Link to earnings call
Mike Linenberg
Okay, that's helpful. And Dave actually to you or Scott
my second question, when I see you call out of a market like JFK
Charlotte and I think over the years we've seen – other sort of you know
New York to medium size business type markets, I think Columbus is
another that I can think of.
The question is, is that a market where you might still
be able to generate a profit but because of the flight constraints that
Kennedy, its far more -- makes much more sense for JetBlue to target
kind of lot of Looper than as a Costa Rica using a bigger airplane, just
thoughts on that? What drove that decision?
Scott Laurence
Sure Mike, its Scott. I listen -- I think a couple of
things about that. The first is, in something like JFK to Charlotte, you
know the routes that we cancel are performing below system average. And
that was a good example of one.
The other piece was we took that and given limited gate
space in Charlotte, we buttress the Boston schedule and added the
frequency there. And JFK, we clearly do have slight constraints and we
are optimizing those and continue to optimize those in anticipation of
operating to Europe soon as well. So look it's not a matter in some
cases of huge loss making, it's a matter of optimization.
Scott Laurence
If I can just add, I think one of the things I think
you're seeing is that, we are taking action when we see soft spots in
the network whether it was some of the changes to Long Beach or network
optimization 1.0 or network options and optimization 2.0. The team is
being proactive and making network adjustments as needed.
Our Comments:
We are pretty sure Charlotte was doing better to JFK than Worcester. ??
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