I see. I’m kind of hoping the American/JetBlue NEA gets terminated as part of this merger. American needs to fix their own problems in the Northeast, it’s their own fault for giving up so many NYC slots over the last 20 years.
I also think they’d have to divest slots at EWR and FLL so I can’t see additional flights there. Maybe Las Vegas and/or Los Angeles will start on JetBlue from Nashville?
Regardless, like I said above, I can’t see JetBlue increasing a ton out of Nashville because of Southwest’s dominance. Southwest will be running over 200 flights a day here eventually, and I wouldn’t even rule out as high as 300 in the long term. They need to bulk up in the southeast, and Nashville is pretty much their only option as Atlanta and Florida are too competitive for any type of 200+ flight operation. Plus, with Nashville’s rapidly growing Origin and Destination traffic and prime geographical location in the center of the eastern United States, it’s pretty attractive to put a large connecting operation like what they are doing in Denver.
Now if Southwest would just open a crew base here, it would be much easier to expand quicker…..
We’ll see what happens with JetBlue, this is gonna get interesting.