Door to door it's about 80 mi, usually 1 hr 32 min – 1 hr 52 min, and the place that decides your timing is the Long Island Expressway.

From Weston, HPN is the quickest airport (about 42 min) and ISP is the farthest. You get one fixed price for Weston to ISP before you book, tolls included.

Choosing between airports? Here's how ISP stacks up from Weston.

With short lines at ISP, a pickup in Weston about 3 hr 15 min before take-off is normally enough.

Allow about 90 minutes at MacArthur — and extra on summer Fridays, when the Expressway is slowest. Holiday weekends and Friday afternoons are when we add the most cushion on the Weston route.

The same about 80 mi can take very different times. Here's what we usually see on the way to ISP.

There's no station in town — the nearest is Westport on the New Haven Line, so the train trip already starts with a drive. From Westport, ride the New Haven Line to Grand Central, then the LIRR toward Ronkonkoma (usually changing at Jamaica) and a shuttle to the terminal — a long day.

By car it's one ride from your door: 1 hr 32 min – 1 hr 52 min to ISP.

Islip is a single-terminal airport with short lines. Your chauffeur waits right outside the terminal; with one terminal and a small curb, it's one of the easiest pickups around.

For the return, your chauffeur follows the flight, so a delay doesn't cost you anything — the free hour of waiting starts at landing. Islip guide →