Originally Posted by CLazarus

I actually think the JFK pullout might have been ultimately a good thing (aside from the initial buffoonery of essentially trading our slots away for nothing). Yeah, perhaps we gave up on a lot of premium customers, but the CO did say at the time we’d lost money on the route for years. There was an awful lot of competition there on JFK - LAX/SFO premium transcons with JB/DAL/AA. Not much competition on them though for us out of EWR, and there are plenty of well-off NJ residents who don’t want to go to all the way JFK even if it means paying a higher fare.