Monday, February 25, 2008

Diversions

As a result of bad weather along the east coast last friday Syracuse saw 5 diversions. These were a Northwest A333-300 routing Amsterdam-Boston, an Alaska Airlines 737-800 Seattle-Boston, a United 757-200 Los Angeles-Boston, A Continental 737-300 Cleveland-Boston and a Continental 737-300 Houston-Boston (it went onto Newark then up to Boston)

Monday, February 11, 2008

New York City Area

Service between and the three main New York City area Airports (JFK, EWR, and LGA) has changed a lot over the last 15 years. Before Jetblue started flying the SYR-JFK route it was serviced by 3-4 American eagle saab 340 flights, EWR was serviced by 4-5 Continental Express ATR-42 flights, and LGA by a mixture of US Airways mainline and express flights with around 8 frequencies.
Nowadays JFK is served by 4 Jetblue flights (2 A320 and 2 E-190) and Delta Connection's 3 CRJ/E-145 flights, EWR by 4 COEX E-145/E135 flights, and LGA by a US Airways Express mixture of Dash-8, CRJ, and Saab 340's operating an average of 8 flights a day. What this means that JFK has gone from dead last in terms of capacity to number one (LGA is #2 and EWR #3) with it also being the only NYC airport to have 2 carriers flying to it from SYR.