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Our Seattle crewmembers recently participated in the SeaTac Relay for Life walk held right at the airport from 6 a.m. – 6 p.m.! Depending on their schedules, our crewmembers jumped in and out of the walk, which was a half-mile from the food court in Terminal A to Gate A14 and then back—not just once, but many times to support the American Cancer Society.

In total, our Seattle BlueCity walked more than 36 miles and raised more than $500 for research. Our crew walked alongside 27 other teams representing other airlines and our partners.

Welcome home “Got Blue!” Our Orlando crewmembers welcomed the newest addition to our fleet—tail N804JB yesterday. After finishing up at the Airbus facility, our 122th A320 departed on it ferry flight from Toulouse Blagnac Airport in France at approximately 8:00 a.m. local time, making a quick fuel stop at Goose Bay Airport in Canada, arriving at Orlando late afternoon.

Keep an eye out for “Got Blue” flying to a city near you!

In addition to flying people to their friends, family for work and for play around our 71-city network and providing excellence in customer service, part of our mission to “bring humanity back to air travel,” involves engaging our crewmembers to do acts of volunteerism in their communities and the communities that we serve.

Our Boston crewmembers deliver the $10,000 check to The Jimmy Fund

In the spring of 2011, our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) team (who works to identify and organize support for worthy causes like our One Thing That’s Green environmental initiatives, our Soar With Reading campaign to promote children’s literacy, and Race for the Cure to support breast cancer awareness, to name a few), launched JetBlue Community Connection to reward and recognize crewmembers for their volunteerism, and to align our corporate giving with crewmembers’ passions. For every 25 hours any crewmember volunteers, we will donate one round trip flight to the non-profit organization of their choice. In addition to flight rewards, crewmembers can earn grants and be recognized for their efforts at the annual Community Connection crewmember awards dinner.

On March 7, 2012, we hosted the first annual event, with more than 100 crewmembers from across the JetBlue network gathering to celebrate the volunteer accomplishments of the past year. In addition to the individual awards, we presented one team, or BlueCity, with an award for their outstanding efforts. The 2011 award went to Boston, for their Wings for Autism program which benefited the Charles River Center for Autistic Children. The event centered on a field trip to Logan Airport for families with autistic children, which allowed them to get familiar with air travel in a realistic, but low pressure setting.

For their efforts, we awarded the team a $10,000 grant to the non-profit of their choice, and they selected The Jimmy Fund, which supports the fight against cancer in children and adults at Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

“We are thrilled to be the beneficiaries of JetBlue’s generosity,” said Suzanne Fountain, Director of the Jimmy Fund.  ”The Boston crew’s hard work, commitment, and devotion to the community and our cause is inspiring.  On behalf of all of our patients, families, caregivers and researchers, we thank everyone at JetBlue for their support.”

Learn more about JetBlue’s commitment to the communities we serve

We’re pleased to announce the appointment of Mary Neff to the position of Vice President – Supply Chain. Mary joined JetBlue in 2006, and most recently served as Director, Operations Program Management Office. She will report to Chief Financial Officer Mark Powers.

In her new role, Mary will be responsible for the planning of corporate purchasing programs, company-wide sourcing efforts and supply chain management. She will lead the procurement of resources including, but not limited to, office supplies, fuel, heavy aircraft and engine maintenance contracts, airport services, and IT software solutions.

Prior to joining JetBlue, Mary held numerous management positions at Delta for 12 years within the Corporate Real Estate department. She managed our recent move to Long Island City, and has served as Program Director, Airports System Operations and also Director, Airports Programs.

We’re springing into summer today with inaugural seasonal service from Boston’s Logan International Airport (BOS) to Nantucket Memorial Airport (ACK). We’ll fly islanders in comfort with daily jet service to our 45th nonstop destination out of Logan through September 4.

To celebrate, New England beach-seekers that take two roundtrip flights between Boston and Nantucket can get a third trip free, plus an additional 500 points awarded to the eligible TrueBlue account. TrueBlue, our loyalty program, is free to join and includes the ability to use points for any seat on any JetBlue operated flight, no blackout dates, and points that don’t expire if you fly JetBlue or use your JetBlue Card by American Express at least once every twelve months. Additional information about TrueBlue and registration can be found at https://trueblue.jetblue.com/.

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In addition to our new seasonal service from Boston, daily nonstop flights between our home base at New York’s John F. Kennedy airport and two popular New England summer colonies – Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard – begin today. Service from New York’s JFK to both Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard will run daily throughout the summer. A second daily flight between JFK and Nantucket will be added beginning June 21 through September 10, 2012.

Our schedule between Boston and Nantucket:

Our schedule between New York (JFK) and Nantucket:

Our schedule between New York (JFK) and Martha’s Vineyard:

More than 100 Floridians—travel industry representatives, local politicians, and voters—came together at Travel Rally Day in Orlando, where the Vote Travel Bus Tour landed recently. The tour supports the Vote Travel Campaign mission—to communicate the impact of travel to policymakers and candidates running for office.

Stopping in selected U.S. cities, the bus set up camp in Orlando and our Orlando crewmembers were there to help spread awareness about the importance of the travel industry. Local elected leaders were present, along with the respective presidents of the U.S. Travel Association and Visit Orlando.

Our 19th airline partner is here!

Today we’re pleased to announce a new interline agreement with Turkish Airlines, the rapidly growing global airline. If you haven’t been keeping tabs on Turkish lately, you might know they’re a whole lot more than just Turkey. In fact, the airline serves the most destinations of any European airline from a single airport (Istanbul’s Ataturk International).

This summer, Turkish will offer three daily nonstop flights from JFK to Istanbul and one daily flight from Dulles to Istanbul, with transfer via either U.S. city between Turkish Airlines- and JetBlue-operated flights while enjoying one-stop ticketing and check-in plus hassle-free baggage transfer and other benefits. Travelers can connect on these services to Turkey and onward to nearly 200 destinations across Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

Learn more about all of our airline partners

Today we launched our 13^th destination from San Juan Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport (SJU): Palm Beach International Airport (PBI) in Florida. To celebrate, flights are on sale now for as low as $93 each way from West Palm Beach today through May 25, 2012, at www.jetblue.com/new, for travel between May 29 and June 21, 2012. We’re also offering JetBlue Getaways two-night vacation packages, including hotel and airfare, on sale for only $325!

Our schedule between Palm Beach and San Juan:

JetBlue operates up to 21 flights from West Palm Beach, including Boston, New York (La Guardia and JFK), Newark and Westchester County.

Today marks an important unofficial holiday, National Chocolate Chip Day! On this day, we pay homage to those delectable chocolate morsels that melt in your mouth (and sometimes in your hands), and all of the wonderful treats with chocolate chips that you might enjoy.

If you’re traveling with us today, celebrate the special day with a bag of Linden’s Chocolate Chip Cookies, which we offer for free on our flights.

Wishing everyone a very sweet day!

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