Logan Airport Flights and Airlines Discussion

Iberia is adding a second daily flight on its service from Madrid beginning February 14 and running through March 29. This will be operated using their new A321XLR equipment.

Be interested to see what they do for NS 2025 and if they'll maintain double daily service with one flight being operated by A333/350 and the second being operated by A321XLR? Or run double daily with both flights operated using A321XLR equipment? My guess is the latter.

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The President of JetBlue sat down with Globe columnist who had critiqued the airline.

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JetBlue leaders well aware of the work they have to do, doubling down on commitment to Boston Logan - The Boston Globe

JetBlue believes it can fix what’s gone wrong, and vows that Boston remains utterly central to their future.
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I mentioned the dreary and worn plane interiors I had been in. I described those planes rattling through the sky like MBTA buses with wings, and noted that JetBlue had the worst on-time performance record of major carriers and owned last place in The Wall Street Journal’s annual ranking of airlines, all while it has continued to lose money every quarter since the pandemic..
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He said that first and foremost, there’s a new leadership team that will bring fresh ideas and higher standards. He said they’ll be adding service at Logan even as they’ve cut flights to other, less profitable cities. And he said the airline is in the process of sidelining all of its aging Embraer 190 regional jets and replacing them with brand new Airbus A220s, which run on less fuel even as they carry more passengers.
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he said that almost all of the Embraers in the JetBlue fleet fly through Boston, because it’s where the flight crews are based, and the last of the planes won’t be retired until the end of 2025.

“We can’t get new planes fast enough,” he said.
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JetBlue’s biggest challenge, he said, is that it exists in this netherworld between low-cost carriers and massive legacy airlines, and even as it disrupted markets like Boston, it lacks the scale of, say, Delta, which runs neck-and-neck with JetBlue for most passengers out of Logan. And now, St. George admits, Delta and United have caught up with some of JetBlue’s innovations, like seatback TV and free Wi-Fi.

So they will double down on their commitment to passengers, he said.
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adamh8297 said:
There is part two to this and it is not good.

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JetBlue is leaving San Antonio, Minneapolis, and Charlotte entirely. San Antonio will be the largest unserved domestic market once again unless Delta adds it.

Amsterdam and Milwaukee will be seasonal for Boston.
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Given the relative proximity of AUS to San Antonio, I can see why B6 is pulling out of it. But at the same time, it's the inverse of what they are doing at MHT and BOS.

This is a huge boost for MHT, regardless. I see it as a way for JetBlue to boost their footprint in the region without having to spend on expanding operations at Logan.
 
It's going to be very interesting to see where JetBlue is 12-18 months from. It's not a good sign they are cutting business focused markets like Minneapolis/St. Paul and Charlotte, especially if they want to compete for business passengers to/from Boston.
 
mass88 said:
It's going to be very interesting to see where JetBlue is 12-18 months from. It's not a good sign they are cutting business focused markets like Minneapolis/St. Paul and Charlotte, especially if they want to compete for business passengers to/from Boston.
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My guess is that they join One World.
 
Beginning February 15, 2025, Southwest will fly BOS-MCO once per week. This is a route they cut back in September 2023. Not sure of the duration as I believe their schedules are only out through mid-March 2025.
 
Here are some of the seasonal JetBlue additions mentioned in the press release last week.

Edit: Cancun will be double daily too.

Punta Cana is daily up to 14x weekly on Vacation Weeks. Note not exactly 2 daily. Some Saturdays have three flights

Aruba 18 to 24x weekly - April Vacation is a borderline shuttle service with 4 departures on many days between 6:40 and 10:40am.

Nassau - Is all over the place - starts daily 2/12/2025 and its double daily come April - (Jan/Feb is dicey weather wise)

Barbados/Liberia CR/St. Lucia/Grand Cayman 3x weekly
St. Maarten/Montego Bay 3-4x Weekly
Providenciales Turks and Caicos 3-4x weekly
 
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Delta is going add San Antonio to its route map from Boston with non-stop flights set to begin November 11. JetBlue recently canceled the route and their service is going to end in October.

UPDATE: I did a dummy booking on Delta.com to see times and equipment. A220 will used on the route.

Boston to San Antonio - Dep 09:15 am Arr 01:13 pm
San Antonio to Boston - Dep 02:00 pm Arr 07:05 pm
 
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Jetblue re delaying the resumption of its non-stop service to London - Gatwick next year from March 29 to June 12.

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JetBlue is going to upgrade its seasonal service to Bozeman to add Mint A321 planes on some frequencies.

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JetBlue is going to push back the resumption of its non-stop service to Dublin from March 12 to April 17.

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Article on CNBC today stating that JetBlue is deferring delivery of 44 A-321 planes through 2029.

JetBlue is also short of planes because its A-320 aircraft powered with Pratt & Whitney engines must be inspected and repaired, if necessary. Over 1,000 engines (multiple airlines) are subject to this inspection. It will take approximately 300 days from when an engine is pulled from a plane until the engine is returned to the airline. The engine inspections and repairs will be done between 2024 and 2026.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/30/where-are-low-cost-airlines-cutting-back-now-new-planes.html
 
JetBlue has lost its way since Neeleman left. They lost out to Alaska on Virgin America. They couldn’t hitch their wagon to AA. They broke up Spirit and Frontier, but couldn’t finish the deal. They’re stuck in the purgatory of a mid-size carrier in the post-deregulation hellscape.
 
stellarfun said:
It will take approximately 300 days from when an engine is pulled from a plane until the engine is returned to the airline.
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For the engines to be inspected it will take about a year or just the engines that need to be repaired following inspection?
 
BosDevelop said:
For the engines to be inspected it will take about a year or just the engines that need to be repaired following inspection?
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The total amount of time the engine isn't on a wing is expected to be about 300 days, including time waiting to be looked at. The shops are at capacity, since the recall is hitting all at once, but MTU is reporting ~100-150 days in shop. That problematic disk is deep in the core of the engine, so it's not as if they can just stick a boroscope down the front of it and call it good - it needs to come out and get x-rayed, fluoroscoped etc. Even if the disk is found to be good, they still have to overhaul and rebuild the entire rest of the engine they removed around it. I'd say month long shop times isn't unheard of - airlines own more engines than are installed on their airplanes for a reason. They usually swap and go, but right now there aren't actually enough good PW1000s for them to do that - usually a jet engine will need rebuilds 3, maybe 4 times in its service life?
 
mass88 said:
Effective November 7, Cathay Pacific will increase its non-stop service from Hong Kong from 6 times per week to daily.

Boston will return to having a minimum of 3 daily flights to East Asia.
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The Cathay Pacific route to HK, the JAL route to Tokyo, and what is the third?
 
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