£40 round trip minus taxes for a flight in the states is not pretty spectacular for a LoCo, when 2p round trips minus taxes is becoming more and more commonplace over in the EU.
That $75 I mentioned is including taxes, Mark, not minus. I don’t care what country you live in, that’s cheap! I’ve seen those 2p round trip fares you’re talking about on RyanAir. By the time you factor in all the taxes, it comes out to like 30quid, round trip. Very little difference between that and 75 bucks.
At the moment there is little distinction between say JetBlue and AA, except JetBlue offer in flight entertainment.
Ok, lets take a look at a particular route that they both serve, LGB-JFK. That’s a 5 hours flight. On AA, you will get fed a meal, and believe it or not, there will be IFE in the form of a movie plus some other programing before and after. On Jetblue, you will get the PTV’s, however no meal. Just blue tortilla chips on a 5 hour+ flight. Now you tell me the difference? As soon as AA starts giving out just pretzels on flights of that length, then I’ll agree that there is little difference between the two.
Hold on! Aren’t Jetblue supposed to be the LoCo here?
Indeed they are! See above paragraph.
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