JetBlue's Service to DCA and BDL
Dec 13, 10, 8:03 pm
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JetBlue's Service to DCA and BDL
As we all know, B6 started service in Hartford and Washington Reagan last month. How are they doing thus far in terms of profitability and loads? I'd expect DCA-BOS would be one of the lesser-profitable routes since its already served over 20 times daily.
Insight anyone?
Insight anyone?
Dec 14, 10, 4:44 pm
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Originally Posted by keagkid101
I'd expect DCA-BOS would be one of the lesser-profitable routes since its already served over 20 times daily.?
Last edited by doctor15; Dec 14, 10 at 4:54 pm
Dec 23, 10, 11:46 am
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Originally Posted by doctor15
I don't have any insight on how they are doing, but before B6 entered the game prices were routinely $500+ for this quick hop (on short notice) and flights were generally full. Even in advance fares were relatively high. Also AA recently dropped this route, so I would expect they are cleaning up pretty nicely on this one.
All I know is that buying a day-of direct flight BOS->DCA used to be $650 on Delta and now I can get it for $300 peak on B6. My company controller is loving it.
I bet if you ran the numbers right now it would look pretty bad as the last two weeks have been absolutely dead on commuter flights (day-of $49 tickets BOS<->DCA), but they're going to absolutely own this market imho.
Dec 23, 10, 1:56 pm
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Originally Posted by cleanfloor
They're doing some gateshare with AA now, which is how B6 got the DCA gates.
Dec 23, 10, 4:21 pm
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Originally Posted by sbm12
Given that the B6 DCA gates are nowhere near the AA facilities I'm not entirely sure how this makes sense.
Dec 24, 10, 10:48 pm
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Originally Posted by sbm12
Given that the B6 DCA gates are nowhere near the AA facilities I'm not entirely sure how this makes sense.
Dec 25, 10, 3:29 am
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Originally Posted by cleanfloor
A B6 rep told me that they traded a few slots at DCA and BOS with AA. IE, AA gets a few of their boston slots and in turn B6 gets one or two at DCA
But neither gates nor BOS were involved. Once they had the slots B6 had to deal with gates and such directly from the Washington Airport folks.
Dec 25, 10, 4:12 pm
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Originally Posted by cleanfloor
A B6 rep told me that they traded a few slots at DCA and BOS with AA. IE, AA gets a few of their boston slots and in turn B6 gets one or two at DCA
Jan 2, 11, 8:14 pm
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I can't speak for BDL as I haven't been there but I've been in and out of DCA the last 2 months and we are doing quite well there. Terminal A may be a dump to most but we redid our check in area and the terminal isn't as crowded. It's nice a peaceful in there. I like being in Terminal A
