New York Stewart International Airport — Local services in Town of New Windsor

This is a cute, little airport - as long as you don't plan on flying out of here.

I recently needed a rental car for a long-distance drive and used Avis, located inside the terminal. I used the airport long-term parking to leave my personal vehicle while I used the rental car. I was able to park close to Avis and walk there. It was especially convenient because the long-term parking lot was nearly empty since Stewart doesn't do much business because of the insanely high prices and chasing away all of the major airline carriers.

I give it 3 stars because the place is very clean. I've picked up people from the airport in the past and every time, the floors, seating areas, etc. are all immaculate. Although, when you have no customers, it's probably much easier to keep it clean.

I've shopped for flights out of Stewart Airport and the prices are insanely high (usually double the prices elsewhere). They advertise round-trip flights to Florida for $99. However, I shopped online (several months in advance) for 2 round-trip tickets to FLL for early March, and it was $1200. We ended up driving down to LGA to fly to Florida.

This was not the first instance. The last 3x I flew to Florida over a several year period, I drove to NYC, despite living just 10 minutes away from Stewart. Each time, it saved me well over $600 by taking the drive to NYC.

Another problem with flying to Florida out of SWF are they have very few flights coming in and out. If you are coming back from a cruise or checking out of a hotel at a certain time, you could end up sitting around all day waiting for the only flight coming to SWF.

In some rare cases, SWF might have the correct flight and maybe a random reasonable price for people. But for most people, this is not the case -- which is why the airport is...

Allegiant air provides the worst customer service I've ever seen from an airline.. the luxury of flying from Stewart airport is being a small airport and avoiding all the hassle of getting to your flight 2 hrs early to wait.. Allegiant air advertises getting to gate 60 min before flight... Perfectly reasonable except when we arrived 75-85 min before fight to check our bag, no one was there to check it at the front desk. We waited while AA employees who were friendly enough to call and try to assist finding staff.. TSA was also trying to help.. after leaving my husband with the bag finally and going through TSA to the gate, I greeted "Roe" (the least friendly flight staff I've ever encountered) and explained that we have a bag that needs to be checked downstairs... At this point it was 45 min exactly until take off.. she repeated that they close the counter 45 min beforehand.. I explained that we have been waiting for the last 25 min for service downstairs and without even looking at me she said "well I've only been here 5 min. You have to bring it through TSA and I'll have to put it on the bottom of the plane". I lost several bottles of liquids/ cosmetics etc bc I had to bring through TSA now and when we finally got back upstairs and boarded the plane we were treated like we completely inconvenienced them. I want to add that we also weren't the last to board and then had to wait 25 min after all boarding for take off anyway. What could have been an easy thing for staff to fix turned into a terribly...

WORST airport in America. In my 40+ US airports of experience, not to mention 150+ airports abroad, this is easily the worst airport and borderline scam. No public transportation to anywhere connected to the world. There’s a “shuttle” to take to the remote train station, but oh, it only works on the weekdays. There’s a shady Megabus listing that has a ticket that fails to process your payment no matter what browser or payment method you use, but oh, it lists a 6:40 PM departure that actually leaves whenever it feels everybody is out already(and no mention of it anywhere in the website or at the airport). You find out when you ask “where’s is the bus?” Turns out, it left over an hour before scheduled departure. But don’t worry, you can take a million dollar uber/lyft taxi to the remote train station which you cannot walk to, supposedly, because pedestrians are not allowed to the bridge (regardless of the theoretical 3.5 hour walk). Do NOT fly from/to here unless it’s literally at least $300 cheaper, and prepare to pay that difference in dealing with the unpreparedness of the airport for any kind of operation. The Department of Transportation should have never granted permission for a commercial airport here. Even in the developing countries you have better options for getting...