Originally Posted by
entropy
Perception and group think is a hard think to change. CO tried for years to convince people that Gatwick was an easier/better/at least just as good as LHR, and they were salivating over the end of Bermuda2 because they knew that as much as they wanted to pretend it was the same, its not...
Exactly, only in the NYC case UACO is now forced to pretend the opposite, that the also-ran airport is just as good as the primary, preferred O/D one. And they will have their work cut out for them, to wit:
Originally Posted by
dkc715
I was on a PS flight yesterday from LAX to JFK. Two GS agents were on board holding the hands of GS customers, listening to their customers tell them their transcon business is going to Jet Blue or Delta. The extremely nice agents were trying to get them to consider the service into EWR and touting the corporate lines. These particular customers appear to have made up their minds.
I expect they are far from alone.
Originally Posted by entropy
...CO made a great investment in EWR, 15 years ago, and are still trumpeting that investment as if its new. but no question, they did build a very strong O/D and connecting operation.
More like close to 30 years ago. PeoplExpress commissioned Terminal C in the early '80s but went bust before it was done; CO christened it and moved in in 1987, and that was the beginning of CO's evolution away from its DEN-IAH axis. But not much has been done to enhance the EWR experience ever since except the monorail.