Business people and entrepreneurs are told to go to where their potential investors and customers are. Often, they are in cities like Boston and New York.

Though hopping on a plane and flying right to these places seems easy enough, it’s not so simple when you live in New Brunswick.

Right now, none of the province’s three major airports offer any direct flights to the United States. If you want to fly south of the border, you need to have a layover in either Halifax, Toronto or Montreal, places often in the opposite direction of where you’re going.

“There’s just a lot head scratching,” says Yves Boudreau, CEO of Moncton-based Alongside. “Even going to Boston for something, there’s a bunch of times where it took longer to fly to Boston than it would have taken to drive based on the number of layovers and flight schedule options.” . . . 

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