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Old Apr 23, 2019 | 11:59 am
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Long TPG interview with Vasu Raja that touches a lot on NYC strategy.

Our strategy is that we connect people to the world by connecting them through our hubs, right? In New York City that’s a very different thing. Again, we don’t have the slot portfolio, the size to go and have a 500 departure hub here, and so here we are focused on getting customers to and from New York City, but more specifically getting premium customers to and from New York City. And when I say premium customers, I mean people who tend to travel a lot, but not exclusively for business who value a deep schedule, a great product, not just on the airplane, but on the ground. And that may sound like a niche, but in New York City that’s a huge, huge market and so a lot of what we have done in New York City is actually cut away the things that are not consistent with that and focus heavily on the things that are. So we have gotten out of routes from New York to say Santo Domingo, but we have all 777s flying in New York to International, right?
https://thepointsguy.com/news/talkin...ing-vasu-raja/
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