JetBlue Blog

Japanese airline, All Nippon Airways (ANA), announced this week that it will be serving draft beer on some of its flights, the first airline to do so. Though the offering will only be on short-haul flights in Japan to start, it may set a precedent for longer flights and even for other airlines. Beer enthusiasts [...]

There were a lot of deciders in the airline industry this week making things happen. In an industry that sometimes takes a long time to push through change and to finalize items that have been hanging in the balance, this week saw a good amount of big moves and strong (though certainly not always positive) [...]

Marty St. George, our Senior VP-Marketing and Commercial, sat down with Advertising Age to discuss our new relationship with ad agency Mullen, our managerial transparency, industry consolidation, onboard technology, our new loyalty program and social media. “Forest Hills-based JetBlue has prided itself on being a challenger brand and, in doing so, has become one of [...]

With the Netherlands and Spain left in the World Cup, the closing stages of the competition mirror a showdown between the world’s major airline alliances, each of which has a flag carrier representing one of the remaining teams. Lufthansa of Germany anchors Star Alliance, KLM of the Netherlands anchors SkyTeam is a leader in oneworld. [...]

This week in the airline industry was action-packed, starting with the missing luggage of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu (even if you’re a national leader or a super hero, your luggage can still get lost), which included his bodyguards’ guns. And as the action ensues on the field during the World Cup, so too does the [...]

It seems the scourge of lost luggage can hit anyone – even a prime minister. A checked bag traveling with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on American Airlines was misrouted from JFK to LAX instead of to Washington, where the PM is meeting with President Obama. At least one handgun belonging to his bodyguards was [...]

The Boston Globe ran an article this past weekend about our success in Boston against the backdrop of an otherwise shrinking industry. Did you know that we are now the largest carrier at Logan and offer more nonstop destinations than any other airline ever has? We flew 3.7 million customers out of BOS in 2009, [...]

The smoking ban on planes went into affect 20 years ago, yet there are still hundreds of reported incidences where passengers light up on inflight. Though the act is a federal crime and perpetrators are subject to arrest, the FAA shows an average of two people each week that violate the law, including an incident [...]

There was a lot of finger pointing this week (except for us, of course)! There was some vile, stinky, no-good news to come out of the industry this week, starting with a finger pointing at US Airways for maggots flying from the overhead bin onto passengers laps and hair and such. The FDA found this [...]

A US Airways flight out of Atlanta yesterday was forced back to the gate when maggots started falling from an overhead bin. A passenger onboard had stowed a container of spoiled meat in the overhead bin that was “leaking” maggots onto seated people below. The plane was taken back to the gate immediately, deplaned, and [...]