At 12:04 AM 2/2/2005, Mark Panitz wrote: >I was thinking of another reason for Jet blue >to end flight to this city >doesnt that flight have to go though customs? >and Jet blue is in the habit of turning their flight >around fast right? >so if they had to clear customs that takes longer I don't know that having passengers (and cargo) clear customs would impact your turn times. The plane doesn't go through customs, and in SDQ, the only delay would be things like keeping the cleaners off the plane until you got the passengers fully off, which doesn't seem like a big deal. Now, you might get a slightly higher time cost at JFK, where B6 has to handle any international arrival which has to clear customs at T4, and then taxi the plane off to T6 for its next departure, but that's not exactly a huge cost. (You have the minor amusement of either having someone qualified to taxi the plane meet the flight, or waiting until the crew clears customs and loops back to the airplane to move it) However, SDQ service has been cargo (and excess pax bags) heavy for as long as I can remember. Lots of widebody service for short flights. I could easily see that being a bit of an issue for B6's A320s. - David