Jet blue wanted to find uncrowded crowded airports as it makes it easy to turn aircraft and Burbank (now known as Bob Hope Airport) and Long beach fit their bill Lax is always crowded and yes Burbank doesn't use jet way either (although it look like they had some kind of ramp to the plane instead of stairs on the news) also another airline that shun SFO was their competior Southwest.. there are two good books out about Jet Blue they sort explain the reasoning for advoidng Lax and SFO (and Now Long beach is jet Blue west coast hub as well) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com