Originally Posted by
jetBlueNYFL
dietcoke, I like your assessment on ATL. It would be nice to see it come back on line with JFK and BOS service. After all, look at SDQ which just recently came back this year. Although I heard that had something to do with the A320 unable to handle the cargo/baggage weight. Cities do come back...in most cases, with MUCH better planning. Didn't something similar happen at WN with DEN I believe?
One question - you mention FL leased A320's to compete on west coast runs? I thought it was the 737.
Airtran contracted Ryan international ( a totally seperate company from Ireland's Ryanair ) to fly A320's. At that time Airtran were exclusively flying the 717 which simply didn't have the range for the west coast. The 737's came after this and enabled Airtrans expansion westward.