FlyerTalk Forums - View Single Post - United forced to suspend JFK service due to expiration/lack of slots, end of Oct 2022
Thread: United forced to suspend JFK service due to expiration/lack of slots, end of Oct 2022
View Single Post
Old Oct 4, 2022 | 3:39 pm
  #205  
ijgordon
FlyerTalk Evangelist
1M
40 Countries Visited
All eyes on you!
20 Years on Site
 
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: NYC
Posts: 27,884
Originally Posted by EWR764
Bingo. It's not about how many people are willing to cross the Hudson to use JFK or EWR, it's inbound, CA-originating traffic tends to exhibit a statistical preference for JFK. Manhattanites routinely survey about 50/50 in preference when the options are JFK/EWR (excluding LGA). Suburbs in the region essentially cancel each other out, as both have some catchment that is not competitive to the other.
Yup, which is largely why I agreed earlier with the poster suggesting free limo rides or other marketing offers could tip the scales for those coming to NYC. Though for whatever reason not flying to JFK seems to have cost them business with Disney and maybe other west-coast businesses? Maybe there really are a lot of CA folks actually going to the Hamptons and not Manhattan. 🤷‍♂️
ijgordon is offline  
Reply