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Agreed completely, Clark. When I reference load factors, it’s more to analyze the trend of how the service is performing. Measures of profitability are first and foremost, but seeing loads quarter-full is disheartening to say the least. As far as I’m concerned, the Worcester market has so many unknowns that can only be told by how many people are actually on these flights.

The good news is it finally looks like JetBlue is playing ball at ORH – they were NOT expecting the FLL flights to perform the way they did when they upguaged to A320s last summer. Now, hopefully American and Delta can follow suit. While direct flights are nice to have, there is no question a successful airport should have reliable service to hubs.

I also apologize for my harsh tone and rudeness. I am better than that.

Bitfly – I don’t think anyone will disagree with you on Charlotte and Atlanta. But don’t you think that Massport knows that? The problem lies with the airlines, and it has to be something as simple as being unwilling to serve those airports for whatever reason. There is an idea that airlines are worried about leakage impacting their successful stations like PVD and BDL, and maybe there’s some truth to that. It could be fleet limitations, crew shortages, gate availability, etc. Unless you have an in, there’s no way of knowing for sure (so start networking!!!)

Unquestionably the AA flight STILL not connecting to anything in JetBlue’s system is a major factor in it’s abysmal performance so far. I do believe that if we don’t have service to large hubs like Atlanta and Charlotte, both of these flights to NYC make the most sense. It’s a 30 minute hop, combined between LGA and NYC will really get you anywhere in the world, especially to Florida. I bet if these flights pick up and do well, they will be more willing to test larger markets.

To add to your thoughts on American, which again I agree, what’s more likely is the flight could shift back to PHL where it actually was doing really well before COVID struck. Don’t forget, the short time period after they launched PHL again the single flight landed at 7 PM and departed back again to PHL at 8. What are you connecting to with that? These flights MUST have a combination of both O/D and connecting passengers to succeed. Let’s just be happy we don’t have Detroit back with Delta. Systematically speaking, Detroit is underwhelming for everyone at the moment, I doubt ORH would be an exception.