JetBlue launches new US routes from Edinburgh and Dublin – which earn Avios

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• Andrew. says:

  26 Oct26 October 10:37

  For how long will BA (IAG/OneWorld) be prepared to sit back and watch other airlines syphon off trade from EDI to the USA? AA operated a daily Philly service for years pre-Covid.

  Looking at next summer, with 2 daily United flights, 1 daily Delta flight and now a Jet Blue flight, that’s around 800(?) seats day going direct to New York.

  I think that means at some times of the year there are now more people flying to New York daily on a non-BA airline than fly into London City on BA.

  There’s the Boston, Chicago, Washington, Atlanta & Orlando along with Calgary & Toronto flights too (some seasonal).

  Perhaps it’s a relief to BA? With the poor performance of the domestic schedules and frequent cancellations, the bean counters are probably all to aware than an extra 800 transitting passengers a day has the potential to lose them £400,000 a day in delay compensation.

  • Spaghetti Town says:

    26 Oct26 October 11:22

    Probably quite some time, seems like they don’t have the crews or aircraft to get their heathrow network back to full strength, let alone anywhere else.

  • JDB says:

    26 Oct26 October 12:46

    BA can do the sums, and it simply makes no sense for them to set up another hub which has lower yields. That’s why IAG is using EI more for UK regional and DUB departures going west.

    It’s the same in Spain – AA/UA/AC/EK/QR operate from Barcelona whereas IB focuses long haul from Madrid and uses Level to serve a few routes from BCN although that city is an economic power house. Swissair and Alitalia tried to operate out of second hubs, a significant contributory factor towards their respective bankruptcies.

    How many long haul routes does AF fly from LYS/MRS/NCE/BOD?

    • apbj says:

      26 Oct26 October 14:35

      I think Andrew’s point was not about BA serving the regions. but the fact that AA has been slow to restart transatlantic from EDI compared to its rivals, weakening the overall OneWorld offer despite QR adding capacity. Star Alliance has Turkish, United and Lufthansa to cover east/west demand and Delta/KLM also has a strong proposition.

    • newbz says:

      26 Oct26 October 16:59

      +1

  • sigma421 says:

    26 Oct26 October 13:28

    This should be AA’s job and in a world where they hadn’t let go of so many long-haul aircraft during COVID, I imagine EDI-PHL (and indeed MAN-PHL) would be back up and running.

• Danny says:

  26 Oct26 October 14:47

  Unless its only on a Qatar flight number but Jet Blue metal

• Bernard says:

  26 Oct26 October 18:02

  JetBlue product has been impressive every time I’ve minted across the Atlantic. Day flight from JFK also very good at beating jet lag into Heathrow.
  No lounges, and no alternative at JFK T5. But HSBC Mastercard gives lounges in U.K.
  Sometimes keenly priced too

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