JetAmerica having problems with July launch?

July 2nd, 2009 at 11:29am Thomas V. Bona

It’s always fun when, a few weeks before your new airline launches, your reservation system decides to stop booking flights for the first month of service. That’s Jaunted’s report on JetAmerica’s latest problem with its beleaguered launch.

A tipster emailed us to say that it looks like JetAmerica cancelled all of their July flights. Sure enough, when we went to search for a flight on July 15 we were shown the next available date was August 14. Then when we tried again, the next available date was suddenly August 16. What is happening here?

Since we actually have a reservation on Jet America in July, we dialed their odd 727 area code reservations number hoping for answers. While we were on hold for over 10 minutes we were repeatedly prompted to email Michelle for “marketing inquiries”, odd for a reservation number, right? Oh, and at the 11 minute mark we got our answers.

JetAmerica: There is a problem with our server, it is only booking flights for August and September, IT says all should be fixed by end of day tomorrow.

Jaunted: So flights in July are still wheels up?

JetAmerica: As far as I know, yeah.

Meanwhile, Cranky Flier continues to be none too confident in the Airline Formerly Known as Air Azul’s chances of success:

I wouldn’t think about spending a penny until I see an airplane in the air on an actual flight with passengers. Something tells me that the chances of that actually happening has just dropped dramatically.

Maybe Rockford didn’t miss out on much…

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