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Plane availability. Jetblue and Spirit both have a strategy of lowering costs by only running one aircraft type, the Airbus A320 family, which means that their
by bobthepanda 3y ago
Plane availability.
Jetblue and Spirit both have a strategy of lowering costs by only running one aircraft type, the Airbus A320 family, which means that their pilots, flight attendants, mechanics, only need training on one type of aircraft and can be flexibly deployed, they only maintain one set of spare parts, etc.
The Airbus order backlog is several years long. If you need planes earlier than that, your only recourse is to buy someone else's planes.
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FWIW, Q2 2023, JBLU reported highest quarterly net profit: https://simpleflying.com/jetblue-record-quarterly-revenues-q2-2023/ https://simpleflying.com/jetblue-record-quarterly-revenues-q...
- atlasunshrugged 3y agoThat's the strategy that Southwest pioneered right?
- bobthepanda 3y agoSouthwest, Ryanair, EasyJet etc. At this point it is the bread and butter of a low cost carrier. JBLU originally started as one. Legacy carriers are more likely to get different types of planes for different missions, and pit the duopolists against each other to secure better pricing.
- selectodude 3y agoJetBlue has been flying the E190 for like two decades now.
- bobthepanda 3y agoThey’ve also committed to phasing them out by 2026 to go all in on Airbus. Still, the two aircraft fleet is a lot smaller than what you would see on a legacy carrier.