JetBlue Adds Two Dozen New Leisure Routes

Why isn’t LAX listed as a new route from RDU?

Some of these routes are logical, though others not so much.

I can't see Richmond or Charleston to LAX being lucrative during COIVD.
Also, is demand to the Caribbean really going to be higher this year than years in the past, I doubt it. Now Jetblue is going to have up to 4 daily flights to Aruba from JFK + EWR, seems a little much.

If people actually start to travel again, Cancun airport is going to be slammed on Saturdays, with 15 flights alone just coming from JFK + EWR.

Punta Canada lol 😉

FLL to PSP just doesn’t make sense to me.

@Sharon

Oh for sure. With wealthier Americans not able to fly to Europe many of them are going to flock t to the Caribbean. Add in the fact the rest of the world does not particularly wan't Americans flying there Cancun and Mexico in general is very much open to Americans coming.

We will probably see a lot of capacity going South of the border. Cancun was always a big destination with American sending 787s from Chicago there. It will be interesting to see if there is any long lasting effects of diminished demand to Europe even as recovery is underway.

The countries who have things under control should form their own travel corridor, while the dumpster fire countries should also do the same (with other dumpster fire countries of course, not the safe ones).

Of course, that would require the countries to update their lists dynamically, something I'm not sure the US is capable of, at least not for a few more months.

With who knows what business travel will look like particularly over the next 12 months I'm assuming airlines need to do a bit of "experimenting" with routes.

Punta Canada lol Yup! they should just colonize it

@David - Where would the US fall in your stupid scheme? With the countries who continue to see a downward trend in daily cases? Or with Spain/France where they are seeing massive spikes in cases? Before you tell me I am wrong, Google covid cases for Spain, France and USA. The graphs tell a pretty simple story.

Very good. Keep Americans vacationing in Mexico and other Senor Frogs locations in the Caribbean.

Keep them out of the rest of the world

Bozeman gets a Jet Blue route, but Boise can't get Jet Blue?!

Ben,

So you don't hate going to FLL from your home enough to stop you from going there for a nonstop flight if one is offered from FLL but not MIA? You've posted before that you hate the trip to FLL versus ten minutes from home to MIA, yet you're excited about the Bozeman flight from FLL.

While I believe that people want to travel, many in NY are being very cautious.

I have heard from friends, that the do not want to go to the Caribbean because they do not want to possibly overrun the healthcare systems there, where the locals desperately need it.

Many will simply be staying in the NYC area or heading to the Ritz’s in Miami.

@NAUgrad05, I love Boise but Bozeman and Yellowstone just have name recognition in the East that Idaho lacks. Let's just keep it our secret.

@David I agree. Spain/France should already open to USA (and USA needs to reciprocate), I've been itching to go back myself

Wait... so JB drops the PSP-JFK route but adds PSP-FLL? Doesn't make sense. They complained that the PSP-JFK wasn't profitable but it was a red-eye flight that did not offer Mint service. That's the dumbest thing ever since PSP is a huge First/Business class location. Nobody wants an economy red-eye out of PSP! I don't see this FLL route lasting long, either.

@jan - maybe you should actually look into the Spanish and French numbers... unlike the United States those countries have spikes in COVID cases...

@Business Guy I did, I'm just saying that USA and France/Spain now has roughly the same cases/100k therefore there's no reason for banned travel between these countries

Interesting that they are going to fight the incumbents AA and DL on RDU-LAX. DL used to sell a lot of Comfort+ on that route. On the other hand, American didn't always run it seven days a week. Hopefully B6 will avoid the redeye.

Did I miss any updates on the London route?

@Jan and @Business Guy

Spain and France are both experiencing a SECOND wave (which was to be expected). The US is still in it's FIRST wave. Just be prepared because the second wave will come, we have incompetent leaders at the helm.

PSP-FLL have huge travel savvy gay communities. That’s the market. Makes sense.

I live in PSP and let me tell you, weather wise, December's cool, low humidity days are delightful compared to FLL. The only thing I can figure here is that JB is linking two cities with large LGBTQ populations eager to resume travel and hope to find plenty of customers.

@lucky @anyone, wonder if someone can answer, how the heck does B6 plan on being profitable by matching UA's 2x daily sfo-cun route? What is their plan there/on these types of well-established legacy leisure routes and how do they believe they are able to double that market?

Second Question: Is UA simply holding out on beginning SFO-Latin America operations (SJO/LIR/LIM/BOG/GRU etc. which might actually work decently) because they don't want to make IAH redundant?

@Mark you sound excited at the prospect of a much larger second wave.

Super excited about CHS-LAX! First time we've had a nonstop to California. Now if we can just get a flight to Las Vegas!