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JetBlue Drinking American Airlines' Milkshake

6/10/2008 at 11:21 AM
Tags: Southwest Airlines, Frontier, JetBlue, American Airlines, Airlines, Airline Analysis (all tags)

Now that American Airlines is pulling back flights to the Caribbean, JetBlue is expanding its service to Puerto Rico. The low cost carrier is spinning the new flights to San Juan as part of its "commitment to the island," but this is obviously a cutthroat business decision to get AA's newly abandoned customers.

Not that we have a problem with that. American is more than halving its service to San Juan, making it harder to get to PR, and if JetBlue didn't step in, airfares would likely soar.

B6 isn't the only carrier swooping in to pick up capacity given up by another carrier. Southwest is slowly taking over Denver International as Frontier circles the drain.

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[Photo: Aaron Gustafson]