Paulie Comment

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Worcester would be a great airport to focus on Florida destinations. Palm Beach is expanding its airport, and a flight to Palm beach would be beneficial even though it’s an hour from Fort Lauderdale. Between Fort Lauderdale and west palm beach, you got Pompano Beach, Deerfield Beach, Boca Raton, Highland Beach, Delray Beach, and Lake Worth. Oceanfront and close to the ocean houses and condos have skyrocketed in value and demand the past 5-10 years and those beaches are the closest to west palm and Fort Lauderdale that still have housing and condos. It’s not many but it’s where the market is extremely hot. I have work trips to west palm beach every year and I fly down to Fort Lauderdale then take a bus or train up to west palm. I remember flying out of west palm in 2022 to go to LaGuardia on delta’s a321 and the flight was packed full (191 seats).

If Worcester was marketed towards Florida, it would be a huge hit. The data shows it already with past FLL and MCO flights. Tampa and Palm Beach have huge markets that not many airports in New England outside of Boston have flights too. I would still like to see some flights for business travelers like American to DCA or Charlotte and Delta to either Atlanta, Detroit, or Minneapolis but for families and leisure travelers, non stop to Florida makes the most sense. Saw comments on avelo to Raleigh from the MHT Facebook page mentioning that “no one wants to fly to Raleigh” or “why get some leisure destinations?” Non business travelers want flights to vacation destinations, they’re the airlines biggest markets and especially families that have kids in strollers or baby car seats, it’s a pain for them to make connecting flights.

Editor’s note: We own a condo in Boca. Think the number of people who own property in Florida from Central Mass is staggering