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Alot of great comments this week. Please note we love the service out of Worcester, my wife, daughter and I must have take 10 trips to FLL this winter and my daughter having internship this summer in Boca.
Paulie Comment:
JetBlue hasn’t expanded here because they don’t want to have their own crews come in and work the flights especially when they would be all spread out throughout the day. They have room for a 4th flight if they want but who’s to say Worcester airport actually has the capacity to do it. Someone made a comment a while back about how ORH had a capacity of a certain number of passengers a year and the airport was (if I remember correctly) only 20k off from it and that was before the Fort Myers flight. JetBlue is not going to have massive expansions anytime soon and they don’t expect to be profitable this year anymore. More routes will be cut but I believe ORH will still be safe since JetBlue is making money on the route thanks to loads being in the 70-80%+ range even with the bigger planes.
I flew on delta on Tuesday back to Worcester from Nashville and had a 3 hour layover at LaGuardia. New terminal is very nice, only issue with it is the gates are extremely spread out so if you have to go to the 60s gates and you first plane is at the 90s gates, it’s a good 15-20 minute walk to the other side of the terminal. The flight to worcester was pretty full, I believe there was only 10 seats open which is really good for that flight. The flight back however didn’t look like many people were getting on.
One thing I did notice though was all the Florida destination flights with delta and how packed the gates were. I think the LaGuardia flight could be successful if they had the old schedule that JetBlue had: Leave ORH early in the morning and arrive late in the evening. Only issue is LaGuardia airport is closed between midnight and 5am but when I landed at LaGuardia from my first flight around 930am, there were so many Florida flights taking off and boarding that an early schedule like that would easily work. Moving the times 2 hours earlier than what we have now wouldn’t work because getting to the airport, loads would be very low while flying back to LaGuardia they would be good. Kinda have to find that balance right in the middle which is difficult but the LaGuardia flight can work, especially since flying to Worcester from there is 30-35 minutes which is just about the same distance driving from Worcester airport to Marlborough.
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Where do you find the load data? Massport is going to build an overflow lot, where will that be
https://www.aviationdb.com/Aviation/F4SDetailQuery.shtm
In regards to overflow lot, my guess is they’ll install permanent light post and other things where the temporary one is now but I can’t confirm that. Hopefully we hear more soon. They’ve been doing a lot of work up there and I’m glad that they have repaving in the budget for the areas on the property because they’re rough