United States airline January traffic statistics as released by each carrier. The main statistics released on a monthly basis illustrate the carriers traffic illustrated here as a percentage increase or decrease from the same month one year earlier; carrier capacity illustrated here as a percentage increase of decrease from the same month one year earlier; [...]
JetBlue will launch new service to their next Caribbean destination by adding Punta Cana on the northeast side of Dominican Republic. Daily flights will operate from New York JFK Airport and weekly flights on Saturday’s will fly between Boston and PUJ.
The flights will begin in May and operate using JetBlue’s Airbus A320 aircraft. JetBlue has [...]
Virgin America announced that their 3rd quarter loss was reduced to $5.9 million from the $59.1 million from last year the same quarter. They also said that they will be adding more aircraft in 2010 and 2011 and will begin flying to new cities. Currently, they are hoping to start service between LAX and SFO [...]
September 2009 proved to be a good month for the nation’s airlines posting the best on-time rate in six years. Combined, the airlines achieved a 86.2 percent on-time rate with that percentage of flight arriving at their destination within 15 minutes of their scheduled time. The ratings and airline rankings are provided by the United [...]
The airlines continue to struggle to fill planes and keep fares high enough to make money. October saw low-cost airlines continue to post traffic and capacity increases with AirTran, Allegiant, and JetBlue the only carriers that grew in size and traffic.
Allegiant continues to grow at very strong rates. Allegiant Air is a low-cost model airline [...]
JetBlue today announced a 30% increase in Boston departures by next summer, 2010. JetBlue’s growing base operations in Boston by next summer will be comprised of 78 daily flights to 33 destinations with over 1,300 crew members in the area.
The new schedule will include the following:
2 additional daily flights to Chicago-O’Hare (total of 3)
2 additional [...]
The third quarter had few surprises with the smaller, low-cost centric airlines posting profits, and the bigger guys posting losses. Some of the losses were smaller than expected, and some were rather large and foreboding.
WINNERS
Alaska – Net Income $83 million
Hawaiian – Net Income $31 million
Frontier – Net Income $16 million (consolidated July/August only)
JetBlue – Net [...]
American Airlines, seeing a threat from both JetBlue and AirTran, has announced the addition of Washington Dulles flights to and from San Juan, Puerto Rico. This service used to operate before cutbacks at San Juan for American. The new service will launch on November 19 and operate daily using Boeing 737-800 aircraft.
JetBlue recently launched daily [...]
The Depart of Transportation has released the August 2009 on-time report for U.S. airlines. The rankings are as follows:
Hawaiian – 94.7%
Alaska – 85.8%
SkyWest – 84.4%
Frontier – 83.8%
ExpressJet – 83.4%
Southwest – 82.8%
Continental – 82.4%
US Airways 81.4%
United – 80.1%
American Eagle – 79.6%
Mesa – 79.2%
Pinnacle – 79.2%
Delta – 78.6%
American – 77.2%
JetBlue – 76.0%
Northwest – 74.4%
AirTran – 74.2%
Atlantic Southeast [...]
JetBlue has narrowed possible locations for its new corporate headquarters to New York City or Orlando. New York JFK airport is JetBlue’s primary hub airport and their corporate headquarters are currently in Queen’s with some financial offices in Connecticut.
JetBlue recently built a training facility in Orlando and has expanded operations considerably. There is no timeframe [...]
The long awaited code-share between JetBlue and German airline Lufthansa has commenced today offering JetBlue customers in twelve JetBlue cities easier and convenient access to Lufthansa destinations like Tel Aviv, Frankfurt, Prague and Budapest. Connections are now available to more than 400 destinations in 100 countries vis the worldwide Lufthansa network.
Connections to Europe and beyond [...]
AirTran today announced yet another Caribbean destination to its network by linking both Atlanta and Orlando to Aruba. The new flights will begin in December and will operate on Saturdays only. This new service is in addition to other Caribbean additions just announced last week – Nassau, The Bahamas and Montego Bay, Jamaica. AirTran already operates to [...]
JetBlue, in direct competition with Southwest Airlines, launched their new service today between Boston and Baltimore giving Baltimore customers access to their Boston hub with connections to many cities throughout the JetBlue network.
JetBlue offered a $9 fare in honor of the date today 9/9/09 on their website through this evening as long as supplies last.
Here are some key numbers from US Airlines posted performance for August 2009…
AirTran – Capacity down 3.4%; Traffic down 6.1%; Load Factor 84.9%
Alaska – Capacity down 2.9%; Traffic down 0.8%; Load Factor 84.3%
Allegiant – Capacity up 50.9%; Traffic up 45.8%; Load Factor 90.2%
American – Capacity down 9.4%; Traffic down 8.1%; Load Factor 84.7%
Continental – Capacity [...]
CNN Money has a great article about JetBlue and interview with CEO Dave Barger. Good reading – check it out….
http://money.cnn.com/2009/09/03/news/companies/jetblue_airways_airline.fortune/index.htm?source=yahoo_quote
JetBlue and Lufthansa of Germany today announced their intention to form a code-sharing agreement focusing on the JetBlue hub of New York JFK Airport. The application to the Department of Transportation calls for unlimited code-sharing between the two carriers on all of their flights.
This agreement would open up Europe and beyond to JetBlue customers offering [...]
Starting in January, JetBlue plans to take on Virgin America as it ramps up flights operating out of San Francisco International Airport. The new January flights will include two additional daily flights to focus city at Long Beach near Los Angeles, for a total of five daily flights. JetBlue will also add an additional daily flight [...]
