An Email regarding the Jet Blue post below Explains why Jet Blue probably bought more airbus aircraft. "Jet Blue - they were buying Airbus A320s (I designed some controls that fly on it) 10 years ago when France was still OK. Once you buy a model it is cheaper from a maintenance standpoint to keep only that model in your fleet if it performs satisfactorily. There is also Brit and American pieces in the plane. Not all the money goes to France/Germany."