Because [[JFK Airport|JFK]] is more popular, it is seen as a less eccentric choice. **Flying to JFK is the equivalent of buying an IBM mainframe in 1978: an easy default**. The great thing about making the ‘default’ choice is that it feels like not making a decision at all, which is what businesspeople and public sector employees tend to really like doing – because every time you don’t visibly make a decision, you’ve ducked a bullet. **Newark requires a rational justification: ‘Why is my flight going to Newark; why not JFK?’ By contrast, the sentence, ‘I’ve booked you a flight to JFK’, rarely meets with the question, ‘Why JFK? What’s wrong with Newark?’** --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[making-decisions]] , [[incentives]] , [[psycho-logic]] , [[defensive-decision-making]] **Source** -- [[202407221554 - B - Alchemy]]