CasInterest From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 3336 posts, RR: 1 Reply 1, posted (6 years 11 months 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 1936 times:
I have no clue as to the validity of the claim...
I highly doubt it as they announced BOS on Thursday, and would have probably done it then...
However, it would make sense, to route RDU, CLT, BNA and others through MCO to get to the carribean. I don't know how far out that is currently in B6's plans, but the possibilites are there with a few carribean additions to MCO.
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ERJ170 From United States of America, joined Apr 2004, 6636 posts, RR: 19 Reply 2, posted (6 years 11 months 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 1914 times:
CTL and RDU are the only upper East Coast (Non-florida) destnations without connecting or direct service to Florida on jetBlue. Seems like a good idea, although I would have thought FLL (only on carrier 3x daily on RJ). But RDUAA did mention that an MCO route could be in the future. We will have to see. I don't understand where the announcment for CLT service is.. no BOS, no MCO rumors.. very odd..
JetBluefan1 From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 2791 posts, RR: 15 Reply 3, posted (6 years 11 months 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 1891 times:
I honestly would be surprised to see this. BOS service was announced on Thursday, so I don't know why they wouldn't have announced it then too.
Doesn't WN fly RDU-MCO? We all know that B6 and WN don't like to compete head-to-head.
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CasInterest From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 3336 posts, RR: 1 Reply 5, posted (6 years 11 months 1 day ago) and read 1821 times:
Quoting JetBluefan1 (Reply 3): Doesn't WN fly RDU-MCO? We all know that B6 and WN don't like to compete head-to-head.
I wouldn't see it as a direct competition if Jetblue's motivation was for the international travel to the carribean.
Sure the traffic to the parks would be great, but I think Jetblue could make it work as a southern access to the carribean. Not many people out of RDU are going to look favorably on flying into JFK to get to the carribean.
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JetBluefan1 From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 2791 posts, RR: 15 Reply 9, posted (6 years 11 months 1 day ago) and read 1773 times:
Quoting CasInterest (Reply 5): I wouldn't see it as a direct competition if Jetblue's motivation was for the international travel to the carribean.
Sure the traffic to the parks would be great, but I think Jetblue could make it work as a southern access to the carribean. Not many people out of RDU are going to look favorably on flying into JFK to get to the carribean.
That's a very good point. If the flight is timed well to connect with the BQN and SJU flights (and priced correctly), then this could possibly work out rather nicely. However, I'm not sure how large the market is from RDU to PR.
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Midway2airtran From United States of America, joined Jul 2003, 864 posts, RR: 2 Reply 12, posted (6 years 11 months 23 hours ago) and read 1739 times:
I'm a little suprised at JetBlue attempting service, but the RDU-MCO route is a good one and still has a void in service (despite WN's service) since Midway's demise. It actually sounds like a perfect match IMO as long as it fits B6's agenda.
This is all granted that the rumor proves true.
Quoting ERJ170 (Reply 6): I wish B6 would apply for CUN service from Raleigh-Durham.. no one else wants to do it..
Midway never got back to it, plus it gives Charter companys a opportunity in the RDU market
MAH4546 From Sweden, joined Jan 2001, 31155 posts, RR: 76 Reply 15, posted (6 years 11 months 23 hours ago) and read 1724 times:
Quoting MCOflyer (Reply 14): MCO has big expansions plans too from what I hear. Also I hear MCO-RDU will be more than 2x daily.
There are big expansion plans at MCO indeed, including a possible crew base, however the focus of Florida expansion will soon shift back to South Florida. SJU/BQN were supposed to launch from FLL, but lack of gate space and jetBlue's desire to expand in the region lead to the flights launching from MCO. Not a dumb move, of course, since Orlando-Puerto Rico is a big market and the flights do well.
MCOflyer From United States of America, joined Jun 2006, 8556 posts, RR: 14 Reply 16, posted (6 years 11 months 23 hours ago) and read 1698 times:
I think the focus will soon shift to both. Right now FLL is at maxinums. So MCO is the logial choice. I do believe if FLL builds another runway, FLL will see big expansion by B6.
InTheSky74 From United States of America, joined Sep 2005, 546 posts, RR: 0 Reply 18, posted (6 years 11 months 22 hours ago) and read 1652 times:
I've heard rumors of CO/NW moving to Delta's terminal (B), or Southwest moving to open gates in the C terminal.
If that happened, it would open up several new gates for JetBlue. They already have to operate out of two concourses - which costs a lot for an airline to do.
JetBluefan1 From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 2791 posts, RR: 15 Reply 19, posted (6 years 11 months 22 hours ago) and read 1627 times:
Quoting InTheSky74 (Reply 18): They already have to operate out of two concourses - which costs a lot for an airline to do.
I don't think so...at least not in this case. There's only one ticket counter and the gate agents can easily shift between the two concourses as they are within steps of each other. I'm sure it's not the most convenient set-up, but I don't think it costs them "a lot".
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ERJ170 From United States of America, joined Apr 2004, 6636 posts, RR: 19 Reply 22, posted (6 years 11 months 21 hours ago) and read 1583 times:
Another thing...
Believe it or not, RDU has taken a big hit in the number of seats available from last year at this same time. I think it's about a 15-20% drop in seats. And it has showed because with an 8% increase in passengers last year, passenger count so far this year have dropped about 5% due to lack of available flights/seats. Southwest had it right when it said RDU was below capacity and was named one of the airports that needed extra flights. So there is room for growth at RDU. The popn of the area is growing in one direction, and hopefully we will see a shift and see some larger aircraft scheduled (a la Delta) along with new flights (a la jetBlue) and hopefully at least one more carrier added this year (a la Frontier please?!?!?!?!?)...
Cltguy From United States of America, joined Sep 2004, 596 posts, RR: 0 Reply 23, posted (6 years 10 months 4 weeks 23 hours ago) and read 1369 times:
Quoting ERJ170 (Reply 2): I don't understand where the announcment for CLT service is.. no BOS, no MCO rumors.. very odd..
I don't think that jetBlue wants to try and compete with USAirways 9 daliy nonstops on the CLT-BOS route...all on mainline aircraft (A319/A320 and B737/757) . A lot of that is BofA traffic since they have large operations in Boston. jetBlue would not be able to match that level of service. Whereas at RDU they would easily be able to match most anything the other airlines would try and throw at them.
Same with MCO where USAirways has 8 dailys all on B757. That level of service would be hard for jetBlue to compete with.
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