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Old Mar 18, 2015 | 9:44 am
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Originally Posted by luckypierre
Doesn't Mr Silver anticipate your argument about aging northern airports and diminish its importance by highlighting the excellent operational performance of Virgin America who has a large percentage of flights originating or ending in said airports?


VX flies only a tiny percentage of its flights to JFK/ORD/EWR. It does fly a high number through SFO which doesn't score great in the numbers, but it is 26 minutes better per r/t than EWR is.
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