The short check-in time is facilitated by the aircraft parking
Just looked up a flight. They appear to have 1 flight daily between Dallas and Houston. So the better question is, how is this upstart going to compete with Southwest, which just added flights to Houston Hobby, as part of a recently announced schedule expansion to several primary airports hey previously avoided, such as O’Hare, to name one other. The SWA fares are $153 one-way for remaining days in January, and between $67-$87 for just about every day in February. And of course, SWA offers many flights daily between DAL and Hobby, as well as Houston Intercontinental.
I predict we will be reading about the demise of JSX within a year.
Neither Dallas Love nor Houston Hobby are small airports by any measure. The only way to go from car to aircraft seat is TSA prequalified clearance plus arrival by cab, Uber, etc. Any personal automobile parked even in the lots by the terminal precludes any chance of boarding the aircraft with 20 minutes. And no mention of the time required to check baggage (yes, I realize most day-trips are carry-on only, still…)
You may be generous, California Pacific lasted about 2 months. OTOH, the flight from Carlsbad to San Jose was the most relaxing airliner flight I’ve had in decades.
JSX has been in operation since 2016. As someone who used their service from LAS to BUR, their operation is second to none. I was on the aircraft in less than 20 minutes on arrival to the Vegas airport, which is far larger than either Love or Hobby.
JSX will be shut down once they get popular enough to be noticed. Their bending of the rules can only last so long.
What rules are they bending? This is no different than the sell a seat or sell a % ownership services like https://flyxo.com/ or https://www.netjets.com/en-us/ in where they operate from.
Their demise will be their sucess. With pressure from the airports who feel like they are loosing money and from the larger Part 121 carriers who can sell seats at a loss if needed.
They’re acting like a charter service when they’re actually flying scheduled flights. They are trying to get around it by having the aircarft being owned by a subsidiary. That’s what got them kicked out of Santa Ana.
Watch the situation at John Wayne very carefully. If the county’s little machinations are upheld, watch as, like a string of firecrackers, other airports with money-losing commercial aviation act to restrict FBOs from serving operations like JetSuiteX.
Where that may become still more interesting is that many of the proposed regional feeder services would be expected to run into the general-aviation side of airports if “connecting” to scheduled airlines, and there would be significant benefits to the kind of scheduled operation JSX intends to run as opposed to requiring regional passengers to enter the terminal, pass through the TSA rigmarole, and then perhaps negotiate non-ADA passage to reach aircraft that jetways cannot conveniently access.
I’m not sure where the airport/airline dividing line is but airlines aren’t governed by the ADA, but by the ACAA. There are many smaller airports that don’t have jetways.
Well, not quite.
“The supervisors’ decision came after a federal judge overturned the JSX ban, and that ruling came after JSX filed a federal lawsuit against the county alleging it was kicking the charter jet service out of the airport in bad faith.”