JetBlue Is Slowly Increasing It’s Reliance on the Embraer 190 1
Oct3
The Motley Fool just published an excellent and quite comprehensive interview with JetBlue’s new CEO Dave Barger. In it he talks about JetBlue’s ability to compete in an increasingly crowded discount airline market, the airline’s expansions plans and the prospect of increasing government regulation.
Barger actually talked quite a bit about JetBlue’s increasing reliance on the E-190 Embraer 100 seat aircraft it is rapidly adding to its fleet. While the A-320 was once the mainstay of JetBlue’s fleet, the economics of the 190 are even more attractive as it moves into medium and small sized markets. Until now reliability problems have plagued the E190’s on time performance, but these problems seem to have passed judging by Barger’s comments.