MAH4546 wrote:tphuang wrote:Maybe even LHR slots become available from this at a reasonable cost, who knows. Once in a decade opportunity for JetBlue here to grab London slots on the cheap.
No. That will not happen.
Any word on London flying? That would be like planning your next vacation while sitting on a deck chair on the Titanic. Not a high priority, at the moment. Businesses don't stop planning for the future just because of current operational difficulties...to do so would be somewhat of a dereliction of...
Jump to postAccording to the WN pilot on the MCO South Parking Lot shuttle at this very moment, JetBlue has defaulted on 2 payments for the South Terminal in MCO, which is totally fine with him because they are buying JetBlue and will put them out if their misery. He also said the JetBlue product will cease to...
Jump to postAnd they just said they want FLL to be a connecting hub.
Jump to postBecause they’re not facts. They’re falsehoods. A “single donut?” WTF are you even talking about. “What: Cake and blue and white donuts-just one donut each, please! (while supplies last)” So tell me Catiii WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? Crewmembers – Happy birthday! What better way to celebrate than wi...
Jump to postThere it is. A disgruntled employee and others hijacking threads when/wherever to complain about their job, the company, and their dear profit sharing. He isn’t hijacking anything Number one I would wager he has a lot more on the line in terms of Jetblue then a few blue fan boys posting from their ...
Jump to postNo. That's a company scam. 401K contributions are just that. Profit sharing is and should be separate. But there are lots of blue juicers, just happy to be here lemmings who will do and say whatever they can to prop up JB's inept leadership/management. There it is. A disgruntled employee and others...
Jump to postSteelChair wrote:Anyone want to place bets on how much longer they will survive?
They got their JFK slots for free. Nobody else was using them or wanted them...at that time. Things would be different in hindsight. Totally not true they got 75 exemption slots created for them. If my history is correct other than the international bank wasn’t jfk so slow you could go bowling midd...
Jump to postMany may not believe it or that it could of happened but here is proof the scrappy little airline made a big milestone. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200211005675/en/JetBlue-Celebrates-20th-Birthday-20-Years-Award-Winning It’s going to be an interesting time with trans Atlantic dreams. Ho...
Jump to postalright, let's get an inventory of things looking at October. BOS-ATL down to 4x daily, but all A320. Remember, they started off 5x A320 and then went to 2x A320 + 3x E90. I guess the cost is too high, so they are back to all A320s. BOS-DFW is up to 3x daily on all A320s. This is probably their hig...
Jump to postWouldn't be surprised if WN already submitted it's request for all available slots. Flyguy Me either. If WN can tap into decent schedules to LAS/DEN/MDW and maybe PHX, the vast majority of WN's network would be accessible to LGB flyers with one connection. A far better option than what B6 ever offe...
Jump to postWith this, the plane company can have one pilot in the flight deck while the other pilot becomes the senior member of the cabin crew or takes on another role as a reserve pilot, or even have a situation where the cabin crew are trained to be a first officer. What a joke. This will be the day where ...
Jump to postThis technology steering the aircraft over the runway has been in automotive for years. Probably in the future we will require pilots to do at least 5% of take-offs themselves to keep the skills / redundancy, like autoland. I think I can mostly feel if it was a manual landing, less smooth. I’m not ...
Jump to postFor a website that is so pro aviation, there sure are a lot of people that have no idea what the actual role of a pilot is and what goes on in the cockpit gate to gate. And also always ready to get rid of pilots. Because you know we don’t do anything. Smh. Some of you guys don’t even know what you ...
Jump to postThis always seems to be WN will be successful at anything and JetBlue will fail at everything. As others said it’s business. For a long time under barger they kept stuff just to keep it. Those days are gone and LGB is simply not relevant now. There was a time where it could have been but that’s gone...
Jump to postWhen B6 finally leaves and there is no competition the people of Long Beach will finally get what they deserve. High fares, cattle boarding and a bag of pretzels. At least with B6 you get a great on board product, killer fares and some great destinations. Even without competition they were very fai...
Jump to postJFK PHX had a daylight flight many years ago To answer your question, Im sure they lose customers because of a garbage schedule to places like DEN and PHX. The once a day redeye only works when they are the only game in town: SMF RNO etc. If you fly nonstop, you get a redeye In places with plenty o...
Jump to postThere was an update from an airline pilot central Guy. IAD is now the 2nd most profitable hub. Planning to grow major there. Currently @270 dep a day, planned to go to 450+ dep a day with 7 banks. Because of this planning a major upgrade to terminal and facilities now. Said he is very excited about...
Jump to postThere was an update from an airline pilot central Guy. IAD is now the 2nd most profitable hub. Planning to grow major there. Currently @270 dep a day, planned to go to 450+ dep a day with 7 banks. Because of this planning a major upgrade to terminal and facilities now. Said he is very excited about...
Jump to postThere was an update from an airline pilot central Guy. IAD is now the 2nd most profitable hub. Planning to grow major there. Currently @270 dep a day, planned to go to 450+ dep a day with 7 banks. Because of this planning a major upgrade to terminal and facilities now. Said he is very excited about ...
Jump to postNot in the next couple of years. But xlr should allow them to do sao paulo. Not just from FLL but I could see JFK also. No, sorry, you won’t profitably make work either work with a A321. These need big capacity airliners. Doesn’t matter that they have the range, they don’t have the economics. As I ...
Jump to postNot sure, but it’s either FLL or nothing. I can’t imagine JetBlue going to deep Brazil though. Maybe Belem or Recife, which an A320neo can do (and indeed Azul flies FLL-BEL/REC with the A320neo), but certainly not São Paulo. Not in the next couple of years. But xlr should allow them to do sao paulo...
Jump to postFlyinRabbit88 wrote:Anyone else heard that Jetblue has recently bought at least 4 (ex Thomas Cook) A321s ?
Wonderful to see the A321 at BUR. I flew JFK-BUR last year just after Christmas, and there must have been so much moaning and groaning about the A320 product that the crew made an announcement something along the lines of "folks, we are so sorry, but this plane is not the same one that flies t...
Jump to postThere is nothing stopping B6 from announcing routes from Boston to Canada this afternoon. Same with FLL to Canada. Nada. Giddy up. Fill yer boots. The issue is that B6 is whining about WS having 8 LGA slots which are 100% used to operate to YYZ, and have been for about 7 years, perhaps longer. WS b...
Jump to postThey don’t want to go to Canada. They are playing the game to prevent Delta from using Westjets slots. Delta isn't going to be "using" WS's LGA slots. All of them will continue to be used by WS, with WS iron, on LGA-YYZ. Who will be partners with Westjet. It’s not just JetBlue that has an...
Jump to postThey don’t want to go to Canada. They are playing the game to prevent Delta from using Westjets slots.
Jump to postWhy are they sending core 321's on transcons is beyond me. Mint it up and get it together B6. Have any of you noticed inconsistencies in catering on your flights by the way? Just curious. Yup. They are only catered on certain flights. Some exec thought this was a good idea. (SAVE MONEY at all costs...
Jump to postSo they just downgraded their higher fare class and left the lowest level on as is? They now have included free cancellation, Changes, SDC and Standby as part of their highest fare class + early boarding and even more speed in exchange for 1 free checked bags. For most business travellers, this is ...
Jump to postHaha....what's the issue with the A220 in these markets? The A320 is too much plane (at least given B6's current fare structure / FLL network). They aren’t big enough. Those are markets that require a larger, more dense plane e.g. A320, B737. Flying an A220 on FLL-POS would be like flying them on J...
Jump to postWho wouldn’t want LHR slots? But to acquire enough slots to develop a meaningful LHR schedule will be prohibitively and unrealistically expensive until (if), the third runway is built, and even then, they won’t come cheap or be handed out like Bed Bath and Beyond 20% off coupons. Here we go again w...
Jump to postThis was posted in the Thomas Cook bankruptcy thread but, IMHO, deserves a separate mention after much speculation this was a JetBlue opportunity to enter London. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-thomas-cook-grp-slots/easyjet-buys-thomas-cook-airport-slots-at-gatwick-and-bristol-for-46-million-id...
Jump to postI wonder why it is thought here on airliners.net that JetBlue has no plan for Europe? I think many people buy into what or how they think things should be. I may not be a fan of the management team right now but I doubt very very much the don’t have an exact idea of where they are going and how they...
Jump to postI was just pointing out how much Boston has grown already. They have been steadily running at least 170 flights a day since September. They are easily going to hit peak 200 in the next year and half. There is no question JFK is still larger than boston at the moment with all the a321s and long rang...
Jump to postYou are right, most of the cities I listed do see 1 flight a day from legacy. My point is more that A220-300 (with it's much lower cost for B6) is a better fit for these markets than 737/a320 that legacy airline would be using. As an aside. Just taking a look at B6 departures at its top focus citie...
Jump to postWhats to stop Jetblue from re-allocating the flights to say, run a focus city out of New Orleans. MSY-JFK, BOS, FLL (existing) + LGA, HOU, ATL, DFW, MCO, SFO, DEN, AUS, ORD, CUN. B6 already moved its Houston operations over to IAH on Sunday. Most of the other places you mentioned such as LGA, ATL, ...
Jump to postWould JetBlue/Volaris launch Deep South American routes to station aircraft? P=zero on JetBlue operating that way. They would have a Brazilian subsidiary with a separate pilot/FA seniority list and local staff. They won't operate with U.S. staff, wages, and labor rules in Brazil. Yeah not like that...
Jump to postThis will really upset those trying to push the narrative Alaska is struggling and that they don’t know what they’re doing. Especially when they realize that by the end of December AS will have paid off 75% of the $2B that was borrowed to purchase VX. And gets them even closer to 100% Paid off and ...
Jump to postTo late to edit, but anyone with half a brain knows that it takes a lot more than just the 'right' sized airplane to make a route work. Just because you have, in this case, an XLR, doesnt necessarily mean the airline in question (and it can be any airline, not just B6) can make a route work. It tak...
Jump to postThese are just funny stuff. A321xlr has lower total cost per seat than 787-8 and a330neo according to leeham analysis. And they were comparing configuration with similar ratio of premium to economy cabin size. And I get to this thread and somehow it can't compete with wide-bodies. If anything, hist...
Jump to postCorrect. Even if the A321 has a range, the market demographics aren’t there. You don’t fly a 160-180 seat A321 in these markets. It’s never going to work, and JetBlue won’t do it. If JetBlue wants to try it’s hand out, needs widebodies. So if the XLR has the range and performance why would they nee...
Jump to postB6 doesnt have the right plane for deep south America. Not now and nothing in the B6 order books is the right plane. Whether or not the XLR can make it that far is irrelevant. Correct. Even if the A321 has a range, the market demographics aren’t there. You don’t fly a 160-180 seat A321 in these mar...
Jump to postThe B6 FLL-PUJ is only surprising because of the time of year it’s happening. I also don’t think it’s entirely just the PUJ end as they haven’t done similar suspensions from BOS/JFK. I also don’t know of any other carrier that flies FLL/MIA-PUJ suspending flights outright. It was just two or so wee...
Jump to postOh here we go with the typical b6 bash team. They are closing a station that does not work. What is the big deal?
Would we all prefer they stay or use the planes in places that make money. Sometimes you need to change things. It’s an airline they all do this.
Why is ending an underperforming route in a market where all the peers are also pulling down capacity indicative of a management team that’s adrift? Seems more indicative of a management team that it decisive in redeploying assets to make profits. Ending a lot of markets as of late. Not good. Hope ...
Jump to postJFK is going to be the biggest airport for these connections and transferring between T1 and T5 will be a nightmare. Plus, most people still don't know how to use the Airtrain. Folks will wind up at Lefferts BLVD before they realize they got on the wrong train. DY on time record is doesnt leave muc...
Jump to postso your assuming? :roll: Even if it did include JV's, isnt that the whole point of establishing JV's in the first place? Job well done in Boston DL. And they accomplished just that in a very short order of time. How much more will they accomplish in BOS? What other metrics will they be #1 in BOS? D...
Jump to postSeptember monthly report is out. http://blueir.investproductions.com/investor-relations/financial-information/traffic-releases/10-10-2019 Looks like the RASM is basically in the middle of the rather poor revised guidance. Not a great quarter. Well at least the OTP was good for one month. At 82%, th...
Jump to postBOS - going well, 'We'll be the leading carrier by revenue in BOS in 2020' BOS led all hubs in Q3 for revenue growth (up 24%) with margins up 5 points. Coastal hubs had 10% revenue growth while core hubs grew 6%. I'm assuming they are including all their JV flying also. Certainly not on their own m...
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