Originally Posted by TWA Fan 1
After many years of struggling with diminishing perks at CO as an OP Elite I have made to move to JetBlue (which is a real option here in NYC).
No more anxiety about whether or not I'll get an upgrade, no more seething resentment when I don't get it even if I bought that $859 ticket.
JetBlue has one class, every seat in the house is spacious and comfortable. The fare ranges are not nearly as extreme as they would be on a legacy carrier, and when I'm forced to buy a $400 rt on a transcon three days before my flight (when I could have purchased it for $259 had I been to have advance notice) I feel that the (relatively) smaller premium is worth in order to have the convenience of buying a ticket at the last minute.
Come to think of it, the airline business isn't really that different than show biz. It's like those ticket scalpers at Madison Square Garden who will sell you a seat to the Final Four for four times the face value. The only difference is that the airlines scalp their own. And I guess they have no choice since their advance sales are made below cost.
Edited for spelling because I am the world's worst typist 
I've never tried B6, because they don't fly in markets that I'm willing to try them on. On transcons, I want my legacy airline miles and possibly the upgrade
Seriously, I'll give them a shot on a BUR-LAS flight when they get them loaded and I feel like travelling. I'm a bigger seat kind of guy, not really service oriented, so NW's F beats anybody's coach.
Over the past two years, I've flown in a few different carriers' F products, and a bunch of Y products as well. We all argue over whose product is better -- some products are marginally better, and some products are marginally worse. I don't think any specific carrier's class of service blows any other particular carrier out of the water.