Another battle between airtran and jetblue

[jetdawg]

JetBlue to announce flights from StewartBad enough our management has to plan new routes for DAL, but now we have LCCs bumping into each other (read Boyd.) This is Stupid!

http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061024/NEWS/610240347

JetBlue to announce flights from Stewart
October 24, 2006
Sometimes, good news comes in bunches.
JetBlue will announce tomorrow that it's launching service at Stewart Airport, Sen. Charles Schumer said this afternoon.
The major discount airline will announce flights direct from Stewart to Orlando, Ft. Lauderdale and West Palm Beach, starting in December, Schumer said. The flights, five in all by early January, will be on 156-seat Airbus A320 jets with fares starting at $79, Schumer said.
Stewart wouldn't confirm the news and JetBlue spokesmen were not immediately available for comment. But other sources close to the airport confirmed it.
A formal announcement is expected at Stewart Wednesday morning.
"We've always believed in Stewart," Schumer said. "We knew its day would come and it looks like that day is coming."
Airport officials, Schumer and local business leaders have been working for years to lure a big discounter. Earlier this month, AirTran Airways announced it will start flights in January to Atlanta, Tampa, Orlando and Ft. Lauderdale. Now, it appears, JetBlue is joining in, too.


I thought only Delta went where Airtran goes I guess that is not the case anymore. Hope there is enough traffic for everybody. Maybe we will put a fancy OCC logo on our planes.

 

[CA1900]

Great... how much of my money is being used to give JetBlue free gate rent this time?

 

[rayford steele]

Great... how much of my money is being used to give JetBlue free gate rent this time?

Yeah those JetBlue guys I tell ya. First it was free airplanes,then free mx, and now free gates. How is it that they lose money?

 

[CA1900]

Perhaps I wouldn't so annoyed had it not been for the fact that Massport uprooted my previous airline from its gates in Boston to make more room for Jetblue, renovated the terminal, gave them free gate rent and discounted landing fees at Logan for a year, and jacked up the other tenants' gate rent 55% to make up the difference!

Using tax money and penalizing the long-term tenants, all to "bring low fares" to a city. It's a little perverse. (This isn't a dig at Jetblue at all; more power to them for being able to negotiate such a deal. I'm just very, very disappointed in the political "leaders" who spearheaded this crap.)

 

[Ty Webb]

We ain't got no TV, but da Tranny gonna kick some fanny!

I wish I understood the logic, or what passes for logic here . . . I guess JB wants to see how they can do taking on AirTran head-to-head in a new market. My guess is that there will be no winners, only losers.

Watch for a Legacy to jump into the fray now . . . that would be par for the course.


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[BLUE BAYOU]

Airtran and Jetblue have already been rubbing up against each other as we both try and find suitable markets. BOS-FLA, ROC-FLA are a couple I have in mind-- but essentially, we've done a good job of staying away from head-head competition against Airtran and Southwest. We're flying SYR-MCO but we don't go direct ROC-MCO, yet. Airtran flies BOS-ROC, but we fly BOS-BUF.

 

[HomerJ]

Look for DL's typical move shortly...overlapping service with RJ's...