{"id":27841,"date":"2025-10-31T11:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T11:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/27841\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T11:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T11:24:07","slug":"jetblue-found-its-place-to-be-no-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/27841\/","title":{"rendered":"JetBlue Found its Place to Be No. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear readers,<\/p>\n<p>When JetBlue repositioned itself as a Northeast-centric leisure airline after Robin Hayes\u2019 departure (for health reasons), I understood and endorsed the retreat. The airline\u2019s all-things-to-all people approach wasn\u2019t working, and it needed a reset under new CEO Joanna Geraghty.<\/p>\n<p>But most of us knew this regional focus wouldn\u2019t last forever either. Airlines rarely (or never?) succeed when they\u2019re relevant only in a few markets and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theairlineobserver.com\/p\/jetblues-top-priority-is-to-become\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">No. 1 in none<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Recently, though, the airline gods have handed JetBlue a gift. After Spirit filed for bankruptcy for the second time in less than a year, it slashed its schedule everywhere, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/living\/travel\/article311979351.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">including in Fort Lauderdale<\/a>, where JetBlue operates an undersized focus city. Even better for JetBlue, while some carriers are adding flights, no other airline (not even United) seems to want to fill the gap, leaving JetBlue an opportunity to command the top position at an important airport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dear readers, When JetBlue repositioned itself as a Northeast-centric leisure airline after Robin Hayes\u2019 departure (for health reasons),&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-27841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}