New York airports lose 82% of budget seats (thetravel.com)
Budget airline seat capacity at Newark, LaGuardia and JFK has fallen 81.6%, from 1.2 million monthly seats to 224,000, after Spirit Airlines collapsed in May and Frontier withdrew from JFK. American Airlines added more than 315,000 monthly seats at LGA and JFK, up about 24.7% at LaGuardia. Trenton gained 42.1% in seats, Stewart 18.7%, Allentown 13.6% and New Haven 7.0% as Allegiant, Breeze, Frontier and Avelo expanded.
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The four alternative airports in TheTravel's table add up to only about 57,000 extra monthly seats, against roughly 976,000 budget seats lost at EWR, LGA and JFK, so most of that capacity either went to legacy carriers like American or disappeared rather than moving to Trenton or Stewart. One partial backfill at LaGuardia: JetBlue won Spirit's 22 LGA slots at auction, and the FAA approved the transfer on Oct. 8 on condition that JetBlue can't lease or trade them until after April 2028. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/10/08/2026-20664/petition-for-exemption-of-the-terms-of-the-order-limiting-scheduled-operations-at-laguardia-airport