Originally Posted by
PeakEGT
Also what’s everyone’s obsession with ASMs being linked to growth. If anything utilization and block hours should be the metric defining growth. You can increase ASM by just flying longer routes, no? If they do less number of flying on longer routes then seatsxmiles= increase in ASM. Or even just the 50 seats on the same flight increase the number and they can cut flying. On paper it makes the airline appear bigger with less block hours.
https://ir.jetblue.com/news/news-det...ce=chatgpt.com
As seen above the average stage length increases to 1317 miles in comparison to 2024 all while doing fewer turns and making cuts.
I think it’s a misunderstanding of the system. Adding ASM’s on the surface sounds like growth UNLESS they are added in a NE centric, market saturated Jetblue system.
Similarly, aircraft utilization is misrepresented as well. Jetblue has learned the hard way that focusing on max utilization, compared to peers, has caused more delays and offset revenue. All these metrics do not operate in vacuums and are very aircraft/region/carrier specific.