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We’ve reconfigured our Embraer E190 fleet to offer two more rows of Even More Space seats.  For a small additional fee, sixteen seats in rows 1, 12, 13 and 14 offer extra legroom and are now available on all of our 100-seat E190 aircraft. Rows 1 and 12 offer 38 inches of legroom while rows [...]

We signed a definitive agreement with Pratt & Whitney for PurePower PW1100G-JM engines to power our order of 40 firm A320neo family aircraft finalizing the MOU announced in late 2011.  The agreement includes 86 PurePower engines with a long-term PureSolutionSM maintenance service agreement. Deliveries are scheduled to start in 2018. The PurePower engine uses an [...]

Due to negotiations between DIRECTV® and Viacom as of midnight ET, several channels are currently not available as part of our free onboard lineup. We’ll stay tuned for the latest from DIRECTV® and are working closely with our partners at LiveTV on a solution. The channels currently affected include: 1)      Comedy Central 2)      VH1 3)      VH1 [...]

For the ninth consecutive year, we’re inviting cyclists to enjoy a front-row seat to continuous, live coverage of the 2012 Tour de France, in partnership with NBC Sports Group, onboard our fleet of 175 aircraft.  Customers are also invited to get a grand start on their vacations and fly their bikes for free throughout the [...]

Our newest A320 made the journey to Orlando from Hamburg, Germany, home to Finkenwerder Airfield, an Airbus a manufacturing site. Here, Airbus performed special modifications on our new jet—You Had Me At Blue. Keep an eye out for the newest member of our family at an airport near you!  

Sign up to Get Away With It for a chance to win a JetBlue Getaways vacation package! Get Away With It is our real-time, live online game show with a live host and real contestants.  Game show contestants will participate via Skype.  The game features a quiz show format where contestants answer questions about travel [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Our traffic in April increased 14.5 percent from April 2011, on a capacity increase of 7.1 percent. Load factor for April 2012 was 85.2 percent, an increase of 5.5 points from April 2011. Our preliminary completion factor was 99.9 percent and our on-time (1) performance was 86.7 percent.  Our preliminary passenger revenue per available seat [...]

In just three months since we launched our very first iPhone app, we’ve reached 500,000 downloads! To celebrate, we’re giving away an iPad! Tweet #JetBlueApp to enter. Ends 5/10 http://bit.ly/JBSweeps Follow @jetblue Download our free app today!