JetBlue Slashes Newark Flights, A Gift To Partner United: What's The Logic? - JetBlue

JetBlue Slashes Newark Flights, A Gift To Partner United: What's The Logic?

Ben Schlappig — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:53:35 +0000

This certainly is a strange time in the airline industry when it comes to competitive dynamics…

Continue reading: JetBlue Slashes Newark Flights, A Gift To Partner United: What’s The Logic?

Share your questions, experiences, and thoughts below.

Alicia — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:58:43 +0000

This is a huge LOSS for JetBlue and for us the mosaic customers We are forced to bring OUR LOYALTY to United CLEARLY JetBlue DOESNT VALUE OUR LOYALTY being mosaic Oh well JetBlue hope you don’t go belly up

Richard Spengler — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:22:51 +0000

The Ft Myers flite was always full. It is Full today. This partnership does Nothing for Mosaic 3&4 members. Time to enroll elsewhere. Big win for United

Mike — Fri, 22 May 2026 12:04:26 +0000

Exactly this - the planes and crews to fund FLL growth have to come from somewhere and they have to hold thier JFK slots and try not to lose more ground to DL in BOS. Lucky neglected to mentioned that they have added new flights from FLL to both ORD and IAH - UA hubs. Those will feed B6 flights south of FLL and compete directly against UA for local traffic.

Migs from LHR — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:37:13 +0000

Yes, but #thisisnotanairport. There’s no need to announce your departure

Tim Dunn — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:49:56 +0000

it is beyond remarkable that Andy argues "I" don't understand how antitrust law works and it is the UA fans that continue to believe that EWR is not part of the same NYC market that the DOJ has repeatedly said, like WAS, is one market. and, no, DL wasn't handed high market share positions. It simply chose to build its core hubs in single airport cities -including essentially BOS and SEA on top of its historic ATL, DTW, MSP and SLC hubs - and then win ORGANICALLY in those markets. It is not the DOJ's problem that UA has not figured out how to be more profitable; it has made it clear that its objective is competitiveness in the US airline industry with virtually no concern for profitability. DL has said it is NOT interested in merging which makes it pretty clear that any domestic mergers or acquisitions involving the big 4 will create an imbalance in market power - which will set off all kinds of red flags. UA and B6 both have horrible track records of understanding how to stay under the DOJ's radar while DL has done a pretty good job. and UA itself has said that it is not interested in acquiring all of B6 - undoubtedly because of the debt. a full merger of B6 by UA is a wet dream of UA fan nuts that are even more disconnected from the inflated statements UA execs make. the only people that are laughing are those that watch UA fan nuts who think that UA will dominate the world even more when UA already touts that it is the world's largest airline and the largest in NYC. If UA hasn't got what it needs to be profitable and cover the world sufficiently with what it has, the American people are certainly not going to pay the price with even higher fares because UA has been mismanaged for so many years including over the past 5 years that UA focused more on size than profitability.

1990 — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:02:47 +0000

Glidescope, did I say everything is perfect at any/everything company? No, certainly not. Ialso was clear in my preference for the on-board experience at jetBlue over Ryanair. However, let's be clear, in response to George's strawman attack, above, Ryanair is a good example of an airline that operates within those confines. As for consumer protections, something like EU261 is also not perfect, and could be further streamlined to directly pay passengers, and yet, having a rule like that is better than nothing, which is the status in the US now.

Parnel — Wed, 20 May 2026 11:06:21 +0000

Wow, Tim is getting worried this will hurt his love Delta. Now he wants the govt to save his Delta from United Tim we are all laughing at you.

B. Simmons — Wed, 20 May 2026 09:38:08 +0000

Sad as you can never have to many flights out of the New York / New Jersey Metropolitan Area .

Andy — Wed, 20 May 2026 06:40:31 +0000

Tim is just showing his lack of understanding about how mergers get approved. You think this is all about numbers and precedence. The case will be handed to the DOJ, which is not independent like the FTC. They will then choose to not challenge the merger or challenge it but only on the smallest of grounds because of Kirby’s ass kissing and it’ll go to court and get approved. It doesn’t matter how dominant United is, the DOJ will operate as an arm of the Trump administration. But don’t worry you’ve said before that United will never catch up to Delta in terms of profits and that’s exactly what they’ll argue in court as to why this merger is fine. That Delta was handed dominant market positions in so many markets and that United competes against other airlines in all of its hubs including New York and B6’s hubs are all competitive too. So what’s the harm? Maybe you should do some researching and thinking… This is all political and Delta has played the “art of anti-competitive” deals for the better part of 30 years, I guess now it will hurt them.