I agree and hope that's the case.

BOS is one of the best markets in the country. JB was on the fence about trying to add it as a dot on their route map when all the sudden they were offered an entire terminal (thanks to DL) and almost overnight became the biggest airline in Boston history, taking over the Red Sox sponsorship to boot.

Its extremely affluent, everyone there travels, and it puts to shame almost every other town that dares to attempt to call themselves a "college town" and it has the air travel inertia per capita that few can match. They have more built in affluent travelers per capita than probably any other large city in the country by a wide margin. It is as close to "recession proof" as you can get in this industry.

IMO we need to kick CAL out and utilize every gate and find a way to get customs to staff it like it was designed for from the beginning. I'd think RA has a lot more clout to get something that basic and federal done. It would also help Boston and MA. If a few palms have to be greased, so be it. We paid 350M for a skinny sheet metal bridge in LGA and 1.5 Billion for a net 5 or 6 gates in JFK. I think we can get customs to locate to A in BOS for a lot less than that.

Its time to own that amazing market again and pry JB's crown jewel right out.