gokeefe wrote: ↑Tue Aug 06, 2019 8:58 pm The airlines are not going to be looking forward to trying to compete with this. This service offerring could fundamentally end business travel by air between Washington and New York.Ironically, I'll be flying from IAD to EWR this friday night, but I'll be connecting from a MSP flight. The choices were ORD or IAD, IAD has the punch of being able to Uber it to Union and get the next Amtrak out, if things go really bad. ORD? I'm stuck in Chicago with no options.
The airlines would probably rather the short haul goes to rail (IIRC, Crandall when he was at AA said as much). There's no way it's economic to run a 737 between DC and Newark. The thing's not even to altitude by the time it's ready to drop into EWR. Forget fuel costs, that's hell on the engines and the rest of the plane.
Why I can't get a direct flight in the evening from MSP to EWR is beyond me.