JetBlue Blog

Our CEO, Dave Barger, is on a whirlwind tour of all our 61 BlueCities during this  special 10th anniversary year, and this week he visited our three on the West Coast of Florida, Tampa Bay, Sarasota, and Fort Meyers (RSW, SRQ and TPA). The St. Petersburg Times ran a great profile piece on us.

Travelers at New York’s JFK airport got a big surprise today as our JetBlue Crewmembers marshaled in the arrival of a 24,000 lb, 38 ft tall Blueberry Juice Cocktail bottle with our latest Airbus A320 livery design, “Blueberries,” to commemorate the introduction of Ocean Spray’s first Blueberry product line! More exciting yet is that the [...]

Last Friday, JetBlue made a cameo appearance on famed ABC quiz show, Jeopardy! The $1200 item was listed under the category, “(word)+color)” and the clue read, “On Dec. 19, 2008, this ‘colorful’ airline became the official one for the Red Sox, though its main hub is in (gasp) New York.”

Did you know… that we’ve teamed up with a variety of other travel services – hotels, cruises, car rental services – to offer you some amazing, discounted vacation options? You can enjoy things like free night in Naples, reduced rates for Riviera Maya, air credits to Barbados, and even free breakfast in Costa Rica! Check [...]

It was a particularly showy week in the airline industry, though not necessarily deliberately so. The week was chocked full of big news items — some good, some bad, and some just plain ridiculous. Sad news for the week included the plane crash of Air India Express, which killed all but eight onboard. Also civil [...]

It’s less about seats that don’t recline or even proposed planes with standing-room-only; it’s less about paying to use the bathroom when there’s nowhere else to go or about putting a price on carry-on luggage. Yes, all of the aforementioned offerings big jet engines- and we’ve built our business model on the best-possible-avoidance of such [...]

We recently introduced the Pratt & Whitney EcoPower engine wash process, which is better on the environment and could save us up to a million gallons of fuel a year!

This week brought with it some sunshine, lollipops, rainbows, and everything that’s wonderful to the airline industry. Cape Air and American sprinkled some sunshine and agreed to sell seats on one another’s flights. We also entered into an interline agreement with American, allowing for easier connections from 18 of our BlueCities to 12 of American’s [...]

Multi platinum musician and producer, Wyclef Jean, jetted with us from Santo Domingo to New York’s JFK and took a moment to chat with Crewmembers, including our Dominican Republic General Manager, Kevin. Haitian-born Wyclef has taken a front seat in the Haiti relief efforts following  the devastating earthquake in January and took the time to [...]

The Real Salt Lake’s Major League Soccer championship cup along with team mascot, Leo, visited our Support Center in Salt Lake City, Utah on Thursday. The team won the league championship back in November, not long after we became official airline sponsor. Related: Real Salt Lake hosts Crewmembers at private practice JetBlue becomes the official [...]