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Hotel Kilo
New York is a huge market for us. How we feed it is a network planning issue. Also has the highest percentage of commuters. New York state employment rights are not a concern. If they were then we'd be doing the same things in MSP and LAX and SEA.
The NEOs are fuming and we are far from a solution in that jet. Looks to be front fan seals. If this continues you're going to see some shuffling of that carribean flying. We can't afford to keep doing in flight returns from those island destinations. I will tell you there are going to be changes to that flying on that fleet until we get a solution from PW.
When new terminal 1 opens up at JFK we're getting most of the A gates in T4 as well. That was the deal when we lost T2.
We're not pulling back from the New York metro area.
I have the solution for the fumes. Start descent early, keep power on the engines as much as posible.
Maybe do FPA or VS until lower altitude, then you can go idle. But that’s just my technique and haven’t had any issues so far.