February 18, 2007

JetBlue

Harry made a comment about this the other day and I borrowed this summary from theFebruary 14th's posting from the Cranky Flier (great site):

Beginning March 19, JetBlue and Cape Air customers will be able to take advantage of a codeshare that will connect JetBlue flights to Boston with Cape Air flights to Hyannis, Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard, and Provincetown, all in Massachusetts.

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The partnership is a big deal for JetBlue, because involves codesharing, interline baggage, and frequent flier points redemption on another airline for the very first time. This certainly appears to be a test for the airline, and if it does well I'd expect to see more.

Sort of lost in the shuffle but still a nice move is the announcement that JetBlue will fly nonstop on Embraer 190s from New York/JFK to Nantucket from May 24 through September 24. They're really going to take advantage of the summer season there, and it seems like a smart move. Personally, I'm still bitter that I didn't win the limerick contest sponsored by Nantucket Airlines (owned by Cape Air), but I'm trying to forgive and move on.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

They ought to concentrate on the fact they have enough planes/crews to service what routes they have now!!!!I was delayed for three days !!!!!!!!!!

Bill Randell said...

Doug:

JetBlue obviously screwed up the other day and made some big mistakes. Overall they are a very well run company.

The point of the blog was this was a great thing for these small airports to have a feed direct with Cape Air into Boston via a code-sharing with a major airline like JetBlue.

Doug, let me ask again, humor us what do you do for a living??