JetBlue CEO Says LaGuardia Is Too Expensive to Fly From — We Built the Empire State Building in 410 Days But New Gates Take a Decade

JetBlue CEO Says LaGuardia Is Too Expensive to Fly From — We Built the Empire State Building in 410 Days But New Gates Take a Decade

JetBlue’s CEO says New York LaGuardia is now simply too expensive to operate from after the airport’s stunning rebuild—an admission that should worry anyone who cares about cheap fares and real competition. The problem isn’t that airports are getting nicer; it’s that America builds infrastructure slowly and at enormous cost, then forces airlines to absorb it through higher per-passenger fees that low fare carriers can’t make work.