Originally Posted by
minnyfly
Like I said. If that's the reason why a return isn't worth it, which is reasonable, that means JFK was a marginal operation at best on the overall bottom line. That makes his blanket "wrong move" statement very suspicious. If an operation is only worth the capital already placed into it, then it's not lucrative and worthy to be cut.
The JFK operation may not have been profitable, but the knock-on effect was losing NYC, LAX and SFO based HVF, which has reduced profits across the whole network.