JetBlue slashes iconic business route in latest network shakeup
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The New York-based carrier filed plans this week to stop flying between New York’s LaGuardia Airport (LGA) and Boston Logan International Airport (BOS) in late April, as first flagged by Ishrion Aviation and later confirmed by an airline spokesperson.
JetBlue currently operates this 184-mile shuttle route six times daily, making it one of the routes with the highest number of daily frequencies in the airline’s network.
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The flight, operated by the soon-to-be-retired Embraer E190, has been flown since October 2016.
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JB has no direction. Fire the CEO. I was looking at the flights from Worcester to FLL in the next five days. Terrible loads, the time sucks for vacationers. Every five days, one plane is full, JB must have there hands on the plug. JB was a great company under Neelman, Hayes destroyed it, and the new CEO is not doing well!
I just looked at flight loads for FLL for the next 2 weeks and they all look pretty good with some being over 90% full. Not many people were going to travel to Florida in the last week considering school vacation is next week. I think JetBlue is fine. I saw BOS-LGA cancelled and thought there would be more but seems that is the only one. Winter is always a slower month. Travel season is here for the next 6 months especially since everyone has a different school vacation schedule with some having a week off in February and April while others have 1-2 weeks off in March and some have extended weekends for the entire month of March. Cant forget the college kids who will be going to Miami in March and Fort Lauderdale being less than an hour away.
Why wouldn’t we be getting a second Orlando flight for the month of April if demand wasn’t high? Why are we getting a brand new aircraft (A220) for the Fort Lauderdale flight starting in April/May if they were going to pull the route? Why are we (tentatively) getting daily fort Myers flights starting in the end of October this year? (Again that can change). I think Worcester is fine. JetBlue is looking for partnerships and not being bought out. It’s unfortunate they won’t try with American again (which was also part of the reason JB flew from Bos to LGA to begin with), but there is still benefits if they can partner with another big airline and United wouldn’t be that bad of a fit. Delta would be a good option but extremely doubtful.
In case anyone mentions anything, cancellations tomorrow are probable. Seems like they cancelled the Fort Myers flight to Worcester for tomorrow but are having an aircraft fly in from Boston to do the flight down there.
They flew an aircraft from Boston today Saturday the 8th and one other day this past week, why are they doing that? Next week JB is flying to FLL almost every hour. The four pm flight needs to go.
The aircraft from yesterday was because the Orlando flight had to divert to Logan. Not sure the exact reason why they diverted as there wasn’t any fog up there at the time (or at all that day). Tomorrow the aircraft coming from Boston is the same one that did the Fort Lauderdale flight today but is doing the fort Myers flight tomorrow. The reason they’re doing that is because the aircraft that does the flight before (Bos to Fort Myers) is already cancelled so it makes sense to do it that way. Unsure the exact reason why they don’t let it stay in Worcester for the night but my guess is this winter storm has to do with it or could need a quick maintenance thing at Logan before coming back or possibly how it’s easier to have the plane there and the crew doesn’t have to take a shuttle an hour to Boston to the crew base