JetBlue Airlines (JBLU)

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From The Stock Masters

JetBlue Airlines (JBLU) has been all over the news lately. Today marked day six of a continuing scheduling nightmare at Kennedy Airport that began after a Valentine’s day storm that left many travelers stuck on JetBlue planes for up to 12 hours. The good thing is there were no Snakes on the Snakes on a PlanePlane, and they weren’t showing that movie, which despite all the hype, just looks awful and unbearable to watch. But back to JBLU, today they said they were canceling almost a quarter of their flights but hoped to be back to full operations tomorrow. Last week a major snowstorm stranded planes on runways for hours and started a string of cancellations that led to JetBlue’s travel festivus. So the Masters are thinking, what will be the impact to JBLU shares? The past 6 months, JetBlue has enjoyed a nice little 31% increase in share price and shares are trading around $13.50. Don’t expect shares to stay at that level with all the negative press. These past few days of massive cancellations and loyal JetBlue customers vowing to never fly with them again is going to push this stock down. JetBlue has built a loyal following with quirky flight attendants, leather seats, 36-channel personal television monitors, and its CEO making weekly trips. Just wait fellow Masters, the downgrades will begin later this week. JBLU has posted net losses for the last two years, though it did recover somewhat late last year, earning $17M for the final quarter. However with all this recent bad news, it’s probably best to avoid the stock and Snakes on Plane, watch Airplane! (1980) it’s the best airplane movie ever made.

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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