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Posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Tue Mar 28 05:19:25 2017, in response to Re: Port Jervis Improvement Study, posted by Henry R32 #3730 on Tue Mar 28 02:37:14 2017. PHL is more likely to be the next big airport compared to Stewart.FWIW, Norwegian Air is going to make a go of it with flights to Europe, but we'll see what happens. If there's a free connecting shuttle bus, it could work, but otherwise, and Norwegian's existing flights from JFK more accesible, not much more expensive, and go to more popular destinations (mmm, Belfast from Stewart vs London from JFK), and flights from EWR start in June, IIRC, so there's a very limited cachement zone. My co-workers in Newburgh are happy about the flights close to home and the low prices, but short of everybody in the Capital Region driving down the Thruway (and super cheap landing fees), I kinda question if this will work in the long run. As for PHL, I'm tempted to say that EWR is the second airport for Philadelphia. It's not impossible to get to their airport, but it just isn't worth it in most cases unless you're in some fringe suburb in Central Jersey. The prices aren't lower, and there's far more choice in the NYC region than at PHL. As I've noted before, peripheral airports will reduce demand at the margins for the larger airports, but they're not going to be slam dunk cases. Stewart's case is much harder because the I-84/Lower Hudson Valley corridor isn't exactly economically dynamic or well populated compared to Westchester County Airport or Islip-MacArthur. With a little effort they could pull a New Canaan and make the downtown more of a destination, and maybe people would actually want to go *to* there for the day. Cold Spring is closer and has actual train service. Try harder. :-p |
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