To/from London might not be too big of a deal to keep on-time, but God help anyone who books a connection on JB with less than 4 hours connection time.

In general if you're going to JFK/BOS on any carrier, you need to make sure you have above average connection time. That's if you're coming from Rochester on a Jetblue E190 or Syracuse on a Delta Connection operated by Endevour RJ.

The majority of our TATL traffic will be O/D.


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Not necessarily. Lots, maybe most. Maybe a majority. But JB will still have a lot of connections to Europe.

What you're saying is somewhat true, but there is no possible way to look at the us carrier on-time statistics and come to the conclusion that you better have even longer connection times on JB.

Or you can miss your flight. It's up to you.

Let’s also not forget that when Jetblue starts Europe in 2021, what else starts coming on property in larger numbers? I hope we roll out the A220 better than we did the E180 or there will be a lot of misconnects and angry customers. Probably should keep some 190’s around, more than planned, in case things go south.

Correct!

I am right!

It's just the next mint route in an aircraft we will operate in a few months with an extra gas tank and fancy pants paperwork and a day or so of extra training for a small cadre of pilots who are already typed.

Risk-averse!!!

Guess we’ll have to agree to disagree on whether they’re taking a risk or not. You’re kinda missing the point talking about how our pilots are already Airbus typed/additional ppwk. We can obviously fly to London easily, we just need to be profitable doing it while everyone else is trying hard to crush us. Will failing in London while adding a completely new fleet type to the mix shut the airline down? I doubt it. Will it hurt the bottom line and look bad publicly...absolutely. Next few years I think will be make or break or Jetblue. If the A220 rollout and London don’t go well, a merger or sale won’t be far behind.

I think we agree.

However it seems you think risk aversion means no risk.

I’m saying risk aversion is the behavior of humans when exposed to uncertainty, attempt to lower that uncertainty.

The LR and TATL vs A330 and TATL is an attempt to lower the uncertainty - risk.

It is just the next mint route.

Take off and turn East vs West. I do agree this is the least risk way to do it. But that’s not a bad thing (I don’t think you are saying it is) IF you have the airports the product and a plane you already fly that can do it why not do it. I absolutely agree it’s another mint route. Because if we didn’t have mint we wouldn’t be doing it.