JetBlue & Manchester

8 thoughts on “JetBlue & Manchester”

1. JetBlue also is adding more flights from Boston and Portland is getting a seasonal winter flight to Orlando. Wtf Worcester

2. So it seems like every New England airport is getting more JetBlue service except for Worcester for the winter. Avelo is also moving into Bradley as well (will still be operating out of New Haven). This really makes me question who’s running worcester airport and the decision making up there. Manchester getting the same flights as worcester makes me wonder if JetBlue is leaving soon potentially since they expanded at every airport but ORH.

3. They don’t want the noise lol, can you remember when you heard that narrative.

4. It’s business as usual at D’OhRH. Every other airport continues to grow while D’ORH is stuck on the side of the road. I think it’s safe to say that Massport taking over the airport has been a complete and utter failure. They’re quid pro quo arrangement with JetBlue, Delta, and American has left us with nothing but mediocre service and an airport that apparently no airline wants to be at.

5. The Worcester city council could never do better, have you listen to them, this current group is a joke. Moe Bergman maybe the sharpest. You want the city to run the airport. They approved polar park and that’s slowly going down. Polar park was down 7.7% this year so far compared to last year. Polar park will be a slow but guarented death. Leave Massport in charge of the airport, at least us Florida property owners have a quick way down to our second homes. If the council takes over it will become a park with a runway.

6. I don’t think the city should be running the airport either but somehow Massport, with all the resources they have, have pretty much failed at running ORH. JetBlue announced major expansions and increases at New England airports over the last couple of days. Large increases in flights out of Logan, tripling the number of seats available out of Providence, increases in service in Portland, and new service to Orlando, Fort Lauderdale, and Fort Myers out of Manchester NH which will be in direct competition to ORH and may end up being a nail in the coffin for ORH if it starts losing what little market share it has to Manchester and Providence. I already do most of my flying out of Providence anyways. Haven’t flown out of Worcester since DirectAir was here. Not because I don’t want to, but because I can’t conveniently get to where I need to go. The fact that I’m willing to drive an hour to Providence instead of the 7 or 8 minutes to ORH speaks volumes. Whatever Massport’s plan was or is for ORH, it isn’t working. And now Avelo is going to start service at Bradley…. It won’t be long before they start service in Providence and you’ll probably see both Breeze and Avelo at Logan before you ever see them at ORH.

   Enjoy the flights to Florida for now. JetBlue clearly isn’t expanding here and if they start making flight cuts I wouldn’t be surprised to see one or all ORH flights cut.

7. If the people of central Ma can’t support the current flights from Worcester that would be sad. I think Manchester airport is too far from Worcester to worry about Worcester loosing flights. Worcester to Manchester is 74 miles. Northern Ma to Manchester is 40 miles. I think JB is going after Breeze with that move, Breeze is going to start flying out of Pease airport. 44 miles away. The feds and Massport are spending a lot of money in Worcester. I think the big problem with Worcester expanding is parking. This past winter when all the flight started the airport was packed. Employees and rental car companies parked along the left side of the airport road across from the terminal to free up parking. How do you add flights with no parking?

8. The Orlando, Fort Lauderdale, and Fort Myers flights have pretty good support. The problem is that JetBlue has been here 11 years, hasn’t really expanded at all, and there’s no reason to believe they will in the future. The Delta and American flights are useless to most people as well. To get anywhere in Florida other than Miami on American requires 2 stops. The Delta flight is just too late for most connections or if there is a connecting flight to where you need to go, you aren’t getting there until 10 or 11pm. For example, I visit friends in West Palm Beach several times a year and they visit me here in Worcester. There’s no convenient way to get there and back from ORH. Flying American you have to make 2 stops, flying Delta you don’t get into West Palm Beach until 10:30 or 11pm. Flying into Fort Lauderdale requires renting a car or taking the train which can add another 90 minutes to the travel time by the time you leave the airport, get over to the train station, and make the train trip to West Palm Beach. On the other hand, I can drive down to TF Green in about an hour (take 146 to 295 and avoid Providence traffic), park in the economy lot for $14 a day, and get either a nonstop flight on JetBlue or a connecting flight on Delta, and be there in time for lunch. Because of that, I’m picking TF Green every time instead of ORH.

   As for the parking issue, if Massport is using that as an excuse as to why they can’t add more service, that’s pretty lame. Massport has been in charge for 14 years up there. If they couldn’t have foreseen that they’d need more parking up there then they must be incompetent. My understanding is that there is a plan to add more parking, but this is something they should have done 10 years ago. And that Worcester State overflow lot is just sitting there unused. They should be able to work something out at least during holiday and school vacation weeks to use that lot.

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