Originally Posted by
Excargodog
a loss of 1.28 million (from 5.14 million) departures during a period when air travel was growing is surprising to me. Clearly, some of that may be attributed to larger regional jets, but even so...
Less RJ departures, maybe, but I bet RJs flew many more miles. Before Covid, more of my LGA and JFK flights were of the 800-1200 mile variety than the 200-400 mile variety. JFK-DFW, JFK-ORD, LGA-STL, NYC-JAX... these were common 900 routes.