The Safety Pitch From This Dallas Charter Airline Includes Open Air Terminals

JSX, a Dallas-based airline flying short-haul routes, mostly in the western United States, has a secret tool to avoid financial devastation experienced by larger competitors. It's fresh air, which can be found, in abundance, at many of the company's terminals. Since its 2016 founding, JSX has been unusual. JSX is a public charter airline, so while it operates some of the same aircraft as American Eagle, or United Express, it does so under different rules. Because its Embraer regional jets have 30 seats, even though they could fit more, JSX's passengers do not need to go through traditional security screening, allowing them to arrive as little as 20 minutes before departure. And since JSX customers don't use main passenger terminals — its aircraft depart from hangars or small private terminals — customers avoid most of the hassles of airline travel. In pre-Covid times, that niche was enough. People paid a slight premium to fly from Burbank to Oakland or Orange County to Las Vegas for a better product. They enjoyed extra legroom and free snacks, and sometimes bragged on Instagram about how they were flying on a private jet, even though they were not. Now, JSX has a new advantage. Its customers inte