Originally Posted by flyinggolfer
Very good points. Until this happened, I wasn't aware this was an issue for the A320. One of the reasons I started flying B6 vs CO was that CO put so many 737s on their transcon routes. As a lowly silver elite, upgrades didn't occur very often and I preferred the legroom of B6. Anyone happen to know if the 737 has the same issue?
Depends what model; some are designed for longer range ops. But I don't think this is really a question of which models are more likely to require refueling stops, but rather how the airlines are routing their planes and whether they can cope with periodic strong headwinds without having to make fuel stops.
An airline with more than one type of plane has the option of redeploying their aircraft to make sure they can handle the non-stops during the most challenging times of the year, (i.e. move 757's to longer routes and A320's to shorter ones), but JetBlue doesn't have this option since they only have one type of large jet.