Checketts wants to bring JetBlue to Lambert - St. Louis Business Journal:

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Checketts is a founding membe rof JetBlue’s board of directors. He said he has been makinvg introductions between other JetBlue directors and executive s and Missouri officials for some even arranging a meeting several months ago in New York betweeh JetBlue Chairman Joel Petersonand then-Missouri Gov. Matt Checketts, 53, frequently travels between St. Louis, SCP’xs base in New York City and SaltLake City, where SCP owns the franchisse Real Salt Lake. JetBlue is the officialo airline of the soccer team and Rio Tinto JetBlue entered intothat three-year agreemenr in March and will pay the team a total of $375,000o for the sponsorship.
Checkettsx personally controls morethan 73,000 JetBlue sharea worth about $277,000. “I have a conflictf since I have a personal interest in JetBludecoming here, so I’m just opening doors,” Checketts “But I’d love to see them fly The airport has that big runway and the capacity to handle JetBlue serves 56 cities with 600 daily flights. New servic e to Baltimore; Barbados; Kingston, Jamaica; and Sainty Lucia begins this fall, subject to receipty of governmentoperating authority.
Like many however, the company has experience turbulence over the past year due to high fuel the recession’s negative impact on air travel, investment losses and the credit crisis. JetBlue reported a loss of $76 millionm last year compared to net incomesof $18 million in 2007, according to its annual The company expanded its fleet by three Airbus A320xs and five Embraer 190s last It added only two new destinationsd in 2008, compared to five addexd in 2007 and 16 added in 2006.
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