I know there's been lots of talks about SWA vs AA, UA, and DL but what about JB? Looking at a 30+ year career based in LAX, SNA, LGB!

 

Go to Delta!

 

What a helpful advice. Any reason you're still here?

 

I was at JetBlue for a little while before WN. I think they have the best customer experience and product in the US right now. They’re dipping their toes in the European water with London and Paris. They hit every piece of sand in the Caribbean with a runway. More importantly, they are an aspirational brand. People want to fly on JetBlue. Celebrities post photos on instagram when they’re riding in JetBlue Mint class. Lynn Manuel Miranda included JetBlue in a song in his Broadway musical “In the Heights”.

SWA on the contrary is an intermediary product. People tolerate it to get where they actually want to be. Same with Spirit and Frontier. If the Spirit JetBlue merger is consummated and JetBlue is the surviving brand, it will be a juggernaut with a unique combination of low fares, broad route network, and terrific product that we just can’t compete with.

Personally, if I had a crystal ball, I think that JetBlue is the better long term bet right now. But I’ve been accused of being a little negative in the past…

 

[QUOTE=ZapBrannigan;3660708]I was at JetBlue for a little while before WN.QUOTE]
Just wondering why you left Jet Blue for WN and ifanything has changed since then that makes you regret the choice?

 

[QUOTE=tanker;3660712]I made the decision for two reasons. One was a complicated two leg commute from a small town in the Midwest to Boston. Also, they didn't have a union CBA at the time. That concerned me. Finally - and I regret that I felt this way - is that I didn't perceive JetBlue to be a destination carrier at that time. It didn't feel like a successful conclusion to my career.

I was wrong of course. Today they outmatch WN in many ways from retirement contribution, to PaxEx, to upgrade time, to international network, to fleet modernity. They're clearly a destination carrier. The only question, and it's one that only you can answer, is which carrier works best for you and your family?

There are few wrong answers these days. As the saying goes, you won't know if you made the right right decision until you walk away on your last day.

 

Wobder what your friends there think of mgt now? Mine say the way the company is run has gone down hill in the last 5-7 years. Still the same product in back, but like everywhere….they’re trying to do too much with not enough puzzle pieces. My friends don’t want the merger to happen and would prefer to grow organically, but mgt is all in so you get what you get.

 

I’d come to WN over JB for LAX. Different case if you live in the northeast. JB LAX is mostly red eye flying and you’ll get more days off with better schedule flexibility once you have a line here. Plus LAX has good Hawaii trips here

 

Good question. No idea. The ones I still talk to say they sit on reserve and never get used. Doesn't sound half bad! 😉

 

Lol….true true.