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Jetblue capping Florida flights at $99
« on: September 07, 2017, 05:30:33 AM »
http://www.businessinsider.com/hurricane-irma-evacuation-jetblue-discounts-flights-99-dollars-2017-9

allot of availability over the next couple days.

Its nice to see an airline take a step in the right direction

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Re: Jetblue capping Florida flights at $99
« Reply #1 on: September 07, 2017, 07:59:23 AM »




allot of availability over the next couple days.


Yesterday I serached to NYC, matrix showed space on all Airline while in GDS they were all zero

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Re: Jetblue capping Florida flights at $99
« Reply #2 on: September 07, 2017, 08:34:46 AM »
Only Jetblue. Very responsible of them.

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Re: Jetblue capping Florida flights at $99
« Reply #3 on: September 07, 2017, 08:42:02 AM »
Easy to offer a $99 cap when there are no flights for sale.
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Re: Jetblue capping Florida flights at $99
« Reply #4 on: September 07, 2017, 08:48:23 AM »
Easy to offer a $99 cap when there are no flights for sale.
allot of availability over the next couple days.
What gives?

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Re: Jetblue capping Florida flights at $99
« Reply #5 on: September 07, 2017, 09:48:09 AM »
Such a farce. As soon as this article came out I was searching for my grandparents and there was one flight available through Boston on Friday night for 160 with one seat left.

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Re: Jetblue capping Florida flights at $99
« Reply #6 on: September 07, 2017, 09:54:11 AM »
Untrue - they had seats available, and some of my relatives have gotten $99 flight for today. They were just sold out quickly.

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Re: Jetblue capping Florida flights at $99
« Reply #7 on: September 07, 2017, 10:24:09 AM »
Easy to offer a $99 cap when there are no flights for sale.

+1

There were many with only 1 seat left at $99, but it errors out when you move on to put in passenger info.

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Re: Jetblue capping Florida flights at $99
« Reply #8 on: September 07, 2017, 02:39:53 PM »
Easy to offer a $99 cap when there are no flights for sale.
They can only fly so many flights out of those airports, what exactly do you want out of them?

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Re: Jetblue capping Florida flights at $99
« Reply #9 on: September 07, 2017, 02:43:39 PM »
They can only fly so many flights out of those airports, what exactly do you want out of them?
They advertised $99 after they already sold out all of their flights at much higher prices when people complained about the prices.
They sold a few straggling seats for $99.
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Re: Jetblue capping Florida flights at $99
« Reply #10 on: September 07, 2017, 02:44:07 PM »
They can only fly so many flights out of those airports, what exactly do you want out of them?

+1

There was availability when they posted, But like any hot deal, things sell out quick

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Re: Jetblue capping Florida flights at $99
« Reply #11 on: September 07, 2017, 02:44:57 PM »
They advertised $99 after they already sold out all of their flights at much higher prices when people complained about the prices.
They sold a few straggling seats for $99.


They said they added more flights too, is that untrue?

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Re: Jetblue capping Florida flights at $99
« Reply #12 on: September 07, 2017, 02:47:57 PM »
They advertised $99 after they already sold out all of their flights at much higher prices when people complained about the prices.
They sold a few straggling seats for $99.
+1

There has not been a single seat since yesterday afternoon.
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Re: Jetblue capping Florida flights at $99
« Reply #13 on: September 07, 2017, 02:49:00 PM »
+1

There was availability when they posted, But like any hot deal, things sell out quick
+1.

Any potential arbitrage situation will be taken advantage of until no longer available, if it's known that the demand outstrips quantity at the available price.
Who do you think you are fooling? You think you are going to pull a quick one on your Creator? Good luck with that.
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Re: Jetblue capping Florida flights at $99
« Reply #14 on: September 07, 2017, 02:49:36 PM »
+1

There was availability when they posted, But like any hot deal, things sell out quick
+1.

Any potential arbitrage situation will be taken advantage of until no longer available, if it's known that the demand outstrips quantity at the available price.
-1
I didn't see anything but random single seats left even before that announced it. They announced it because of bad PR and because they had almost zero inventory left.
Yes, a few people got lucky. But this was for a miniscule amount of seats.
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Re: Jetblue capping Florida flights at $99
« Reply #15 on: September 07, 2017, 03:11:47 PM »
http://www.businessinsider.com/hurricane-irma-evacuation-jetblue-discounts-flights-99-dollars-2017-9

allot of availability over the next couple days.

Its nice to see an airline take a step in the right direction
This thread was made about 24 hours after Lucky first reported about and was all over the news, so why would there be anything available now?

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Re: Jetblue capping Florida flights at $99
« Reply #16 on: September 07, 2017, 03:12:45 PM »
Bottom line is it was a successful pr stunt

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Re: Jetblue capping Florida flights at $99
« Reply #17 on: September 07, 2017, 03:16:17 PM »
Bottom line is it was a successful pr stunt
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Re: Jetblue capping Florida flights at $99
« Reply #18 on: September 07, 2017, 03:33:16 PM »
This thread was made about 24 hours after Lucky first reported about and was all over the news, so why would there be anything available now?
THere wasn't much available then either.

Would they have announced this on Sunday I would've given them credit...
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Re: Jetblue capping Florida flights at $99
« Reply #19 on: September 08, 2017, 07:08:42 AM »
Doesn't JetBlue have a price guarante for 14 days? So if you previously paid more, you can at least call and get an adjustment?