Originally Posted by
FriendlyPilot
The same people that say smaller airlines can't make money because they don't have scale, but then Delta, who has a TON of scale, still somehow isn't profitable and its only profitable because of credit card deals.
Which is true. 2024 Delta brought in roughly 49 billion from fares, cargo, and airline activity. The other 20% comes from CC which equates to 70% net profit to their bottom line just from that 20%.
The co branded deals offsets the breakeven portion of their business to make them profitable. Smaller airlines don’t have that scale to entice customers to want to sign up for a credit card so they can’t afford for their CASM to exceed their Fare revenue per seat mile. Simply Jetblue doesn’t have the loyalty to offset loses.