Originally Posted by
ijgordon
So they chose JetBlue - the airline no sane business traveler who wants to get there on time would fly?? Make it make sense.
BA doesn't seem to have any difficulty filling their 12+ daily flights, even the ones from EWR (where they fly up to 3x daily) and have basically no AA connect. I've frequently seen every flight zeroed out, so not sure what B6 would add.
Originally Posted by
ijgordon
Right, my issue isn’t with BA partnering with B6. It’s the reason speculated by that third party site that doesn’t make any sense.
Despite all the click-bait speculation, I suspect this has much less to do with BA wanting feed at JFK/BOS than B6 needing additional European destinations to help fill its own flights to LHR. BA may not really even care if they sell any seats on B6 domestic services. Since they're bothering to offer seats to B6 to sell, what's the harm of placing the BA code on a myriad of B6 flights? There may even be zero minimum purchase requirements and really nothing to lose on BA's part (but plenty to gain by opening another channel to support LHR short-haul sales).