Originally Posted by
A318neo
You're one of thousands of reasons why UA closing JFK was stupid. If Alaska knows how to fly one flight per day to a station, then UA should learn how to do it. UA should have kept JFK open even if only for a few LAX and SFO flights. The next step at growth might have been a IAH or DEN flight. ORD is tough because one flight is not enough unless they want only Midwest-ORD-JFK am flights and JFK-ORD-Midwest late afternoon flights.
Totally, if UA was out of JFK I wouldn't have even made this post! EWR is great if you're in Manhattan already / doing reg. business travel, but JFK more easily services so many more people in BK/Queens via MTA & ride-share, etc.
Dumb question: I assume LGA runway too short for these planes? Seems like the farthest distance for LGA flights is ~ Miami.