Comments on: Virgin America Heads to Ft Lauderdale, JetBlue Announces Soon After

By: dave

dave — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:44:17 +0000

It is interesting to read this so many years after the fact. I have to agree with martin MIA is a pit compared with FLL. Jet Blue are doing a stellar job out of Ft Lauderdale….

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Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:30:35 +0000

[...] combines sex and business, as in its attack on Virgin airlines. Last year, the competing carrier launched direct flights to Fort Lauderdale from Los Angeles and San Francisco. Feeling the competition, [...]

By: David SFeastbay

David SFeastbay — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:51:25 +0000

Today JetBlue announced more flights out of SFO. Besides the SFO-FLL which just so happens Virgin America is going to do, they are also adding one more flight to JFK and two more to LGB. Both seem like another dig at VX in the JFK market and trying to combat VX SFO-LAX by adding more service to LGB. That would give JetBlue 5 SFO-LGB flights to try an match againsts VX’s 6 flights SFO-LAX.

VX would still have twice the SFO-JFK flights with 4 to B6′s two when the B6 service starts in January.

B6 will also add second SFO-BOS.

Sounds like more fueds between JetBlue and Virgin America will be taking place in the furture. It’s like watching one of those reality shows. What will happen on the next episode?

By: Martin Driscoll

Martin Driscoll — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:06:34 +0000

Lot of bad information from people holding themselves out as Travel professionals. Miami International is a pit and incredibly inconvenient and a nightmare to deal with on almost all levels of user friendliness. Fort Lauderdale International is clean, efficient, user friendly and less then 25 minutes in traffic from Miami International, it still quicker to get to Miami Beach, Miami Downtown from Fort Lauderdale on most days and at most hours then MIA because of the terrible congestion, poor ingress and egress and inefficient passenger processing. Living in South Florida most people who travel will tell you that Fort Lauderdale is much more convenient then MIA, some go so far as to skip direct flights out of Miami just so they can avoid MIA. I always look at the cost gap and have and will continue to pay a premium if not to excessive to fly out of Fort Lauderdale.

My wife went to Med School in San Francisco and has a lot of ties to the area, my sister lives in Marin County. We have a lot of contacts and fly ourselves to the area several times a year and the flights going and coming are almost always full. The fact that Fort Lauderdale is being chosen over MIA will just increase the routes success. Watch it will be a huge success and the route will expand if they can keep the price point to a minimum and drive a lot of on the fence traffic to get on a plane for whatever their reason may be.

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jetblue | sodini video — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:25:38 +0000

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By: Oliver

Oliver — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:47:54 +0000

at $99 each way and awesome in flight entertainment, why not?
enjoy it while it lasts.

By: CF

CF — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:44:52 +0000

Debbie wrote:

Now if we could only convince them that they should time the flights to connect with inbound New Zealand planes . . . I can dream, can’t I?

Yeah, it's not looking so good for that. You're probably looking at about a 9 hour layover each way.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:02:08 +0000

David SFeastbay wrote: That must be one of the greatest ad lines ever. But someone who doesn’t know about the Virgin America and JetBlue new service may not get it. But I almost fell off the chair laughing. I was going to type this same comment, now that I've recovered from the floor where I've spent the last few minutes laughing...

By: David SFeastbay

David SFeastbay — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:16:20 +0000

Ron wrote:

Well, Spirit is hitting back — their web site now has ads saying “We’re no virgin, we’ve been cheap and easy for years”. :-)

That must be one of the greatest ad lines ever. But someone who doesn't know about the Virgin America and JetBlue new service may not get it. But I almost fell off the chair laughing.

By: Debbie

Debbie — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:14:21 +0000

Just had to let you know that I laughed out loud at the alligator graphic at the bottom of the blog! Being the mother of 3 children with a Jewish grandma in FLL who won’t drive to Miami to pick us up, I was pleased when I found out that there would be direct service again from the LAX and SFO. Now if we could only convince them that they should time the flights to connect with inbound New Zealand planes . . . I can dream, can’t I?