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Old Jan 31, 2013 | 9:53 am
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Originally Posted by tylerdurden4543
EWR is your issue.

The majority of AA flights into NYC go to LGA and JFK barely followed by EWR. My guess is that AA only flies into EWR because they've identified a finite number of business travelers based in NJ who will pay a significant premium to fly into EWR.
After all the comments, I think you're correct.

Thanks to all for input. I don't fly EWR often... so thought it was an anomaly. Looks like planned profit.
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