JetBlue "Go Packs" for intra-California travel
Feb 13, 2012, 10:56 am
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JetBlue "Go Packs" for intra-California travel
JetBlue is continuing their exploration of different marketing ideas for bulk travel this winter, offering up "Go Packs" for customers making frequent trips in the intra-California market. The company is offering up fixed-price blocks of 10, 20 or 30 flight coupons, each valid for a one-way trip between their hub in Long Beach and the northern California airports of Sacramento, Oakland and San Francisco. The packs are priced between $70-90 per segment, plus $7 per flight at the time of actual booking for government fees.
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http://boardingarea.com/blogs/thewan...fornia-travel/
http://www.jetblue.com/gopack/
Read more:
http://boardingarea.com/blogs/thewan...fornia-travel/
http://www.jetblue.com/gopack/
Feb 13, 2012, 3:48 pm
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JetBlue is continuing their exploration of different marketing ideas for bulk travel this winter, offering up "Go Packs" for customers making frequent trips in the intra-California market. The company is offering up fixed-price blocks of 10, 20 or 30 flight coupons, each valid for a one-way trip between their hub in Long Beach and the northern California airports of Sacramento, Oakland and San Francisco. The packs are priced between $70-90 per segment, plus $7 per flight at the time of actual booking for government fees.
IMHO, JetBlue should adjust the advertised amounts by $70, $140, and $210.
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Feb 13, 2012, 3:49 pm
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This is a very good deal for people who fly these routes very frequently but who either:
1. cannot freeze their travel plans 2 weeks ahead, or
2. typically fly at peak times and pay more than $90 each way.
I imagine that its appeal is limited to those who pay for their own travel, because:
3. fewer TB points will be earned than for walk-up fares, and
4. allocating the cost of the travel pass among different accounts would be challenging.
Items 3 and 4 benefit JetBlue, because they do not want customers to substitute the pass for non-discretionary top-dollar tickets.
1. cannot freeze their travel plans 2 weeks ahead, or
2. typically fly at peak times and pay more than $90 each way.
I imagine that its appeal is limited to those who pay for their own travel, because:
3. fewer TB points will be earned than for walk-up fares, and
4. allocating the cost of the travel pass among different accounts would be challenging.
Items 3 and 4 benefit JetBlue, because they do not want customers to substitute the pass for non-discretionary top-dollar tickets.
Feb 15, 2012, 12:10 pm
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I do wonder if it has to do with the ticket not actually being issued until the specific flight is chosen so JetBlue won't collect the fees until that time. If you end up not using all the "coupons" in the pack then you wouldn't have to pay the taxes on the ones you don't use.
