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JetBlue cancels more flights into Monday as it struggles with storm aftermath |
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Written by asap
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Monday, 19 February 2007 |
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JetBlue Airways said Monday that it would be canceling almost a quarter of the day’s flights.
The airline had scheduled 600 flights for Presidents Day, more than the 550 to 575 flights on a typical Monday. Of those, 139 flights have been canceled, JetBlue announced late Saturday night.
JetBlue Airways Corp. spokesman Sebastian White said the cancellations on Monday were needed to make sure all flight crews had gotten the legally mandated amount of rest before taking to the skies again.
“Canceling one more day’s operations will really help reset our airline,” White said.
All flights on JetBlue were canceled in and out of 11 airports: Richmond, Va.; Pittsburgh; Charlotte and Raleigh/Durham, N.C.; Jacksonville, Fla.; Austin and Houston in Texas; Columbus, Ohio; Nashville; Portland, Maine; and Bermuda.
HOW IT STARTED
A Valentine’s Day snowstorm on Wednesday grounded jets at John F. Kennedy International Airport.
CEO SAYS
David G. Neeleman, the company’s founder and chief executive, said he was “humiliated and mortified” by the breakdown in the airline’s operations. He promised in an interview with The New York Times for its Monday editions that in the future the company would pay penalties to customers should they be stranded on a plane for too long.
Neeleman blamed the crisis on poor communications and a failed reservation system.
He said the ice storm had left many of the airline’s 11,000 pilots and flight attendants a great distance from where they could operate the planes. He also said JetBlue lacked trained staff to coordinate the flight crews. | Only registered users can write comments.
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