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Old 08-04-2025 | 03:20 AM
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Combatcraig
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Great post and thanks for the education. No we are not there yet but we certainly aren’t doing well. Financially we are much much better off than Spirit and have a lot of borrowed $ to keep the lights on for a long time while we (too slowly) make adjustments (route and most importantly outfitting our jets with 1st class). I think fleet wide 1st class will help a lot (I commute on Delta/Endeavor a lot and even when the loads are light, 1st class is nearly always full). The biggest problem with JetBlue is our arrogant management being way to slow to make meaningful adjustments. Being late to the show with 1st class as an example. Another is insisting on keeping our OPS in the liberal expensive NYC. Probably our biggest issue always has been and will be our crappy network. 2 bases in FL and 2 in the NE. Typical summer thunderstorms or a hurricane kills the OP there, Summer and winter storms in the NE destroys our operation there for days and we have NO Midwest base to use as a shock absorber. Our management simply doesn’t have a vision. Lots of Midwest cities could have become a great base (shock absorber) such as Nashville. But like i said, we have no vision and are always a day late and a dollar short. Maybe because they don’t seem to hire actual talent in the areas that need it. Just hire from within. So do they even know what right looks like when it pertains to running an airline? Apparently not. We all have hope but morale is in the toilet with no end in sight.
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