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Warning: Avoid JetBlue on cross-country flights

Traveler Brad DeLong sleuths out some sketchy business practices on JetBlue’s Boston to West Coast flights: The planes don’t have enough gas to make it when the headwinds are strong:

Thus a six hour flight that would be turned into a six and a half hour flight by strong headwinds is instead turned into an eight hour flight by an involuntary refueling stop in Salt Lake City.

Read the entire blog post at delong.typepad.com.

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006 at 11:46 am and is filed under Air Travel, Airlines, Airplanes, Cheap Flights, Tips. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Tags: JetBlue, Boston, fuel, West+Coast

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