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Quoting a380787 (Reply 1): The bigger question about B6 EWR is gates. I mean yeah there's tons of spare gate capacity at late night hours, but not everyone enjoys beginning their Caribbean vacation at 0130. |
Quoting Abeam79 (Reply 2): Late night flights to carribeaan works fine out of jfk, why is ewr across the river much different? I'm sure they can optimise the current gate situation as well to add a decent chunk of more flying. |
Quoting DolphinAir747 (Reply 4): These flights are aimed at VFR/"ethnic" traffic, not beach tourist traffic. STI isn't even a beach city. |
Quoting cessna53996 (Thread starter): So, where would B6 fly to from EWR? |
Quoting Abeam79 (Reply 6): I wonder if they may bring mint transcon to ewr. |
Quoting jfklganyc (Reply 10): I would say + 10-15 flights at most which is doable if they get creative. |
Quoting jfklganyc (Reply 10): would say + 10 total |
Quoting jfklganyc (Reply 10): Should get them to 30 flights a day if they wanted. I don't think they want to get that high. A few token Florida. A sprinkle of Islands. I would say + 10 total. LAX 3 daily maybe. I would say + 10-15 flights at most which is doable if they get creative. |
Quoting lightsaber (Reply 13): . With MINT, a few more West coast flights. |
Quoting 727LOVER (Reply 11): JAX & SRQ hopefully...but I'm not holding my breath. |
Quoting codc10 (Reply 12): but something on the order of 8-10 additional daily flights and perhaps 3-5 new destinations, eventually, is realistic. |
Quote: These flights will increase the number of daily flights operated by JetBlue to 30 and according to Dave Clark, vice president network planning at JetBlue, the airline hopes after Newark's reclassification is complete it can add more. "We see this as the first step, but it's still very early on," Clark told NJ Advance Media. |
Quoting STT757 (Reply 21): Besides their Havana application, I could see some more Caribbean. Perhaps Aguadilla, Ponce, Santo Domingo, Aruba, Cancun, Nassau? And or something to the West Coast, LAX, SFO or LAS to compete with the new AS/VX. |
Quoting jfklganyc (Reply 22): Looks like B6 sees this as an opportunity to grow the NYC operation and they will be aggressive about it. That will give them 180 at JFK, 16 at LGA, 40? at EWR. |
Quoting Freshside3 (Reply 23): Makes sense, as UA's "P.S." service is not as good as it used to be. |
Quoting jetbluefan1 (Reply 24): Or...they can get even more aggressive, and attempt to use EWR for those domestic flights which don't work well from JFK (RIC, PIT, DFW, HOU). |
Quoting jfklganyc (Reply 26): They chased UA out of JFK...and even if they ran 3 or 4 a day from LAX to EWR, they would put the pinch on UA on their home turf. |
Quoting STT757 (Reply 21): Besides their Havana application, I could see some more Caribbean. Perhaps Aguadilla, Ponce, Santo Domingo, Aruba, Cancun, Nassau? |
Quoting STT757 (Reply 21): And or something to the West Coast, LAX, SFO or LAS to compete with the new AS/VX. |
Quoting jetbluefan1 (Reply 24): Or...they can get even more aggressive, and attempt to use EWR for those domestic flights which don't work well from JFK (RIC, PIT, DFW, HOU). Although, truthfully, I see B6 sticking to its strengths. |
Quoting a380787 (Reply 1): but not everyone enjoys beginning their Caribbean vacation at 0130. |
Quoting SurfandSnow (Reply 31): I can't see B6 doing EWR-PSE, |
Quoting flyby519 (Reply 34): Most resorts don't commonly offer check in times at 0200 as far as I know. |
Quoting usairways85 (Reply 36): B6 has a midnight JFK-SJU flight arriving at 3:30. By the time you deplane and get ground transportation to your hotel, it's probably 5-6. You check in, room won't be ready, but drop your bags and go have breakfast by the pool. Might not be ideal for many people, but not anything crazy. |
Quoting RyanairGuru (Reply 37): There's a lot of talk about international flights in this thread, but one thing to keep in mind is FIS. International arrivals would have to be handled at Terminal B, whereas their existing gates are in Terminal A. They could of course deplane at B and then tow across to A, but that would add turnaround time and a lot of complexity to their operation. I was therefore wondering if they could run a split operation with all international arrival and departures using the CUTE gates in B? During the afternoon and early evening when the European rush is on space is at a premium, but at other times would there be room to accommodate B6 over there? |
Quoting CX747 (Reply 40): I personally would like to see WN expand out of EWR not B6. |