<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by odnyc:
jet Blue is one of the great marketing frauds ever- totally positive press; meanwhile, I hear many complaints about leg room, customer service etc.
But what savvy frequent flyer would ever fly Jet Blue unless the price was literally rock bottom (By the way $100) to from NYC to Buffalo is hardly rock bottom. At that rate per mile, NY-LAX would be $2,000 and still no real, valuable frequent flyer program.
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1)While it is certainly not Mianline AA's MRTC, jetBlue's legroom/pitch is not significantly better or worse than the other domestic US airlines, and far better than what CO and US offer on their BUF to NYC flights (which are done with Dash-8's or Jungle Jets).
2)Prior to jetBlue's arrival in the JFK-BUF market, the flights on American Eagle's SAAB 340's where significantly more expensive, i.e. more than $100 OW.
3)Whatever NYC to BUF is, the fares on jetBlue from JFK to LGB or ONT are not $2000; I don't even think they charge that much for a walk-up.
4)The jetBlue FF program ("trueBlue") is as useful as its counterpart at Southwest, though the one at Southwest is more generous as it gives one credit for each direction of a ticket regardless of length. Given what I read on FT about restrictions on the use of traditional miles on other carriers and my own experience, I often wonder which system is the best. Didn't Southwest's win the Freddy this year???