Looks like JetBlue now has a 2nd permanent LHR slot pair of its own. https://paxex.aero/jetblue-heathrow-slots-2023/ I think this could mean B6 will be able to use the leased slot pair from QR to continue BOS-LHR and add another daily JFK-LHR flight. This is good, we are likely to see 4x jfk to Lon...
Jump to postFlew JetBlue for the first time since I moved to Jersey a couple of years ago. Surprisingly, the flight was ahead of time into ewr. Was finally able to test out the 32m. Thought ife was pretty good. Really appreciated that I had wifi the whole flight. A big boost to have wifi over the ocean. The sea...
Jump to postsomehow, JetBlue is still logging the same block hours as they did 3 years ago and NK is scheduling in for 15 to 20% additional block hours. I do wonder why JetBlue is just incapable of scheduling more flight times in. Look at B6’s main hubs… B6 can barely operate their current block hours reliably...
Jump to postsomehow, JetBlue is still logging the same block hours as they did 3 years ago and NK is scheduling in for 15 to 20% additional block hours. I do wonder why JetBlue is just incapable of scheduling more flight times in.
Jump to posthttps://airlineweekly.com/2022/10/jetblue-warns-of-possible-air-traffic-control-flight-disruptions-this-winter/?utm_content=225851286&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&hss_channel=tw-3027034882 interesting. The aircraft delivery issues from Airbus is slowing down JetBlue growth. On to...
Jump to postLooks like they finally returned to being profitable, still worse than their competitors though. Without being able to ramp up their schedule, the CASM-ex looks not great.
https://otp.investis.com/clients/us/jet ... wsid=86201
I always thought JFK-UIO made sense if they can get HD aircraft for that role. Maybe they are waiting for another pip or if they add a first class?
IIRC, there is no open skies between US and Ecuador. As such, there is a limit on the frequency that can be offered between the 2 countries.
i'd prefer ORY over CDG. AF/DL may be dominating CDG too much.
Jump to postyes, need better leadership. Right people driving B6/NK merger would go a long way. I don't know if they need to add more cities when a merger with NK would add all those places.
Jump to postlooks like this is his replacement
https://otp.investis.com/clients/us/jet ... wsid=86050
Sadly everything now between USA and China are political matters, as you mentioned C919 is not a threat to Boeing or Airbus, no reason for US not to do the certification for C919 other then the political reasons. I doubt the C919 is really that far below the standard or it will suddenly fallen from...
Jump to postThat isn’t what the article says. It says: So it’s a pie in the sky aspiration, not really something that is on any roadmap at the moment… As was London at one time. All this article is pointing out is JetBlue looking a a map and thinking what it would like to do with its planes. Nothing wrong with...
Jump to postas i said a while back, JetBlue will fly to sub-sahara Africa that have basically been DL monopolies up to this point. There are probably 3 or 4 places in West Africa that will be possible with A321XLR
https://skift.com/2022/09/20/jetblues-l ... l-flights/
new filing out this morning https://otp.tools.investis.com/generic/sec/sec-show.aspx?ipage=16083292&Cik=0001158463&Type=PDF JetBlue Airways Corporation ("JetBlue" or "the Company") announced today an operational and financial update of its expected third quarter 2022 resu...
Jump to postWithout insider sources, I don't think we will know for a while how committed they are to NEA. I think they may be okay with certain part of NEA downgraded to get NK merger through, but not the entire deal abandoned.
Jump to postThis interesting, I wonder how big mia will get post merger. I can’t imagine B6 not taking advantage of growing mia akin to what they are doing in ewr to supplement jfk https://www.miamitodaynews.com/2022/09/13/miami-international-airport-wants-jetblue-latin-america-routes/ In the region, JetBlue’s...
Jump to postWhile the likelihood of American airplane and engines being denied permanently to China is not that high, it's probably higher than what Chinese government and even the airlines themselves are comfortable with. Back in 1999, export control were put on Playstation 2 sales to China, because the chips ...
Jump to postHave you looked at the bill of materials in the C919? CFM engines, LEAP-1C https://www.safran-group.com/products-services/leap-1c-new-generation-engine-single-aisle-commercial-jets SAFRAN nacelles https://www.safran-group.com/products-services/comac-c919-nacelles Honeywell for APU, some cockpit (co...
Jump to postFor Chinese, this is not a commercial project .. it's their moonshot ... ready to sink treasure to become self-sufficient no matter what the cost. Basically this. China has learned its lesson with semiconductors and SWIFT. The C919 (and related projects) is first and foremost an attempt to sanction...
Jump to postWell, at least B6 still has QR. At this pace, all its partners are going to be OW airlines.
Jump to postCan you reconcile your statement that B6 will do well with Mint when entering markets results in substantial deterioration of yields, which don’t always recover? B6’s costs are higher than AS/HA/WN/NK/F9 to varying degrees. How do they compete against those carriers in new markets out of LAX if the...
Jump to postCan you reconcile your statement that B6 will do well with Mint when entering markets results in substantial deterioration of yields, which don’t always recover? B6’s costs are higher than AS/HA/WN/NK/F9 to varying degrees. How do they compete against those carriers in new markets out of LAX if the...
Jump to postB6 will do fine on any mint route out of LAX. It will fly to HNL from there whether other airlines like it or not. I frankly don't see how HI is a more challenging market than TATL for a non-legacy airline. WN has never been able to compete in the premium segment. It's pointless to compare them to ...
Jump to postIf JetBlue dips into widebody market like nma, then lax to Tokyo and london should be high on their list. Interestingly, I have heard rumors about JetBlue and widebodies more than once. I keep hearing on Twitter that they are interested in 330s (not sure if used ceos or new neos). But I am on the f...
Jump to postHere is where focusing on local market share by revenue is far more important than enplanement. People pick airline loyalties based on the amount of money they spend on that airline. They are also more likely to pick airlines based on long distance business class seats rather than short flights to P...
Jump to postNo disagreement there but from B6s Mgt perspective they are looking at the opportunity because of the slightly shorter stage length than a mint transcon but with higher J class premium than said transcon, that’s what has been relayed by them openly the last 18 months or so. I previously said that H...
Jump to postB6 will do fine on any mint route out of LAX. It will fly to HNL from there whether other airlines like it or not. I frankly don't see how HI is a more challenging market than TATL for a non-legacy airline. WN has never been able to compete in the premium segment. It's pointless to compare them to B6.
Jump to postI would guess this is temporary for the London route. However, it also wouldn't be a surprise if they start flying to places like Manchester without hot meals in Y class. Same with LAX-HNL in the future.
Jump to postI wonder if they are using the LD for the jfk-lgw route to experiment with the LD capabilities on how they can deploy it for other etops flight. IE LD would be a great use for jfk-kef using Lon as a redispatch alt, if they can use it for lgw, then they know it can work for places like jfk/bos-kef/o...
Jump to postThe points guy has made an article saying that JetBlue has now scheduled the 321NEO LD (3NS) with mint (16 seats) on its JFK-LGW from Oct 29th- Dec 18th on the daily flight. Article goes on to say B6 expects this fleet to be WTOPS certified within the next few weeks also. A interesting move by B6 b...
Jump to postI scrolled through this thread and didn't see any revenue data on EWR, saw some on SFO. On the other hand though, I don't see revenue share as that meaningful of a metric of performance IMO. You can capture a ton of revenue while being wildly unprofitable. RASM by route is useful. here is from Q3 o...
Jump to postI posted them earlier in this thread on both EWR and SFO. They had really good numbers out of both in terms of capturing revenue from local market. All the numbers are on this thread. I post route RASM and revenue by local market share. It's quite discouraging why I put numbers and they just get di...
Jump to postDoes anyone have stats to backup the idea that B6 did not do well at EWR? I have seen and heard the opposite from within and B6 does not open full-on bases on a whim. I keep pointing that out but some people just don’t want to see that. JetBlue is doing fine at EWR in my 11 years here EWR is the on...
Jump to postEWR-LAX is doing great. What are you talking about? They added a bunch of routes when they had too many crewmembers and aircraft sitting around doing nothing. Do you want to go to DOT website and take a look at their operational performance from end of 2020 to Spring of 2021, when these routes were...
Jump to postSo, you’re saying flights that didn’t do well were cut along with some flights that did great because they need to pick up slots that they don’t have crews to operate, but they’ll be able to rapidly grow in markets they just abandoned by pulling NK aircraft and crews from existing bases and stickin...
Jump to postWhy did they launch and start EWR-SFO if they don’t have enough Mint aircraft? it was launched when demand on existing mint routes were way down. As an example, BOS-SFO was down to a couple of flights a day across all carriers in first half of 2021. Now, B6 is back to flying 6 times a day (which is...
Jump to postI meant to type “AUS-LAX” not EWR-LAX. Though they’ve dumped EWR-SFO too which I would put in the same category as EWR-AUS and LAX-AUS. Many on here said this wasn’t wise and it seems to have turned out to be the case. They stopped EWR-SFO because they don't have enough mint aircraft. It will come ...
Jump to postI too have questioned whether B6 will really have all of NK's employees and passengers. Seems they're betting a lot on something that isn't guaranteed I feel like I am about to get an aneurysm listening to some of these lazy responses just to appeal to ones own bash B6 wagon. They are short staffed...
Jump to postThey cannot replace those E90s fast enough. If merger with NK goes through, the A319CEOs can help with E90 replacement. Aside from that, A220 can replace E90s. They really need to start putting FC seats on these aircraft. I see them running these 200 seat aircraft on 5 to 6 hour flights and they was...
Jump to postThey don't have the staff to fly these routes (some of them pretty basic) all the way past Summer 2023??? Acquiring NK doesn't really solve the staffing issue given NK is already staffed incredibly lean. Two lean-staffed airlines combining doesn't create a well-staffed airline. The only way acquiri...
Jump to postpretty obvious what's going on here. They still don't have the staffing needed to fly more than 2019, but they have to add more flights at JFK and BOS as part of NEA, so they are cutting even more non-JFK/LGA/BOS flights. All the new flying the announced will be for next year. That's why they neede...
Jump to postB6 is downgauging to the E190 in the fall. Ditto for MKE as well. Might be a winter change. B6 commonly used the E190 to ORD, CLE and MSP during their first few years of service as well. Hopefully. That A220 is a NICE plane. Very comfortable ride. A220 deliveries are not coming as fast as they hope...
Jump to postpretty obvious what's going on here. They still don't have the staffing needed to fly more than 2019, but they have to add more flights at JFK and BOS as part of NEA, so they are cutting even more non-JFK/LGA/BOS flights. All the new flying the announced will be for next year. That's why they needed...
Jump to postI don't think it even needs to be 5 or 6 rows. Just have a 3 row A321NEO. Turn the 7 EMS rows to 4 EMS row + 3 rows of FC. You loose 4 seats (2 seats are taken on A321HD to keep seat count at 200) if they don't add a new row, 7 seats if they remove an extra half row or 10 seats if they loose a full ...
Jump to postYep. Honestly, the elimination of NK removes the only serious threat to any WN megastation plans at BNA. The likes of F9, B6, SY, etc, will have a hard time growing in BNA. G4 and MX OTOH may have more success because they tend to serve markets WN doesn’t go to. That's possible, but I don't see b6 ...
Jump to postI would imagine all of the existing market flown by nk except for phl. I could see them adding san Francisco and San Juan and Hartford. Breeze and Southwest already run BDL, SFO is on lock by United, San Juan also has flights to BNA on Southwest. B6 doesnt want the smoke. Those are all non-importan...
Jump to postJust to illustrate my point on mint. Taking a look at a late September Monday. I see them with 10x JFK-LAX 4x EWR-LAX 6x JFK-SFO 6x BOS-SFO 5x BOS-LAX 3x FLL-LAX 2x MIA-LAX 2x FLL-SFO That's quite a lot, except that EWR-SFO has been stopped and their other old mint routes are down to 1 mint flight a...
Jump to postWith the termination of the F9/NK merger, I wonder what this means for gate assignments? NK was previously rumored to be eyeing the satellite, but I can’t see B6 growing much more here with WN’s dominance. I think b6 actually would want to expand in bna if it can get the gates. I was really surpris...
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