Originally Posted by marlborobell
... of those, STL would be the most obvious -- lots of spare gates since AA scaled back, a pretty good O&D market, a brand new runway.
The biggest downside would be that they would inevitably be going head-to-head with WN, which they've studiously avoided up until now.
I agree that STL would be the most likely. With all of the open space, I bet STL would be willing to give a pretty nice incentive to a new carrier.
Competing with WN could be a problem, but the fact is that they will face off eventually. They have coincided for the last half decade by staying out of each other's way. However, Southwest is now expanding more in the East and in major markets, which is where Jetblue is going to expand. Jetblue can't live in permanent fear of Southwest.