JetBlue made 4 major rounds of cuts last year as it attempted to ditch business routes and shrink its way to profitability.
But the airline continues to lose money and cut routes.
The airline will exit Miami Airport after 9/2 with the end of Boston-Miami flights as it retrenches to Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach. The airline previously ended Miami service to Hartford, JFK, Los Angeles, and Newark.
JetBlue previously cut Mint service to Seattle and downgraded JFK-Seattle to summer flights only. It has now announced that Boston-Seattle will also move to the summer season only.
Other cuts include JFK-Manchester, NH, Puerto Rico-Cancun, Boston-Grenada, and Buffalo-West Palm Beach.
JetBlue will also reduce midweek flight frequencies on other routes.
The airline is also retiring 4 A320s that it had planned to refurbish.
The real problem for JetBlue is that if it has cut so much without managing to find its way back to profitability, what will there be left to cut?
JetBlue is counting on a new partnership with United to help, but what it really may be counting on is for United to just buy it outright.
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If JetBlue couldn’t merge with Spirit, why would a judge allow a merge with united?
That was the Biden admin DOJ. There’s a new sheriff in town.
doesn’t remove the spirit” ulcc option from consumers. also trump doj not biden
Will they at least keep the JFK – MIA route and reverse, going?
No
FLL much better anyway
Not if you have to sit in I95 traffic for over an hour.
I see the benefit for Jet Blue in a purchase by United. What might United get? Does it get additional gate authorizations for JFK or LGA?
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