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Old Sep 30, 2009 | 1:35 pm
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Originally Posted by jlp187
reg. folks enjoy MRTC and snacks on JetBlue, so the question is how can JetBlue afford it and not AA? i'm sure fuel hedging had to do with most of it, but just curious...

btw...i do enjoy some of my suggested changes, only when i have enough 500-mile stickers
Much of it is that Jet Blue has a lower cost structure. Employees are newer and paid less, a/c are much newer and have lower maintainance costs, and Jet Blue is not supporting huge hub operations.
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