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Article: Airline Upstarts Represent Changing of Guard for Travel Industry.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- August 19, 2002
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By Tom Stieghorst, South Florida Sun-Sentinel Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Aug. 19--Ittlo Castelanos used to fly American Airlines. But last week the lanky, 36-year-old New York City construction worker was on line at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport waiting to check in at jetBlue Airways.
Two and a half years after start-up, jetBlue has gone from obscurity to celebrity in the 19 cities where it operates.
Cheap tickets are the main draw, sure, but travelers like Castelanos also like the comfortable seats and modern aircraft, which lend an air of substance missing from earlier discount airlines. "I think it's a very ...