Originally Posted by
DMPHL
True. I imagine part of the hope is that the partnership with AA will alleviate some of that pain by allowing interlining during IRROPS, at least when it's not, say, a winter storm when AA's operation goes to s**t, as well!
Yes, that's definitely a major part of this deal.
The biggest complaints about JetBlue in Boston before this was lack of options for irrops, not flying to many places domestically in middle of the country and not flying internationally.
Well, partnership with aa solve the first two. And they are starting to fly to Europe next year. We have corporate demand stuck at near zero in northeast. By the time corporate demand comes back a little bit, JetBlue will have resolved three of the biggest concerns for ff.
And over in NYC, aa is basically giving JetBlue slots and gates because they can't afford to fly those routes themselves anymore. JetBlue is making a major push here to expand it's new York and new jersey footprint. Again, partnership with aa has solved a lot of the biggest concerns facing them.
And since aa has such a terrible product according to some, it should be easy for JetBlue to convert those as customers to JetBlue ff, right?