Originally Posted by ObiOne

There may not be a ton of money in the city of Philadelphia, but there are a lot of people and there is a fair amount of money in some of the surrounding areas in PA and NJ. Basically anyone around here who has a roughly equidistant drive would much rather go out of PHL than EWR, hands down.

PHL is also low key a good alternative to the NYC airports for connecting traffic going to Europe. PHL will never match the size of the operation and opportunities at EWR, but it does at least have a purpose.