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Saw this everywhere this past week??
Already hurt by pandemic, Worcester Airport suffers another blow in agreement between @JetBlue and @AmericanAir.@FlyOrh @CommonTalkPod@WorcesterSun @thisweekinWoohttps://t.co/2O8jlorJF1 pic.twitter.com/7YzeayTL80
— The016 (@InThe016) January 18, 2021
The truth is this flight was a loser for Worcester flying out first thing in the morning (6am) and not returning to past 11PM. We believe the loads were under 60% and routes do not last at these loads. Nor do we want them!!
In order to make this a successful route, we needed a mid-day turn. Maybe said this 1000 times on the blog??? We would not want this route back with this schedule. It will just fail again and be another black eye for ORH.
Nor do we want want the one American flight to their hub in Philadelphia (with planes that could not handle CAT III), nor do we want the one Delta flight to their hub in Detroit (should have been Atlanta). The times were bad and again tough to make a flight to a legacy hub with only one flight per day. By the way, these loads were never good either.
These three flights by legacy carriers to their hubs seemed to have started to curry favor with Massport, then to build Worcester Airport into a true reliever airport for Boston. More a public relations move to have these carriers listed on the website as serving Worcester, then actually trying to build service.
On the other hand JetBlue did well for over 5 years with daily flights to Fort Lauderdale and Orlando always over 80% with the unreliable Embraer 190 (100 seats) and not the best schedule. We believe JetBlue will be back with these flights in 2021, especially with their new Airbus that is much more fuel efficient, realiable and will have lower prices with 130 seats..
We predict by the fall these two flights to Florida will be back!!!!
** Footnote: Do not get us wrong we would love to have the NYC flight back, but only if there are two flights per day. One flight simply can not succeed.
.@JetBlue Says Suspension of Service at #Worcester Regional Airport Isn't Reflective of the Airlines' Plans in the Future https://t.co/v0HGJEYhvJ @AnaBottary @OliviaLemmonTV @SheriffLew @Massport @InThe016 @CommonTalkPod @FlyOrh @FlyWorcester
— Spectrum News 1 Worcester (@SpecNews1Worc) January 20, 2021
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