Posted on 07/03/2015 6:03:03 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
No More Free Checked Bags on JetBlue. As of June 30, the airline introduced new fare options when booking tickets online, which include charges to checked bags, unless passengers pay for its premium fares.
Passengers purchasing Blue fare—JetBlue’s base fare—will now be charged $20 for the first checked bag when purchased during web check-in or at a kiosk, or $25 at the check-in counter, and a $35 fee for a second checked bag.
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Jet Blue can kiss my you know what. Flew from PIT to JFK with them a few times and liked them. Then Jet Blue ended direct service to NYC from here. Now I’d have to fly to Boston first to fly to New York. Brilliant move on their part. That’s when they lost me and others as customers.
So good for them. Hope Jet Blue goes the way of Vanguard. I just hope Southwest doesn’t follow suit. Love Southwest.
From my experiences talking with fellow travelers, JetBlue’s two biggest attractions were free checked bags and the in-flight (TV) entertainment system. One apparently is no longer available.
Despite alienating you and some others who liked that route, you can certainly bet they wouldn't have eliminated that route if it weren't in their financial best interests to do so.
Like JetBlue and this is much the same as other airlines. I am breaking 75K 2015 miles on Delta when I board my flight from Portland this morning. JetBlue is my 2nd choice airline.
It's bad enough the TSA has made flying a chore. Now the airlines are making flying both a chore and an expense. I used to love to fly. Now, if the opportunity presents itself, I'd rather go by car.
Cheers!
So flying would still make sense, especially now that you can take Uber from the airport to mid-town Manhattan for a reasonable rate (as well as to Logan Airport from Boston).
Another alternative (gulp) is taking Amtrak. Even that is better than driving between New York and Boston.
If Southwest doesn’t go there, I drive.
Yes indeed! middle seat, please
A friend of mine who travels to New York frequently goes by Megabus. Fares are cheap and she says she has yet to run into the unsavory clientele which uses Greyhound.
I am Platinum too. The airlines seems to take this charge of collusion pretty seriously. I would think it certainly is happening but not in an overt way. All the airlines know that if they all raise prices and do not increase capacity while fuel prices are low that SHAZAM!: we all get to make some big bucks. Not very hard to understand.
I am impressed that Southwest has not given in to the pressure of charging for bags. We are talking millions and millions of $$$ every year they forgo. Some day it will probably change.
I hate JetBlue. Southwest is so much better.
Howdy cornfedcowboy - I think you hit on the key word “capacity”
It really is amazing how full flights have been for the last four or five years. Doesn’t matter when or where to. Every seat has a butt in it.
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