It's even a little worse than that. It's not just that the cities you mention are attractive. It's that for some unexplainable reason many foreigners actively want to avoid cities that are ok with foreigner-bashing.
And just how will those smaller airports cope with a huge influx of passengers? They don’t have the hotel space, the taxis or rideshares, or any reason they would be a destination for a traveler from abroad.
It's not like BA and Lufthansa are going to switch from the big hubs anyway - they all have sorts of agreements with American domestic carriers operating from those hubs for onward travel since foreign carriers aren't allowed to operate internal flights.
It's even a little worse than that. It's not just that the cities you mention are attractive. It's that for some unexplainable reason many foreigners actively want to avoid cities that are ok with foreigner-bashing.
And just how will those smaller airports cope with a huge influx of passengers? They don’t have the hotel space, the taxis or rideshares, or any reason they would be a destination for a traveler from abroad.
It's not like BA and Lufthansa are going to switch from the big hubs anyway - they all have sorts of agreements with American domestic carriers operating from those hubs for onward travel since foreign carriers aren't allowed to operate internal flights.
'They fly to Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Philadelphia, Denver, and Newark because those cities are the destinations.'
Does *anyone* want to fly to Newark?