Since I live in Hoboken, I usually fly in/out of Newark Airport (EWR), but our flight to Cairo will be leaving from JFK. Living near a plethora of mass transit, this is not a big deal. Instead of taking a $60 car service, I will be taking the trains. After taking the PATH to 33rd St. in Manhattan, I will walk a couple of blocks to Penn Station, then take a 20 minute LIRR train to the Jamaica station (no, not the tropical, sandy, 'sippin a Pina Colada' Jamaica, this one is in Queens, NY). Then there is the JFK AirTrain which will take you to your Terminal of choice. In my case it is Terminal 4, as we are flying Egypt Air (I wonder how the stewardesses will be dressed?). BTW, if you do check out Egypt Air's web site, and your a nerd like me, you may notice it is implemented using ASP.Net (go Egypt), oh and so is Hooters Air (are they still in business?). Total travel time to JFK airport (just under an hour), cost: $12.75 (nice). We have a direct flight, leaving at 6:30pm and arriving at 12:30pm (Cairo time). Ouch that's an 11 hour flight, good thing I am bringing a book :).
Local time in Cairo:
The currency in Egypt is the Egyptian Pound (EGP), currently at 5.34867 per 1 USD. Darryl converted some USD for all of us, so we conduct some local commerce ;)
Well I am off to enjoy a farewell dinner (chicken parm, my favorite) with my lovely g.f.. I will check in tomorrow, when the adventure begins!
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment