CatPilot1

This new airline will be JB’s next target.

Tornado875

I doubt that greatly, but would love to be proven wrong.

The701Express

​​​I forsee jetblue salivating over LAX and SFO gate divestments.

AYLflyer

Jesus, I've been saying for years JB and HA need to get together. JB wants west coast presence and widebodies. It would immedietely get us 330s, Pacific/Asia while launching our EU stuff out of JFK/BOS with the LRs.

Flyby1206

Yeah give it 5-7yrs and we’ll be in bed with this HA/AS combo. The timing will be right for WBs and creating a true global carrier.

BusBoe

Instead, JB decided to buy a failing and crappy low-tier airline like spirit.

RiddleEagle18

JB is just buying assets. They don’t care about anything except the airplanes and order book.

Lincoln Osiris

https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/t...iable-airlines

Go look at some performance metrics and then come back and tell me which one is the "crappy low tier airline" lmao.

DontCallMeCindy

Was just going to say the same thing. I’ve heard rumors Robin wanted to buy widebodies instead of Spirit, but the board (led by Baldanza) blocked it and drove us into the Spirit acquisition instead. In hindsight, with all the problems with the GTFs, the predictable collapse of demand for cheap tickets domestically (COVID money running out was written on the wall), and the shift of travel spend to premium overseas destinations…we should’ve converted XLR orders to 330s/350s, and grown organically from there.

The pilot supply issue would’ve resolved itself with a widebody order or the acquisition of a true global carrier like Hawaiian. Hawaiian would’ve been such a smarter move. Also no nightmarish difference in cabin product, which will take years to align/retrofit. Hawaiian cabins could roll for years as-is wo causing any major hiccups w/JB regulars walking on board and going “what the…?”

Oh well—guess we’ll at least be a super unstoppable force tapping those super lucrative markets like DTW, SDQ, MCO, Honduras, etc. lololol

DontCallMeCindy

We don’t have the money for that—we spent it on Spirit