Originally Posted by
iaflyer
I can really see the A321 with lie flat going head to head with Jetblue out of Boston to Europe, and JFK to close-in Europe destinations. Sorta what we did in 2008 with the 757s we got from TWA.
The Jet Blue experiment is interesting.
MaxJet, EOS, and SilverJet all tried to grab market share from the "NYLON" (New York to London) routes with premium only seating. All failed for the usual reasons. I believe, and hope, that JetBlue will fail for the same reasons.
Because these routes are hugely profitable for the legacy carriers (for the pre-Covid business seats, anyway), I'd be surprised to see the traditional carriers lying down and taking any competition from JetBlue. Personally, I hope Delta, American, and United (plus "partners") crush them. Bias: acknowledged.
Who knows?
Here's a funny SilverJet add, a bit cheeky in it's heyday (of 1-2 years, in the dark naive and bigoted years of 2007), when there were such Neanderthal concepts of "women" and "men" loos. :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvtpmMrSvlI