if we didnt have the extra nearly empty inbound the loads would have been around 64%
Are most of the passengers on the Newark flight Northeasterners going to the US, rather than Americans coming here then? I haven't done a statistical analysis of this but my observation every time I use NCL is that North Eastern voices in the departure lounge outnumber others in by about 3:1? If so, the Green argument that says that regional airports actually take money OUT of a local economy seem justified. Maybe the connectivity that comes from links to hubs such as EWR, BRU, AMS etc can be economically beneficial, but it seems to me that every time a 738 takes 180 folks and their spending money to Malaga for two weeks, and doesn't bring any Spaniards here to spend theirs, that ain't doing the NE economy any good? Discuss!