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Old 06-17-2025 | 07:52 AM
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Originally Posted by N6279P
JetBlue wasn’t making money back in 2023 when everything was booming but now it’s an economy problem?!
Well the economy is pretty important for a business, isn't it?

You're also missing my point. No, we haven't been making money for years, but especially this year many people are praising who is in office and that the economy is going to skyrocket and we're all gonna do great, and then within a matter of weeks the narrative became "We need a recession".

We rely on VFR travel, and when you have a worried population who doesn't want to spend money and/or travel to the US for reasons, it directly harms our business. My point is that the current economic climate is not going to help an airline that is trying to recover. JB hasn't done well during the best of times, the assumption was that the economy would grow and that an administration that is more business friendly and historically easier on regulations would make it easier for us to run an airline, instead we're now relying on "hope" to get the company turned around. We haven't had good news in years, and now that we're a year or so into JetForward, we're piling on more bad news.
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