There’s been a lot of talk about the American and JetBlue Northeast Alliance, but until now we didn’t have anything concrete. Things got dicey last week when JetBlue’s pilots voted down an agreement that would open up everything JetBlue wanted to do with American, but just two days later… the plan began rolling out anyway. Today, we’re going to take a look at everything that was in both American’s and JetBlue’s press releases.
Codeshare flights are now on sale for travel beginning this week, and I talked about those yesterday. American has put its code on 49 JetBlue routes, and JetBlue has put its code on “more than 25” of American’s routes. The release notes that these are all “point to point” routes, but that is highly misleading. What it really means is that the codeshare is only on nonstop flights, no connections are sold yet. These aren’t actually point-to-point routes. They are routes the airlines already fly that touch a focus city/hub on at le
After the torrid pace of change last week, things slowed down a bit in Airlineville this week. But that doesn’t mean that the data coming out of Cirium was any less interesting. In fact, there were a lot of thoughtful, long-term moves this week that should get people talking.
The Widget was busiest with a long term play for LA. At the same time, it delayed (or destroyed?) the dreams of focus cities everywhere. The Eagle decided to go big, and by that, I mean it ditched its smallest jets for good. And the Heart? Well, there were some notable changes in Chicago that left others scratching their head.