I Love Jet Blue
I've said it before, but I'll say it again.
I love Jet Blue. I just flew JFK to San Diego, we left on time, arrived early, I got a great coach seat in the back with plenty of leg room, and they let us deplane out the back door and there's wifi in the gate area so I can post about how much I love them.
I wish I could fly them more often. Their flights from DFW to the cities I fly are never available.
Posted by: Dennis Dayman | May 30, 2006 at 02:24 PM
Only blemish: they posted their 2 negative quarter, after years of good results. I´m not expert at all on the matter, but apparently expanding their routes is proving more difficult than expected. Or maybe they´re just investing for growth.
Posted by: Giordano | May 30, 2006 at 03:15 PM
i love jet blue, but i found now to be more expensive then the other airlines.
recently flew round trip from la to nyc, jet blue was almost $100 more expensive then continental, american and united.
perhaps you dont get killed on last minute purchases with jet blue like you do the other carriers, but with regluar advanced purchases, i almost always find jet blue to be of the more expensive options.
apparently, they had a long-term contract for relatively cheaper fuel as prices rose for everyone else. but now that it expired and they buy it on the market with everyone else, they are getting hammered and passing the costs along.
but i do love that directTV. never any air-rage on jet blue!
Posted by: bryan | May 30, 2006 at 04:22 PM
JetBlue is my default domestic carrier given my terrible experiences with American Airlines et al. I do hope their financials get better or we could be missing them soon !
Does anyone think their next move, via their proprietary satellite tech, will be in-flight web connections ? Seems to be working on SAS and Lufthansa.... Can't wait to Skype out discreetly at 35K....
Posted by: Frederic Guarino | May 30, 2006 at 05:35 PM
Frederic, SAS and Lufthansa were able to provide the Internet services via Connexion by Boeing.
http://www.boeing.com/connexion/news/2002/q4/nr_021105j.html
http://www.boeing.com/connexion/news/2005/q1/nr_050214j.html
Also, I would really hate to have someone yapping away on a phone just because it is available. I don't care as long as people are emailing, blogging, streaming media with headphones and social networking all they want but I can see the phone service(Skype or other VoIP) becoming a huge annoyance. On a JetBlue red eye from Oakland to Dulles, some guy in my row fell asleep with his headphones blasting away at the highest level on some paid programming channel. And yes, that happened to be the only time I forgot my ear plugs.
Sometimes, less technology is better.
Posted by: Mo | May 30, 2006 at 05:58 PM
I agree. In fact I would rather pay more to travel Jetblue than another airline. Of course there is a threshold that would default to the cheaper ticket.
Yes, it was somewhat concerning about their financial pickle which I think was them due to not hedging their fuel cost which hit them hard.
Posted by: Christian Cadeo | May 30, 2006 at 06:17 PM
JetBlue rocks.
Posted by: Rags Gupta | May 30, 2006 at 06:32 PM
Yes they have posted their second Q loss so they are rolling back the routes they have recently added (of the last 21 they have added only 2 are profitable). Pity the industry is so shitty that good service can't scale
Posted by: Nik Cubrilovic | May 31, 2006 at 09:47 PM
Just as expected....
JetBlue wins an air-ground wireless license
Fri Jun 2, 2006 12:50pm ET167
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - JetBlue Airways Corp. won a wireless license
to offer high-speed Internet and other communications services on
commercial aircraft in a U.S. Federal Communications Commission
auction that ended on Friday.
The company's subsidiary LiveTV LLC bid $7 million for a 1 megahertz
wireless license, while a company with ties to AirCell Inc., which
designs and sells airborne communications systems, won the 3
megahertz license with a bid of $31.3 million.
The winner of the larger license, AC BidCo LLC, also has ties to
private equity firm Ripplewood Holdings LLC.
The current user of the airwaves, Verizon Communications' Airfone
unit, dropped out early in the auction that started on May 10. After
the licenses are issued, Verizon must limit operations and then in
May 2010 give up the airwaves.
While Verizon's telephone service aboard commercial planes has not
done well because of the high cost to use the phones, there has been
interest in offering high-speed Internet access in the air to
business travelers.
Posted by: Frederic Guarino | June 03, 2006 at 11:56 PM