JetBlue’s (JBLU) Blues

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By Douglas A. McIntyre Published

Moody’s decided today would be as good as any other to downgrade debt in JetBlue (JBLU). Moody’s, as quoted at MarketWatch said:  "continued high level of financial leverage following several years of rapid, largely debt-financed growth of its aircraft fleet, and continued weak financial results … during a relatively good operating environment for the airlines."

Moody’s could have said that all of the JetBlue shareholders are nervous has hell after customers staged a revolt over poor service during a storm last February. Or, that pushing the CEO out made the airline feel a little unstable. Or, they could have said that Wall St. doesn’t understand why JetBlue’s stock cannot outperform that of a big carrier with huge legacy expenses like American (AMR).

Never mind.

Douglas A. McIntyre

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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