JFK-CLT upgrade to A320?
 

What do you guys think about the huge success of CLT, I was looking for flights for the weekend and everything is sold out. Even Monday has some sell-outs. Any chance this will go A320 soon? I'd like to see Parker's letter now about how Jetblue will be a non-presence down there.

A very good chance it may happen, here are today's loads, a saturday non-the-less

JFK-CLT
1081: booked 101
1083: booked 100
1085: booked 100
1087: booked 98

CLT-JFK
1082: booked 95
1084: booked 95
1086: booked 100
1080: booked 98

Seeing the weakest load at 95% capacity, It's great hearing this. Go B6!!

Tomorrow the weakest load is 90 and Monday the weakest load is 93. So it looks like a great start for the new station

Not to mention it looks like one of the JFK-CLT flights are sold out on Tuesday!

How are the RDU flights doing?

On a side note, I hear RIC, AUS, PWM and PIT are developing nicely as well. Don't know about JAX.

Thanks for the info everyone.

PWM has done poorly, but it should have been an E90 from the start.

Also, how can they have 101 seats sold when jetBlue never, ever overbooks?

Oversolds have been known to happen from time to time. Usually if 2 customers book at the same time it can oversell the flight or if the company has to put on "must rides" it will move it to oversold. It is a rare occurance but does happen from time to time.

Excellent!!! The loads has been done well for inaugural new flight CLT-JFK. What about does B6 will upgrade from E90 to A320?

Ad in today's Stamford Advocate from US highlighting Charlotte flights as low as $188 r/t. Funny

And remember that's from all 3 NYC airports which much better frequency ex-LGA and EWR.

Also remember, that's on an airline with one of the lowest ratings when it comes to customer experience and customer service. Those $188 r/t fares on US between CLT and NYC would not be available if it weren't for jetBlue. Up until recently, US "screwed" their customers with high airfares and crappy service. Today, they "screw" their customers with just crappy service. I'd also be willing to bet that those cheaper fares are much more likmited on US and their last-minute walk-up fares is much, much greater than jetBlue's.

According to a.net, PIT and RIC are struggling. RIC doesn't surprise me, but I thought that they said that PIT's initial bookings were strong? That is a market that I thought would be doing very well.

On a side note, according to multiple people on a.net, it seems that the marketing department is slacking in the newer markets. Apparently, there has next to nil marketing at BNA, and it is not much better at PIT. What's going on?

I thought is was suprising that B6 went with the A320 on the JFK-PWM route. I didn't question it because I thought they may have had research figures that proved it was worth running A320's up there. I hope that route works out for them

On a side note, is it just me or has B6 had a lot of new routes recently that have struggled? (ex. BUR to MCO/LAS is defunked, EWR/SJU is shutting down, JFK to PIT, RIC, PWM amoungst others rumored to struggle)

I could be wrong, but wasn't the idea behind the EWR/SJU flight to utilize a plane at night? I don't think that was a big loss to the system. And, yes, some cities are struggling, but some of the new cities are also doing well (CLT, RDU, JAX, AUS, BDA). However, I think that Jetblue may have a problem with their Columbus flights if they go in with little to no marketing in a smaller market, like RIC.