JetBlue Founder Reveals Details on His New Tech-Focused International Airline
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David Neeleman argues that the competition won't be able to touch his new airline, which likely won't be named Moxy, because it will be so different. Plenty of other airlines will have something to say about that.
JetBlue founder David Neeleman said he's ready for when competitors try to crush his proposed new U.S. low-cost carrier when it starts flying in 2021.
"I'll just do stuff they can't do," Neeleman said, adding that Brazil's Azul, which he also founded and serves as chairman, will feed traffic to the new airline, code-named Moxy.
“There are some things structurally they cannot do," Neeleman said, referring to the competition. "Because I own Azul, Azul can handle me in Brazil. They can feed me … they can do all the stuff that they’ll never do for anyone else because I control the company.”
Neeleman also claimed that the new airline, which he said probably won't be named Moxy, will fly hundreds of routes, probably most without any nonstop competition.
"I doubt we'll have a single route that has any competition," Neeleman said.
He added that the airline will fly from the U.S. to Europe and South America, avoiding competitors' hubs. The A220-300 the airline will fly has the capability of taking off from "really short runways, an
