JetBlue Blog

Airlines meals aim to offer tasty treats to their passengers, but have long struggled with the effects that low humidity and high altitude have on the taste buds. Lufthansa is facing the challenge head-on in one of the largest low-pressure chambers in the world, the tubular laboratory at Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics. They [...]

News to come out of the airline industry this week was anything but stagnant. Though the bag was mixed with both good and bad news, one thing is for certain – it was far from boring! Virgin America announced (again) that it would like to begin service from Chicago if it can get access to [...]

Our CEO, Dave Barger, recently sat down with the Chicago Tribune. Dave expressed our company’s intention to grow as a stand-alone airline, even as the big network carriers rush to consolidate. “If the industry ends up with, say, three network carriers, there’s going to be plenty of space for the JetBlues of the world,” he [...]

Sure to scare your fellow passengers (and possibly also security), Thrillist came up with a fun way to distinguish your luggage from all the rest when it comes through on the baggage carousel. “Caution” Thrillist warns, “Some of these stickers may cause offense to airport and immigration staff. But you would have figured that out [...]

What looks like the stuff science fiction movies are made out of, the Mojave Air & Space port is scheduled to open next year. The venture is a joint one between Virgin Galactic and Mojave-based aerospace firm Scaled Composites, with plans to build three launch aircraft and five spaceships that can take passengers into space [...]

Following yesterday’s second quarter earnings announcement, where we posted a $30 million net income, our CEO Dave Barger went on CNBC for a temperature check on where we are as a company and more generally to speak about where the industry is as a whole.

Happy days are here again… or so it seems. This week in the airline industry brought second quarter earnings announcements, most of which were good news. There was also a good deal of growth in the way of orders for new aircraft (thanks to this week’s Farnborough Airshow, the biennial plane-buying extravaganza) and airlines entering [...]

I guess we would alleviate dilemmas like the below if we agreed with Spirit: “oh man…i definitely have too many clothes for a beach trip. thanks goodness for the @jetblue free bag policy! :)” -@tarahope Original story

The San Francisco Chronicle as well as the San Francisco Examiner sat down with Dave last week during his BlueCity visit to SFO to talk shop. They covered our ratio of business to holiday travelers, challenges facing the industry today, the increase of fees in the industry, Virgin America, rail travel, and the future of [...]

According to a Best in Business Travel piece for Inc., a magazine geared towards small business entrepreneurs, T5 was voted the best in show for airline cuisine, calling the terminal a “foodie’s paradise” and referencing the diversity of options from traditional food court to fine dining and even our touch-screen delivery service.