Originally Posted by CVG767A
Any statistics majors out there? How accurate is a poll of 9300 passengers, out of the tens of millions that flew during that time period. Delta carried 45 million pax during those months; other major airlines carried similar amounts. Nothing against JetBlue, but they're not a very big airline. How many of those passengers polled are even in a market served by JB? If the poll is skewed more towards one geographical area, the data becomes worthless.
Stories like this are good for filling a 20 second spot on CNN, but have no practical value.
Good point. Considering that JB doesn't serve giant chunks of the midwest and south, makes you wonder who was polled. Given thier enormous marketing effort in NY, I tend to think that if you poll 1000 gen-xer's in Manhattan, you're going to get 990 votes for JB.
The other 10 take the subway.