ChrisNH From United States of America, joined Jun 1999, 3807 posts, RR: 2 Reply 2, posted (6 years 6 months 3 weeks 11 hours ago) and read 5648 times:
JFK has fewer flights but bigger planes than Newark. I thought the two would cancel out and they'd be nearly equal. But JFK wins by a fair bit, to my surprise. I guess EWR gets a lot of 'lawn darts' while JFK gets the A340s, the 747s, etc. EWR gets those, too, but not enough to make it close.
AF454GRU From France, joined Aug 2006, 40 posts, RR: 1 Reply 3, posted (6 years 6 months 3 weeks 11 hours ago) and read 5622 times:
IMO JFK is the busiest as it handles more airlines than EWR.
Most of int'l carriers send their birds of JFK rather than Newark or even IAD USA's capital airport...
JFK is along with LHR, CDG and FRA one of these places where carriers must
to fly to...
EWRandMDW From United States of America, joined Jul 2006, 379 posts, RR: 0 Reply 5, posted (6 years 6 months 3 weeks 6 hours ago) and read 5336 times:
Tjwgrr pointed out some statistics comparing the 2 airports. Another taken from the PANYNJ website is the 12 months ending August 2006:
JFK: 41 22/100 million passengers and 355,528 aircraft movements
EWR: 35 37/100 million passengers and 443,180 aircraft movements.
Comparing to the 2005 12-month totals this suggests the difference in passengers between the 2 airports is shrinking from about 8 million to 6 million, while the difference in total flights is rather static.
Ptugarin From United States of America, joined Sep 2006, 325 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (6 years 6 months 2 weeks 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 4989 times:
Quoting VTNYC (Reply 6): JetBlue at JFK made all the difference.
How does jetBlue's contribution to JFK movements and passenger traffic compare to that of TWA?
Bond007 From United States of America, joined Mar 2005, 5098 posts, RR: 8 Reply 9, posted (6 years 6 months 2 weeks 6 days 18 hours ago) and read 4849 times:
Out of approx. 3900 JFK arrivals in the last 7 days, 938 were Jetblue....so around 24%!
EWR had around 4400 arrivals in the same period.
Matches fairly well with other stats posted above (remember to double my numbers for total movements).
Jimbo
I'd rather be on the ground wishing I was in the air, than in the air wishing I was on the ground!
Cessna057 From United States of America, joined Sep 2006, 439 posts, RR: 2 Reply 10, posted (6 years 6 months 2 weeks 6 days 18 hours ago) and read 4838 times:
In terms of buisiness, EWR because of their runway situation and gate problems. In terms of customers, JFK is the bigger.
Hold it . . . Hold it . . . HOLD THE FREAKIN NOSE UP!!
Bond007 From United States of America, joined Mar 2005, 5098 posts, RR: 8 Reply 12, posted (6 years 6 months 2 weeks 6 days 8 hours ago) and read 4657 times:
Quoting RJpieces (Reply 11): They are both insanely busy during peak hours...
Yeah, although LGA is the busiest NYC airport in terms of flights.
There are plenty busier airports than the NY airports. None of them are even in the top ten for the USA, in terms of movements.
Jimbo
I'd rather be on the ground wishing I was in the air, than in the air wishing I was on the ground!
VTNYC From United States of America, joined Jan 2006, 277 posts, RR: 0 Reply 13, posted (6 years 6 months 2 weeks 6 days 5 hours ago) and read 4570 times:
for 2000
JFK 32 856 220
EWR 34 188 468
Jetblue was born 2/10/2000
2001 JFK inched closer but traffic fell, I guess due to 9/11
JFK 29,349,000
EWR 30,558,000
Jetblue has flown more than 1 million passenger on it's first anniv.
and in 2002 JFK went ahead
JFK 29 943 084
EWR 29 202 654
Jetblue has flown it's 5 millionth passenger on second anniv.
the lead widened in 2003
JFK 31 732 371
EWR 29 431 061
Jetblue has carried more than 10 million passengers.
EADC8 From United States of America, joined Mar 2005, 140 posts, RR: 0 Reply 14, posted (6 years 6 months 2 weeks 5 days 21 hours ago) and read 4439 times:
Quoting Bond007 (Reply 12): Yeah, although LGA is the busiest NYC airport in terms of flights.
No it's not. Click on the link in the first reply and check the stats. YTD as of August 06, LGA was second with about 31,000 fewer movements than EWR.
Edit: Unless of course you mean only New York City itself. LGA is busier, in terms of flights, than JFK. But, if you mean all three NYC airports, LGA is number 2.
Bond007 From United States of America, joined Mar 2005, 5098 posts, RR: 8 Reply 15, posted (6 years 6 months 2 weeks 5 days 21 hours ago) and read 4393 times:
Quoting EADC8 (Reply 14): No it's not. Click on the link in the first reply and check the stats.
Well, depends on the dates, and I failed to explain mine.
this month to date, LGA has more movements ...not much, somewhere like average 1100/day vs 1000 ....not much I admit.
Jimbo
I'd rather be on the ground wishing I was in the air, than in the air wishing I was on the ground!
For seven consecutive years EWR handled more passengers and flights than JFK or LGA, JFK took back the title of handling the most passengers in 2002.
Same in the 1980s, during the 1980s EWR was busier in terms of passengers and flights than JFK thanks to the success of PeoplExpress.
EWR and JFK have gone back and forth several times as NYC's busiest airport in terms of passengers handled, also keep in mind EWR is NYC's first airport opening in 1928 before LGA or Idlewild/JFK.
JFK998 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 17, posted (6 years 6 months 2 weeks 2 days 23 hours ago) and read 4136 times:
EWR is the hub for CO, while JFK has B6 which is a major carrier, B6 does not have as many flights as CO's domestic and international combined. I would love to say JFK is busier as thats my hometown airport.. but I gotta say its EWR.
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