jetBlue has expanded its codeshare agreement with Air Serbia to include a number of routes, complementing its existing codeshare from New York and Chicago to Belgrade. As of this month, jetBlue has placed its designator code and flight numbers from/to Belgrade to/from Amsterdam, Athens, Bucharest, Budapest, Larnaca, Paris, Prague, Sofia, and Vienna. Air Serbia already codeshares on over a dozen jetBlue destinations from New York JFK.
Awesome to see JU expanding their partnership with a US airline.
ReplyDeleteWhat are the chances of JU codesharing on JetBlue JFK-LHR/CDG flights?
ReplyDeleteI don't see why JU would want to. The whole point of finding a US partner was to enable onward US connections from JU long-haul flights, not to outsource a part of the long-haul traffic to them.
DeleteI think they should outsource some of it at least the JFK-CDG-BEG sector!
DeleteAnon @10:23 - why? Care to elaborate, please?
DeleteI'm not 10.23 but it is about redudancy. You have alternate option if something goes wrong, you can reroute some passengers, etc. You can always make those connection more expensive initially than your own flight, so you minimize canibalizaton but you get some felixibility.
DeleteYou can reroute the passangers regardless of codeshare agreements. KLM always reroutes me using Lufthansa, they have no codeshare, but they have some kind of interairline agreement for the rebooking cases. Having a codeshare agremeent is not a cheaper option for rerouting.
DeleteI am 10:23. Could not have explained it better than 11:29
DeleteWhen involuntary rerouting happens, airlines have a special pricing procedure so it is not the normal price available to the public
DeleteAnd rerouting is meant to happen with the quickest option available and not just on your alliance or code-share partners, literally any airline under IATA rules.
DeleteAnonymous 12:48 - in practice it is not always like that.
DeleteI don't know enough to tell whether it's worth it on the balance - but an additional reason to have some codeshare with JetBlue on JFK-LHR/CDG flights would be to beef up the schedule. Frequencies matter, especially to the premium customer (and while many JU pax are not 'premium', they do put a premium on their direct flights to the USA, and these premium customers, who are often schedule-sensitive, are the most important customers to capture)
DeleteJet Blue is a no frills Low cost Airline. Why doesn't JU code share with American or Delta instead?
ReplyDeleteHave you ever flown with JetBlue? Experts everywhere.
DeleteJetBlue is very much full service low cost carrier. It's mint service is the benchmark which Delta, American and United are trying to emulate. Stop making comments if you have not been on them or don't know anything about them.
DeleteAnd also know that some US low cost carriers provide much better service that legacy carriers. For example, JetBlue and Southwest are much better service wise than AA or UA. It is not like Ryanair or Wizz.
DeleteJetblu sure offers lots of frills for a LCC. On service level, they are on par with Delta and above the rest of US carriers.
Deletenot sure about AA, but UA gave me much better service than Swiss did on TATL.
Deletein terms of food and beverages and Flight attendant politeness.
I wonder when airlines such as JetBlue will start direct flights to destinations such Sofia and Bucharest instead of codesharing. Eastern Europe is considerably less connected to the US
ReplyDeleteThey don't have the aircraft for such routes.
DeleteI find it funny that if you try to book these flights on the B6 website it says they're operated by Jat Airways
ReplyDeleteSome smaller Star Alliance members can't get bigger alliance members to allow them codeshare on the same number of destinations JetBlue and Air Serbia have. That's funny.
DeleteThey do fit well with each other.
ReplyDeleteBoth are airlines that are much underestimated.