Delta has just dropped its shortest short-haul flight from New York’s LaGuardia Airport, a 101-mile hop to Hartford’s Bradley International Airport.
Surprisingly, it’s not LaGuardia’s shortest flight; that honor belongs to an American Airlines flight to Philadelphia which clocks in at 95 miles.
The Delta route, which started in 2022 at three times a day was cut back to one some time ago, and will end October 6, to be replaced by a more popular and, Delta hopes, profitable route.
LaGuardia operates under tight restrictions, with ‘slots,’ representing a take-off or landing, rationed and valuable. Airlines that own them but don’t use them can see them re-allocated to a competitor. That situation occasionally results in airlines operating unwanted routes in order to ‘slot squat’ until they have better use for them.
Image: Delta’s new Terminal C at LaGuardia
