Originally Posted by ceelo

They shouldn't be considered majors in my opinion. Here's why.

They do most of their flying in the US, and land at a lot of obscure airports (just like regionals)

Southwest doesn't even fly to Canada, but they do fly to Mexico and a few Carribean Islands. Guess who does too? Regionals.

The same thing applies to JetBlue.

So I've concluded that we should start referring to JetBlue and Southwest as regionals since regional pilots fly to even more international destinations than they do.