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1. NYC-XXX
   >>search
   >>review results
   >>back arrow
   EWR-XXX
   >>search
   >>review results

   …this is going to become very annoying very quickly.

2. @Tony google flights makes that easy.

   And speaking of google flights, they recently have been including EWR flights in default “XXX to PHL” searches, which I find odd and annoying. Glitch? Or United trying to get more of the central NJ market?

3. Unless you are familiar with local geography, it is confusing when a city’s airport is in a different state. Cincinnati, OH’s airport is in Kentucky (CVG). It would be interesting to know how dropping EWR from NYC searches will affect the usage of EWR and the airlines based there.

   @Actual Statistician, EWR/JFK transfers are bad but maybe not as bad as NRT/HND transfers for flights connecting in TYO especially during Covid when entering Japan was essentially prohibited.

4. That is disappointing as EWR is as easy to get to from much of the NYC area as JFK is. As mentioned above this just adds another search layer to NYC fare searches. I smell a DL plot.

5. EWR has been the ‘best’ New York airport to fly into for YEARS. Great hotel prices, easy public transportation. While I understand the possible confusion when researching flights, it’s a shame that people will be forced into LGA and JFK, where getting anywhere is a huge PITA and finding decent hotels at a good price difficult.

6. New Jersey EWR is a 3rd world toilet.

7. 20 years ago, I worked at EWR. It was hilarious how passengers would complain to me about the lack of ____(fill in the blank) and that “New York” airport was lacking. I’d tell them they were in Newark, NJ and some of them didn’t believe me. It was hilarious because back then there were no smart phones so they couldn’t look at a map.

8. I don’t see how this is good for EWR. It’s also not good for consumers(unless this somehow drops demand and results in better prices?). EWR is transit connected, unlike LGA. Now you need to make multiple searches to find all of the applicable results

9. If this is applied across the board in online travel agencies, not only is it bad for EWR, but it’s particularly bad for United.

   My working theory on Southwest’s failure in Newark is that Southwest is much stronger in selling tickets to passengers travelling *to* New York than it is in selling tickets to passengers travelling *from* New York. And given that Southwest generally only sells its tickets via its own website and that its website requires you to choose the specific airports you want from a prepopulated list, I suspect that its non-New York customers who wanted to travel to New York generally typed “New York” into Southwest.com, and found themselves selecting LGA, without even realizing that EWR was another viable option; after all, if you don’t know the area, you could reasonably assume that “Newark” is somewhere else. As a result, I suspect Southwest’s EWR flights ended up serving primarily those who specifically wanted to travel to EWR, not people looking for the New York area more generally, and didn’t get the traffic that they needed to survive.

   If searches for “NYC” on Concur and other corporate booking platforms no longer encompass EWR, the same could happen to United’s flights; customers who do not specifically look for flights to Newark will find themselves presented only with options to JFK and LGA, and most casual travelers will not realize that they need to conduct a second search for a full picture of their options.

10. JFK is only for NYC and Long Island, not transportation friendly.

    EWR is connected to Amtrak, NJ Transit. You can also take PATH (subway) to World Trade Center and Midtown Manhattan at Newark Penn Station.

    EWR is not only convenient for people living in New Jersey and Manhattan.
    And It’s also more convenient to upstate New York and Connecticut through Amtrak than JFK and LGA.

    Personally, I avoid JFK at all costs, not mentioning countless rats running everywhere in JFK.
    LGA is okay with M60 and Q70.

11. Eliminating EWR from the NYC search makes no sense to me — or anyone else, I suppose. Do we know the reasons for this change?

12. Hah, this very morning I realized the flight booking problem I’d had last night was that Amex Travel had not included Newark in my search results. Behind in blog reading I guess.
    The monorail from JFK to Jamaica and then the subway or the LIRR to Manhattan is fine, easier (and I think still cheaper) than similar from Newark to Manhattan.

13. Interesting. The NY TRACON. the air traffic control facility that controls all NYC area airports and some in Long Island, is currently in the middle of a fight to keep the EWR sector in the building. The FAA has been trying to strong arm that sector into moving to Philly, and basically the only thing stopping them right now is that no current controllers from the EWR area are volunteering to move. This seems connected

14. I wish the Jets and Giants followed this trend. Stop crediting New York for stuff they don’t have