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Jet Blue Ready To Rock & Roll
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> One problem Jet Blue may have is that since the courts have allowed > the big airlines to institute predatory pricing to force upstarts out of > business – that may hurt Jet Blue. > Eg. Except for a short period of time 20 years ago, no one thot it > was worthwhile having non-stops from Oakland to NYC. Jet Blue came in a > year ago w. one filite a day – then by fall had a second – and now will > add a 3rd flite later this spring.
20 years ago, I’m guessing 1.) the East Bay wasn’t as built up as it is now, and 2.) it wasn’t all that easy to get from OAK to San Francisco (although I know that BART was early-mid 70s). If I had to go to San Francisco now, I wouldn’t hesitate to search for service into Oakland. OAK has a market now to support flights for both local service and service to San Francisco itself. Matthew 
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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – > One problem Jet Blue may have is that since the courts have allowed >the big airlines to institute predatory pricing to force upstarts out of >business – that may hurt Jet Blue. > Eg. Except for a short period of time 20 years ago, no one thot it >was worthwhile having non-stops from Oakland to NYC. Jet Blue came in a >year ago w. one filite a day – then by fall had a second – and now will >add a 3rd flite later this spring. > American Airlines, which only has had a nominal presence here in >recent years, is now starting up at least two flites a day to JFK. No >mention was made about pricing. > Jet Blue also will start 2 flites a day to D.C. in May. The only >other carrier flying to D.C. from S.F. is United. (No one from OAK). I >wonder if United will do the same thing American is doing and start >flying to DC from OAK?
Last fall, when JetBlue was originally going to start IAD to OAK service, United announced that it was going to initiate service as well. They didn’t mention anything about the competition, instead saying that they were just going to serve all three area airports, but it was pretty obvious what the reason was. After September 11, JB put off initiating service, and United dropped its plans as well. I’m not sure United will be starting new service as a competitive right now; they’ve got bigger problems to deal with at the moment. Probably the only way they could afford to do so would be if they declared chapter 11 and stopped paying their bills for a while. Jeff
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> When Valuejet went public, it was the darling of Wall Street. The reality > sunk in when one of its plane went down and all sorts of nasty stories
came out. Wrongo. Even before ValueJet went public, there was already many stories about the poor maintainance of their planes–which were mostly ex-Eastern Airlines DC-9’s. Airtran solved that problem by tightening their procedures for aircraft maintainance–and switching a lot of their flights to modern 717-200’s. — Raymond Chuang Mountain View, California USA
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One problem Jet Blue may have is that since the courts have allowed the big airlines to institute predatory pricing to force upstarts out of business – that may hurt Jet Blue. Eg. Except for a short period of time 20 years ago, no one thot it was worthwhile having non-stops from Oakland to NYC. Jet Blue came in a year ago w. one filite a day – then by fall had a second – and now will add a 3rd flite later this spring. American Airlines, which only has had a nominal presence here in recent years, is now starting up at least two flites a day to JFK. No mention was made about pricing. Jet Blue also will start 2 flites a day to D.C. in May. The only other carrier flying to D.C. from S.F. is United. (No one from OAK). I wonder if United will do the same thing American is doing and start flying to DC from OAK? …mike – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – > From Bloomberg News > —JETBLUE AIRWAYS PLANS TO GO PUBLIC— > JetBlue Airways Corp. filed last week for an initial stock sale to raise as > much as $125 million to buy more planes as the low-fare carrier prepares to > fly to new cities. The 2-year-old carrier based at New York’s Kennedy > Airport added to pre-Sept. 11 expansion plans while (some) rivals scaled > back flights, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange > Commission.
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Thanks to JetBlue for helping Fort Lauderdale have a booming winter. Thank You! – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – > From Bloomberg News > —JETBLUE AIRWAYS PLANS TO GO PUBLIC— > JetBlue Airways Corp. filed last week for an initial stock sale to raise as > much as $125 million to buy more planes as the low-fare carrier prepares to > fly to new cities. The 2-year-old carrier based at New York’s Kennedy > Airport added to pre-Sept. 11 expansion plans while (some) rivals scaled > back flights, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange > Commission.
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When Valuejet went public, it was the darling of Wall Street. The reality sunk in when one of its plane went down and all sorts of nasty stories came out. Now, JetBlue is going public and Wall Street Analysts are having orgasms when they think about that upcoming IPO. While JetBlue seems to be a well run airline without old planes etc, is it possible that something may happen which would uncover all sorts of bad things about the way it operates ? (I am not saying it would happen, I am only asking about the possibility)
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From Bloomberg News —JETBLUE AIRWAYS PLANS TO GO PUBLIC— JetBlue Airways Corp. filed last week for an initial stock sale to raise as much as $125 million to buy more planes as the low-fare carrier prepares to fly to new cities. The 2-year-old carrier based at New York’s Kennedy Airport added to pre-Sept. 11 expansion plans while (some) rivals scaled back flights, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.