Originally Posted by
Roy Biggins
JetBlue does seem pretty aggressive about this. I think we were all in shock when the news popped. Especially a day after LOA 17 was ratified and we gave scope relief to AA. Which reminds me, I hope we can get Spirit’s MEC to replace ours. 😃
He did sound very serious about this. He mentioned the failed VA purchase to which he said today to the tune of “we aren’t talking about 50 planes with a California presence, this is hundreds of planes with an extensive order book, with a national presence”. Basically as bad as we may have wanted VA, we want NK much more.
JBLUs 190s are all gone by 2026 and there aren’t any orders after 2025. JBLU wants to go all Airbus fleet and the order book for Airbus is long and established (that’s what she said). I don’t know how JBLU grows without buying an airline with aircraft on order and pilots ready to fly them.