Jet Blue, the mostly East Coast airline that is the darling of the investment community, does not have any flights into or out of DFW or Love Field. So why has the airline’s recent travel woes been so heavily covered in the Dallas-Fort Worth media in the last several days? Channel 5 ran stories the last two days and Dallas’ Only Daily Newspaper has also played it up.
Some of it is because TV loves to show video of stranded passengers who are whining. More importantly, though, let’s remember who two of the most influential companies (and advertisers) are in the Dallas-Fort Worth market. That would be Southwest, which Jet Blue says it wants to emulate and then overtake, and always struggling American. Which means bad news for the competition is good news for the home team.
