Originally Posted by
Masterofpuppets
When was the last time you flew F on DL? Just did a JFL to FLL F flight last week. 5 different meal options. All look pretty spectacular to me. My meal on the way down and the way back were actually very good. Then again, more and more people are paying for F so the hot AND cold food options are actually rather....good. If its the intention of B6 to compete with the legacies by introducing an F, or MINT Jr. cabin, then they need to offer comparable or better meal service.
JetBlue has no intention of competing on that level. Even Mint doesn't have some basic things that other carriers have (lounge access, CLEAR in every terminal, a curtain separating J from Y). I would expect to see their F experience on routes where they are the only or majority nonstop option. Especially some of the routes that are otherwise very long Delta Connection or American Eagle (for example) routes. Remember that Delta is a legacy and JetBlue is a LCC -- they are forced to compete with each other due to geography, but they have different customer bases.
Originally Posted by
Pickles
Maybe they should concentrate first on getting their existing garbage planes to reliably leave and arrive on time, and maybe second on getting their pitiful-selection onboard IFE and Wi-Fi to work more reliably than ~0% of the time (with their existing seat configurations), before thinking on investing on F.
My thought is that this is part of it. Fewer seats on the plane means fewer people to deal with, and premium pax theoretically means more airports crewmembers are empowered to fix things when there's a problem. Alternatively, they are giving up on the operation and trying to do the next best thing
-J.