Originally Posted by
sandrich
From what I've gathered, SJU will at first just be 1 Saab with 2 crews, just to establish presence. I don't think our goal right away is to take over for Eagle (although this may happen to be a "coincidence"). I believe we are pursuing our own market for ourselves down there, and then do some of Eagle's routes. And it will be a TDY for now, not an actual crew base.
Wow, it will be very tough for Silver compete against Jetblue here in SJU (in the future if that happens). Jetblue right now have flight from SJU to some islands in their jets, and so far they are been leading here the market right now. Last night reading the newspaper about AE ending in SJU one employee said that "after Jetblue started in SJU last year has been very tough to keep competing against them" plus also here we have Cape Air and a couple more local airlines too. I saw Jetblue have SJU to St. Thomas (maybe a 20mins flight) in a jets just for $45 when local airlines have the same route slightly more expensive. Let's see what happens.