Originally Posted by
Clear Right
With regard to the “near Europe” aspirations: Explain to me how JetBlue operating an A321LR/XLR from BOS/JFK to Europe is any different than what United is going to do with its recently announced A321LR order. Perhaps you are worried that JetBlue being one of the largest carriers at both BOS and JFK might actually have the feed and the product in “MINT” (recently voted Best Domestic Business Class by TPG), that it could actually compete with Legacy service on Trans-Atlantic routes.
UAL is getting the 321s for
secondary markets and has widebodies for everything else.
With UAL rolling out Polaris on the widebodies, including the Hi-J version of the 767 with only 167 seats, MINT is a blip as far as UAL is concerned.
Consider the current JB 321 with
4 MINT "suites", while this is what UA flies to LHR 6x daily from EWR, for example:
Transatlantic, UAL and JB are two different airlines with two different markets.