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 [...]
Archive for the ‘In The News’ Category
July 25th, 2010
Suitcase stickers
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 [...]
July 24th, 2010
Your flight is now departing… for space
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 [...]
July 23rd, 2010
Dave on CNBC
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.
July 23rd, 2010
Weekly Airline News Roundup – Happy Days Are Here Again!
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 [...]
July 20th, 2010
Airline CEO says luggage is not essential to vacation
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
July 18th, 2010
JetBlue’s service lands customers
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 [...]
July 18th, 2010
T5 at JFK: Best airport cuisine
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.
July 16th, 2010
Draft beer onboard ANA!
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 [...]
July 16th, 2010
Weekly Airline News Roundup – Deciders
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) [...]



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