Originally Posted by
sbm12
Um....no. WestJet won the 8 slot pairs available to new entrants. JetBlue won the 8 pair for existing carriers. There is nothing at all about it that suggests JetBlue won all the slots.
Well, it was DL who got them from the US/DL slot swap and it was a requirement of the deal that they be divested to new entrants.
They have 28 pairs at LGA and 12 at DCA.
I never said JetBlue got all the slots. Read what I said carefully:
JetBlue and WestJet are essentially the same type of carrier even though they are two seperate companies which had some of the same players involved as well as many of the same business concepts.
So while yes it was Westjet and Jetblue, it was both low fare carriers with very similar parallels which received the LGA slots. Southwest still has the 28 pairs (I presume that is combined with the AirTran slots) for travel.