JetBlue has announced that it will launch thrice-daily service from Boston to Dallas/Fort Worth starting May 1st next year as the carrier continues to solidify its Boston presence.
“We’re excited to bring our Boston customers what they’ve been asking for – more options for their business and leisure travel to Dallas/Fort Worth,” said JetBlue’s Vice President Sales and Revenue Management Dennis Corrigan in a news release.
It’s also worth nothing that the announcement comes after Spirit announced last week that it would start service on the route in March, though it will only fly one daily roundtrip. Spirit’s timing is also very different on the DFW-BOS leg – the airline is operating that as a redeye with a 1:00 AM departure and 5:40 AM arrival.
Dallas was one of the few major markets not served by JetBlue from Boston, and it got me thinking what cities still didn’t have JetBlue service. I decided to head on over to the recently-released second quarter DB1B data and find the 20 largest Boston markets, ranked by daily originating passengers. DB1B is quarterly and is also a 10% sample, so I multiplied the passenger numbers by ten and then divided by 91 (the number of days in the second quarter).
A quick check of the data shows that there are only a few unserved markets left from Boston. JetBlue doesn’t fly to LaGuardia, but does serve JFK and Newark. The biggest markets not served are Atlanta and Philadelphia. The former would be interesting to see, as it would mark JetBlue’s return to Atlanta since leaving in 2003, and plus AirTran/Southwest already has a presence there. I would be very interested if JetBlue were to ever give Boston-Philadelphia a shot, as Southwest launched that route in June 2010 but will be ending service this coming February.











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