Originally Posted by
Flyby1206
JetBlue can’t realistically take over those routes. Point to point flying is very difficult for us operationally. We can get away with a few instances but no way to do the stuff Breeze does without having small crew bases scattered along the east coast.
Jetblue has strong brand recognition in NE and Florida in particular. How many JB card holders are becoming Breeze frequent fliers because they live closer to these secondary cities and aren’t traveling to a hub city like BOS/JFK/FLL/MCO?
Probably a lot. JB went after us hard early on but they’ve basically given up and can’t compete. Also we offer non stop flights with a more efficient operation, can’t really compete with that. As far as JB and Breeze merging, It’s hard to guage how Neeleman still feels about the whole JB thing, you’d think he wants to preside over JB once more but I just don’t see it. They seem to be focused on creating a new thing with Breeze. The A220 is valuable efficiency wise but the operational reliability is just not there yet, we’re going to operate a fleet of Learjets to support them with parts and crew, that’s how bad it is.