JetBlue’s Sad First Class Announcement

Dear readers,

Alaska Air Group, a very well-run, premium-style LCC, surprised and delighted analysts earlier this week by promising $1 billion in incremental profits by 2027 as the synergies from its acquisition of Hawaiian Airlines are expected to prove more than twice as fruitful as it initially estimated.

A day later, JetBlue, a far less successful (but improving) LCC, managed to place an article in the Wall Street Journal about its own turnaround, complete with a micro-scoop that reporters…