July 2017 - Jetblue
Being the biggest carrier at BOS, lots to discuss about B6. I'll split the information into Non-US (Caribbean and Central America) and Domestic. SJU is considered Non-US for the purposes of reporting.
Combined
B6 are now up to around 9m passengers per year and 10.9m seats with their operations and that will only continue to increase as they move to their goal of 200 departures a day over time and add more 321's to their network. a 7% increase in capacity has led to continued loads of 83% across all their routes as an average. July itself hit 1m available seats and an 86% system wide load factor on over 8,100 flights for the period. Domestic grew about 2% in loads July 15 to July 16 comparative.
Non-US
Given B6 is the majority of the Caribbean flying from BOS it makes sense that overall their numbers follow the whole of that region. A 12% capacity increase has had passenger levels follow at a similar level, thus keeping overall loads flat on increased ridership, seats are up over 1m with about 1/3 going to SJU alone and even with the issues there, passengers have increased by 19,000 over the year only MBJ and BDA have lost passengers over the year period, but both of those have had lowered capacities too with resulting upticks in overall load factors.
Initial numbers on the 321 Mint runs to BGI are promising with loads slightly above their 320 equivalents at around 90% overall.
Domestic
the main theme of the domestic part of the operation is equipment switches
AUS - big switch to 320's from 190's, 6:1 in favor of 320's, which led to a 21K increase in pax and an average 2% increase in loads.
BUF - added about 100 runs on 320's over 190's, but the overall ridership dropped by about 7.5K pax and maintaining 75% loads.
CHS - 22% increase in capacity, outperformed and moved up to 88.4% loads.
CLE - moved from 300 to 1,500 flights after their increase in frequency, 90,000 extra passengers and maintained an 80% load factor
DFW - almost total switch to 320's and i expect that to continue, 30,000 additional pax and an 85% load, even with the equivalent increase in capacity as a result.
DTW - had about a 25% switch to 320's from 190's, increase of about 30K passengers, but also improved loads, running before at about 77% on the 190's, but up to 85% on the 320's
FLL - improvement on all equipment, up to nearly 90% loads on ALL flights as an average
HOU - reduction in overall frequency, but equipment move to 320's, 14,000 extra pax and 3% uplift in loads.
SFO - Mint has obviously had an impact here on profitability, but interestingly ridership has remained largely flat, although i am sure B6 leadership are less concerned about that on this route right now.
Others of notes:
Drops in pax counts in BUF, DCA,EWR and IAD, DCA although capacity increased by about 1%, passengers dropped by 2%, IAD capacity dropped by 6% and passengers dropped by 10% and EWR capacity dropped 11%, but passengers only dropped by 8%, giving a slight uptick in loads.
Top routes per the numbers I have (in order of passengers)
MCO, DCA, FLL, JFK, RSW, PBI, TPA, SJU, RDU, BWI, LAX, SFO, PHL, RIC, LAS, EWR, PIT and BUF