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Feb 20, 2007, 7:39 pm

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Don

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Originally Posted by magiciansampras

Or maybe people value their time and don't like being stuck in airports and cities for 5 days so they're trying to figure out if this airline really sucks or it was just a fluke.

Magiciansampras - thanks for a good thread.^

I'll offer 80-20 odds in favor of one-year survival.
(But why bet with me? A couple of years ago I'd have put up money that USAir would be gone by '06.)

Aside for the usual variables in this industry - labor, travel demand, routes, new competition, fuel price, gate contracts, etc. - B6 has put a whole lot of extra pressure on itself with last weekend's debacle.
The world will be have the "JetBlue = screwups" thought in the back of its collective mind for many, many months ... so a couple of otherwise medium-scale mistakes would quickly catapult JetBlue back into Letterman's monologue.

I'm always leery of any discounter's ability to overcome problems that are an outgrowth of its "save a buck on operations" business structure.

Let's check back on this thread in the first quarter of '08.

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