JetBlue Blog

Our Airport Operations Crewmember Kelly is highlighted in a USA Today article about airline employees who double as artists and performers for her moonlighting as a stand-up comic. “She interacts with the public at ticket-counters and gates all day but, unlike Steinmetz, doesn’t put many work stories into her act,” the article reads. “People in [...]

In some senses it was an action-packed week in the airline industry, particularly with regard to the devastating acts of nature in Japan, which caused first the halting of flights, followed by a return to air travel, and then a scramble to add flights to help people get out of the country. In most other [...]

Our new service out of Hartford, Connecticut is highlighted in a recent news story as one of the main reasons ridership is up at Bradley International Airport. The article cites our twice-daily nonstop service to Orlando and Fort Lauderdale with easy connections to the Caribbean.

The airline industry saw a good deal of action this week, from ongoing tension in the Middle East (and the not unrelated soaring oil prices), to consolidation announcements and new digs. The Bahamas is preparing for its new U.S. departures terminal while our partners over at Lufthansa showed off its new A380 service out of [...]

Central to everyone’s concerns in the airline industry this week is oil. Sadly, we’re not talking about tanning oil. Of course, as human beings we’re most concerned about the safety of everyone living amongst the unrest in Northern Africa and The Middle East, but the rapidly rising prices of oil due to the tension abroad [...]

After announcing our fourth quarter and 2010 full year profit, our CEO Dave Barger paid a visit to the CNBC studios to talk about our earnings and the state of the industry. His interview on their program Halftime Report focused on fuel and snow, and Dave also answered questions about international capacity, airline partnerships and government investment.

This week brought with it what feels like mounting tension from both the nature and nurture sides of life. The biggest story this week is certainly the unrest in Egypt and the impact it is having on the rest of the world (including the airline industry). With yet another mixed precipitation weather event this week, [...]

We’ve been nominated by FlightGlobal for the favorite airline viral video of 2010! Among the nominees are Lufthansa’s pillow fight, Cebu Pacific flight attendants dancing in the aisle to Lady Gaga, and of course our HILARIOUS “Ground Rules” viral videos. The videos are part of our new You Above All advertising campaign which features “candid [...]

Some weeks have the distinctive feel of “beginning” or “end”; of triumph or defeat. This week in the airline industry, many companies announced their fourth quarter and annual earnings, letting the world know — and investors — what the next year will look and feel like. Southwest this week announced close to a half billion [...]

Jaunted chatted up a fun and geeky airline find, a United flight captured in a Google Maps satellite photo over Chicago appears to have a rainbow aura around it (likely caused by several overlapping exposures taken, according to The Atlantic). The plane spotted in the satellite photos is not be mistaken with our JetPride flight, [...]