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People who invest in aviation are the biggest suckers in the world.
David Neeleman
After raising a record $128 million to start New Air (the then working name for what became JetBlue Airways), quoted in Business Week magazine, 3 May 1999.
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He’s a nut job, but a focused nut job.
Robert Land
JetBlue Airways government affairs director, regards boss David Neeleman, quoted in Fortune magazine, 28 May, 2001.
Since 1978 the record pretty well shows that no start-up airline … has really been successful, so the odds of JetBlue having long-term success are remote. I’m not going to say it can’t happen because stranger things have happened, but I personally believe P.T. Barnum was, in that respect, correct.
Gordon Bethune
CEO Continental Airlines, regards the 70% rise in JetBlue's stock price in the days after its IPO. Comment at Continental’s annual shareholder meeting, 17 April 2002.
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I don’t think JetBlue has a better chance of being profitable than 100 other predecessors with new airplanes, new employees, low fares, all touchy-feely … all of them are losers. Most of these guys are smoking ragweed.
Gordon Bethune
CEO Continental Airlines, Time magazine, June 2002.
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It's either expensive or it's crappy.
JetBlue Airways spokesman
Regards airline food. Reported in The New York Times, 26 June 2002.
Nobody ever thought about having to protect the passengers from the pilots.
David Neeleman
His JetBlue Airways was the first to install secure cockpit doors after 9/11, but Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 made him wonder about other senerios. This quote was over a year before the Germanwings 9525 tragedy. Article in Popular Mechanics magazine 19 March 2014.
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It’s not impacting JetBlue in any meaningful way.
Joanna Geraghty
COO and President JetBlue Airways, regards the coronavirus, interview on CNBC TV, 11 February 2020. She may have spoken a little too soon.
Air Force One has more televisions that any plane in history. They've got them in closets, they've got them on ceilings, floors. They've got more … You can't escape a television.
President Donald Trump
Speech to the RNC, 24 August 2020. He clearly has never flown JetBlue!
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A naked agreement not to compete with one another
U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin
Explaining his decision to undo the American Airlines and JetBlue Airways ‘Northeast Alliance’. He ruled they violated antitrust law by “replacing full-throated competition with broad cooperation.” 19 May 2023. Reported by Fortune magazine.
Spirit is a small airline. But there are those who love it. To those dedicated customers of Spirit, this one’s for you.
William Young
U.S. district judge in Boston, in ruling blocking JetBlue Airways’ $3.8bn takeover of the budget carrier Spirit Airlines, 16 January 2024. More substantially he wrote the proposed merger between Spirit and JetBlue:
“… does violence to the core principle of antitrust law: to protect the United States’ markets – and its market participants – from anticompetitive harm”.
It seems that Spirit may disappear anyway, on 18 November 2024 they filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
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