JetBlue Blog

We may be the Official Airline of the New York Jets, but that doesn’t mean the New York Giants don’t jet with JetBlue, too! Pictured here are former Giants players Antonio Pierce and Jesse Armstead with EWR Airports Crewmember George Urbano before their recent flight south.

Airports generate a reported 7.5 million pounds of trash each day, and 80% of the renewable material does not get recycled. “It does not make sense to acquire oil from the Middle East or the north slope of Alaska and turn it into a plastic bottle, use it once and throw it away,” said Allen [...]

While at spring training, Boston Red Sox team members will be receiving free copies of their hometown newspapers — The Boston Globe and the Boston Herald — courtesy of JetBlue Cargo. Elmer Jeronimo from the Cargo Team has coordinated the effort. The papers left yesterday morning out of Boston and jetted into Fort Myers. Being [...]

And we have an official charter to prove it! During our recent celebrations, we received a 10th Anniversary proclamation from Mayor Crotty of Orange County, Florida, who named February 10, 2010 “JetBlue Day.” Check out the actual proclamation below.

There are those of us who would twiddle our thumbs or thumb our Blackberries out of boredom if stuck at the airport overnight, but this very inventive gal decided to create her own fun. Waiting in Pittsburgh International Airport for the night, the below video shows how the most sour lemons can sometimes make for [...]

Recent efforts have been taken up to address the concerns of travelers that may have  pet allergies. Several Canadian doctors claim that allowing pets in the main cabin onboard an aircraft poses health risks to customers that are allergic and are calling for a ban of pets on planes. “Pets can be accommodated comfortably and [...]

In what can be seen as a contentious attempt to punish certain, foreign air travel into the region, Iran issued a warning that any airline referring to the waterway between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula as the “Arabian Gulf” rather than the “Persian Gulf” will be banned from the Iranian airspace and repeat offenders planes [...]

Both sides in a pilots strike against Lufthansa have agreed to suspend the standoff — which has canceled hundreds of flights — at midnight (6 p.m. Monday ET). Visit Lufthnsa’s website for the latest news and see below for related articles: New York Times: Striking Lufthansa Pilots Agree to Suspend Walkout BBC News: Lufthansa pilots [...]

John Layton, Inflight, in his own words: I remember January 2000 when 50-60 of us gathered in the rotunda at T6 by gate 14 with our noses pressed to the glass awaiting the arrival of our first plane from Toulouse. When the plane landed we all applauded, hugged and high-fived each other. Fast forward 10 [...]