Originally Posted by
JayRalstonSmith
100% true in the past, but the idea that EWR is considered a separate market has been blown out of the water with the recent EWR ATC issues. Airlines are willingly rebooking pax into LGA and JFK, because it is the same market. Pax are also booking away from EWR on their own to LGA and JFK...because it is the same market. There is no rationale where the DOT or DOJ can assert that EWR is a separate market anymore.
Wait, I thought considerable advertising dollars were spent educating the traveling public about how LGA and JFK were NYC airports and that EWR should be considered a separate market? Well- you all win. Newark is over in New Jersey now. I kid, I kid.