Flying can get expensive fairly quickly. One major source of this is landing fees; at heavily congested airports the price to get a new slot, or buy someone ou

Flying can get expensive fairly quickly. One major source of this is landing fees; at heavily congested airports the price to get a new slot, or buy someone out of an existing one, is quite high because of a lack of space and alternatives. Most of the airports in the Northeast are chronically congested, to the point where I believe DCA and all the New York area airports have caps on flight movements. And there's no 'cheap' airport in the NYC area either, which is a common tactic for Ryanair et al (fly into an airport over 50 miles away for the cheaper landing fees, which means cheaper tickets, but also probably means the passenger is making up the difference getting to their final destination.)