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FlightAware, and airlines appeared to be
returning to their normal schedules swiftly
out of area airports.
The airlines will save some money on fuel
not consumed, and many of those passengers will rebook. But now that airlines are
flying at such high load factors, rebooking
could be tough for some travelers, Herbst
said.
He said JetBlue was the airline hit hardest by Sandy, because nearly all of its flights
go through Boston or New York every day.
United was also heavily affected, Herbst
added, because Newark and Washington
Dulles are major international hubs for the
carrier.
“A lot of revenue comes in on those big
international flights, so they were hit much
harder than Delta,” he said.
Airlines were able to resume operations
sooner than cruise lines, as the ports remained closed as late as Nov. 1. The closure sent the Norwegian Gem, the Crystal
Symphony and the Caribbean Princess to
Boston, snarling plans for thousands of disembarking passengers.
SANDY
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Broadway bounces back
The New York hotel market is perennially
strong, and tourism officials were optimistic that New York, as a tourist destination at
least, would recover swiftly.
Broadway shows opened again on Oct.
31, and the subway system was running in
all boroughs, although outages still existed
below 34th Street in Manhattan and in some
outlying areas in Brooklyn and Queens.
Major icons, such as the Empire State
Building, the Metropolitan Museum of
Art and the Museum of Modern Art, were
open Oct. 31. Others, such as the Museum
of Natural History, the Top of the Rock at
Rockefeller Center and Circle Line boat
tours, were open or running Nov. 1.
One big question mark that remained
at presstime was the 9/11 Memorial. The
memorial is located in lower Manhattan,
which was beset by flooding, and video
showed waters cascading into sections of
Ground Zero. The memorial’s website said
only that it remained closed after the storm.
New York parks, barricaded after the
storm while crews cleared fallen trees and
branches and assessed other damage, were
scheduled to reopen Nov. 3, and the New
York City Marathon on Nov. 4 was a go, albeit with some adjustments, such as canceling some Friday night ceremonies. The race
was being dedicated to the city of New York
and hurricane victims and their families.
That’s not to say that there weren’t hurdles
to overcome. Portions of New York and New
Jersey remained without power late last week,
and getting around remained an issue, as residents were lined up at gas stations, and some
cabbies were exploiting the situation to charge
high flat fares or refused to go to destinations
where they might get tied up in traffic.
On the local tourism front, the Jersey Shore
was slammed by Sandy. Photos making the
rounds on social-media sites and in local
newspapers showed beaches, boardwalks and
towns in various stages of distress.
As for New York’s lodging market, which,
at about 103,000 rooms, is the fifth-largest
in the U.S., the storm will likely be a hiccup
for Q4 revenue numbers, though many in
lower Manhattan and some midtown hotels
near a damaged high-rise crane will be the
exceptions.
Mandatory evacuations caused lower
Manhattan hotels such as Hilton Worldwide’s Conrad, Starwood Hotels & Resorts’
W New York Downtown, the New York
Marriott Downtown, the Ritz-Carlton New
York Battery Park and Hyatt’s Andaz Wall
Street to shut down just prior to the storm,
while flooding and power outages affected
operations throughout the remainder of
the week.
Additionally, at least two midtown Manhattan hotels were evacuated early last week
because of storm damage to the nearby
high-rise construction crane. Starwood’s
727-room Le Parker Meridien and the 161-
Seawater floods the Ground Zero construction site in New York on Oct. 29. While city icons such as the Empire State Building and the Metropolitan Museum of Art opened two days later, the 9/11 Memorial remained closed as of late last week.
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room West 57th Street by Hilton Club were
both closed because of concerns that part
of the damaged crane would fall to the
ground. City officials evacuated West 57th
Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues
because of the safety risk presented by the
crane. Those evacuations were likely to remain in effect for at least a week.
As for overall results, though, New York,
which had an 82% occupancy rate through
September and has long been the most lucrative U.S. hotel market in terms of room
rates, is unlikely to receive much of a dent
in its fourth-quarter lodging demand, given
the number of media, federal emergency
workers and insurance adjusters to the
area, said Jan Freitag, senior vice president
at Smith Travel Research.
And while some fourth-quarter leisure
demand for New York lodging may be lost
as East Coast consumers reallocate those
dollars set aside for a weekend trip toward
home repairs and other expenses, New York
hoteliers are unlikely to have problems filling those rooms, especially as the holiday
season approaches.
“Weekend travelers may curtail their
travel, but you’ll only see that on the mar-
gins, and Friday and Saturday nights are
super-strong for New York anyway,” Freitag
said. “Manhattan is a very strong market,
no matter what.”
Bjorn Hanson, divisional dean of New
York University’s school of tourism and
hospitality management, took a more pes-
simistic view of the impact on hotels, not-
ing that the advance notice of the storm
prompted increased cancellations and few-
er stranded guests who would have stayed
extra nights. The timing of the storm was
particularly bad because late October and
early November tends to be a busy time for
business meetings, he said.
“There will be demand from insurance
companies, contractors, inspectors and
displaced residents that will generate incremental demand, but not at levels significant
when compared with cancellations and reduced travel,” Hanson said.
