How Jetblue Got Its Wings Back
The Editors of New Word City
For JetBlue’s more than 100,000 stranded passengers, the February 14 ice storm of 2007 was the Valentine’s Day Massacre: a bloodbath of endless lines, waiting in airports for days on end, or—even and—being held hostage for as long as ten and a half hours in grounded airplanes. The ice storm hit JetBlue’s operational center, JFK airport, but delays soon spread to all 56 of its destinations. It took six full days to get back to normal. More than 1,000 flights were canceled, in excess of 100,000 passengers were stranded, and 2,500 bags went astray—many of them piling up in a huge mountain ...
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