WSJ Article “JFK Turf War”; Delta expansion plans, or not?
Mar 11, 2018, 3:34 pm
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DL will still have to compete against JetBlue, and indirectly against United's EWR hub. DL and AA may want to consider trading JFK terminals - DL takes over terminal 8 and AA moves to terminal 2. DL gets a relatively modern terminal with lots of room while AA consolidates its shrinking JFK ops into fewer gates, saving on costs.
Mar 11, 2018, 3:37 pm
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Last I checked, NRT has a pretty fast rail link to Tokyo, yet everybody prefers HND because not everyone wants to go to the train station. The same issue would doom any attempt to replace LAX with an airport out in Palmdale or wherever, no matter how fast you made the train.
Having said that, I'm not sure there's a great example of high speed rail working to make a remote airport super popular. In places like DC, NYC, Toronto or Rio where the farther out airports carry more passengers it's generally some combination of extremely limited capacity at the close-in airport along with artificial constraints on service.
Mar 11, 2018, 3:54 pm
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The neighborhoods near airports are usually pretty bad. Exceptions being places like SNA or SMO. Why not just give those slumlords some money and tear down the eyesores and expand the airport?
Mar 11, 2018, 7:36 pm
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One of the really lousy things about JFK is that they can't legally start serving adult beverages until 8:00 am. Here New York is off the charts liberal, and they have this really stupid law on the books.