{"id":554,"date":"2019-09-07T10:57:02","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T10:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bostonairportexpressma.com\/blog\/?p=554"},"modified":"2019-09-10T05:34:25","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T05:34:25","slug":"jetblue-digs-in-as-delta-raises-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bostonairportexpressma.com\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/09\/07\/jetblue-digs-in-as-delta-raises-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Logan Airport: JetBlue Digs in as Delta Raises Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>JetBlue and Delta<\/strong> are subsiding their intense competition in Boston as both the airlines are approaching towards their respective goal of <strong>200<\/strong> departures per day.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bostonairportexpressma.com\/blog\/delta-airlines-may-soon-overtake-jetblue-boston-airport\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">While Delta is transitioning Boston into a hub airport<\/a>, JetBlue has made a significant investment in building up the airport as its second-largest focus city. JetBlue is also using Logan as its base for the launch of trans Atlantic operations in 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile, the competition between the two airlines and their commitment towards Logan has put the airport in a good spot. As the competition grows, the airport will continue to see significant developments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-557 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/bostonairportexpressma.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/boston-logan-airport-transfers.jpg\" alt=\"JetBlue Digs in as Delta Raises Competition\" width=\"859\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bostonairportexpressma.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/boston-logan-airport-transfers.jpg 859w, https:\/\/bostonairportexpressma.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/boston-logan-airport-transfers-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bostonairportexpressma.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/boston-logan-airport-transfers-768x490.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 859px) 100vw, 859px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During 2018, Boston Logan saw a<strong> 6.6<\/strong> per cent growth in passengers, with <strong>40.9<\/strong> million people travelling through the airport. In the first month of 2019, the airport posted <strong>5.4<\/strong> per cent passenger growth. Between 2009 to 2018, Logan recorded a passenger growth rate of <strong>60<\/strong> per cent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JetBlue saw an opportunity to develop Boston and Delta is following suit by trying to leverage its growing connections from Logan. Delta believes that the level of connecting passengers at the airport has reached the point where Boston can be declared as a hub.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JetBlue, on the other hand, has been and continues to make substantial investments in Boston. The airline is showing no signs of giving up its leading position in the market. These elements together form a platform that is proving to be prolific for Boston. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JetBlue and Delta are subsiding their intense competition in Boston as both the airlines are approaching towards their respective goal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,89,27],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-news","tag-boston-airport","tag-delta-vs-jetblue","tag-logan-airport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bostonairportexpressma.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bostonairportexpressma.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bostonairportexpressma.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bostonairportexpressma.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bostonairportexpressma.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bostonairportexpressma.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":558,"href":"https:\/\/bostonairportexpressma.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions\/558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bostonairportexpressma.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bostonairportexpressma.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bostonairportexpressma.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}