50 Facts About JetBlue Airlines

JetBlue Airlines Airways is headquartered in the Long Island City neighborhood of the New York City borough of Queens; it maintains corporate offices in Utah and Florida.

JetBlue Airlines operates over 1,000 flights daily and serves 100 domestic and international network destinations in the United States, Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, South America, and Europe.

JetBlue Airlines was incorporated in Delaware in August 1998 with its headquarters in Forest Hills, Queens.

JetBlue Airlines started by following Southwest's approach of offering low-cost travel, but sought to distinguish itself by its amenities, such as in-flight entertainment, TV at every seat, and Sirius XM satellite radio.

JetBlue Airlines sought to primarily use the Airbus A320 family to ease maintenance, a similar approach Southwest takes with the Boeing 737.

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JetBlue Airlines's founders had set out to call the airline "Taxi" and therefore have a yellow livery to associate the airline with New York.

JetBlue Airlines experienced its first-ever quarterly loss during the fourth quarter of 2005 when the airline lost $42.

In October 2006, JetBlue Airlines announced a net loss of $500,000 for Quarter 3, and a plan to regain that loss by deferring some of their E190 deliveries and by selling five of their A320s.

In January 2007, JetBlue Airlines returned to profitability with a fourth quarter profit in 2006, reversing a quarterly loss in the year-earlier period.

JetBlue Airlines had politicked the board, while Neeleman was busy publicly apologizing.

JetBlue Airlines became JetBlue's new chief executive officer on May 10,2007.

In 2007, JetBlue Airlines was facing reliability problems with its Embraer 190 fleet.

On November 8,2007, JetBlue Airlines appointed Ed Barnes as interim CFO, following the resignation of former CFO John Harvey.

In 2008, JetBlue partnered with Irish flag carrier Aer Lingus to allow passengers to switch between airlines on a single ticket for flights with connections in either New York JFK or Boston.

On March 19,2008, JetBlue Airlines added Orlando, Florida, as a gateway focus city to international destinations in the Caribbean, Mexico, and South America.

On May 21,2008, JetBlue Airlines named Joel Peterson chairman and Frank Sica vice chairman of its board of directors, replacing David Neeleman, who stepped down as CEO in 2007.

In September 2008, JetBlue Airlines began operating Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's campaign aircraft, an E190.

On October 22,2008, JetBlue opened its new primary hub at John F Kennedy International Airport, Terminal 5, or simply T5, costing approximately $800 million to create.

In 2009, JetBlue Airlines announced that it was looking for a new headquarters location, and was considering moving either within the New York City metropolitan area or to the Orlando, Florida, area.

In 2010, JetBlue entered into interline booking agreements with South African Airways and American Airlines to facilitate luggage transfers between airlines for passengers with connecting flights on a different carrier.

On March 22,2010, JetBlue Airlines announced it headquarters would remain in the New York City area, in Long Island City, because of the airline's historical links to the city, the cost of staff relocations, the airline's desire to retain access to financial markets, and because Aer Lingus and Lufthansa, JetBlue Airlines's marketing partners, fly into JFK Airport.

JetBlue Airlines planned to combine its Forest Hills and Darien, Connecticut, offices, together about 1,000 employees, into about 200,000 square feet in the Brewster Building by mid-2012.

On March 22,2010, JetBlue Airlines turned down incentives from the City of Orlando and announced its headquarters would keep its Forest Hills office, start leasing and using a new office in the Brewster Building in Long Island City, New York.

In 2011, JetBlue Airlines made interline agreements with Virgin Atlantic and Jet Airways, both of which have since been terminated.

On June 13,2012, JetBlue Airlines ranked 'Highest in Customer Satisfaction Among Low Cost Carriers in North America' by JD Power and Associates for the eighth year in a row.

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In October 2013, JetBlue Airlines introduced Mint, a premium cabin service on transcontinental and select Caribbean flights.

JetBlue Airlines was replaced on the board and as CEO by Robin Hayes.

On May 6,2015, JetBlue was one of the first airlines to be granted a license to commence charter flights to Cuba, with flights departing from New York City.

In July 2016, JetBlue Airlines announced commercial flights from the United States to Cuba would commence in late August.

In 2016, JetBlue Airlines had bid for but was unsuccessful in acquiring Virgin America, which was instead acquired by Alaska Air Group.

In November 2016, JetBlue Airlines painted one of their Airbus A320 aircraft, N763JB, in a 1960s retrojet livery, dubbed "What's Old is Blue Again".

In July 2017, JetBlue Airlines announced it was taking qualifications to develop a terminal at JFK that would not only occupy terminal 5 but the space of terminals 6 and 7.

On May 1,2019, JetBlue Airlines named Michael Stromer Chief Product Officer, Technology.

In January 2020, JetBlue Airlines announced its intentions to start becoming carbon neutral on all domestic flights.

JetBlue Airlines made changes to its operations due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated impacts on aviation.

In July 2020, American JetBlue Airlines joined the airline in a strategic partnership, which would allow both airlines' expansions to destinations, customer connectivity, and support of expansions through the airline's loyalty program.

On February 1,2021, JetBlue Airlines introduced its new Mint product called Mint Suite, which was to be configured on its entire Airbus A321LR fleet for its future transatlantic flights to London, and on some of its A321neo aircraft for select flights initially to Los Angeles.

On May 19,2021, JetBlue Airlines confirmed the start dates and destination airports for its planned flights to London, and by extension its first flights to Europe.

Later that month, JetBlue Airlines announced its intentions to execute a hostile takeover of Spirit.

JetBlue Airlines followed through on this announcement by offering $30 per share in an all-cash, fully-financed deal, lower than the original $33 per share offer, although the earlier offer would still be on the table if Spirit were to negotiate.

JetBlue Airlines's bid was initially rejected by Spirit's board, but on July 27,2022, Spirit announced that its shareholders would reject Frontier's offer in favor of a deal with JetBlue Airlines.

JetBlue Airlines's headquarters are in the Brewster Building in Long Island City, New York.

JetBlue Airlines maintains field offices in Salt Lake City and in Orlando.

JetBlue Airlines operates with most of the features of a low-cost carrier, for example, a fleet of new and efficient aircraft of one model, high aircraft utilization, point-to-point routes, relatively low distribution costs, and without membership of a major airline alliance.

JetBlue Airlines became the first airline to offer all passengers personalized in-flight entertainment.

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On October 25,2016, the airline JSX announced that JetBlue Airlines had made a minority equity investment in the airline.

In 2021, JetBlue Airlines became the first airline to invest in practical hydrogen-powered flight through its partnership with Universal Hydrogen, a company working on retrofitting current aircraft with tools to allow them to fly on hydrogen power.

JetBlue Airlines focuses on distributing fuel through modular capsules transported on the existing intermodal freight network, offsetting the need to retrofit airports with their own hydrogen fuel farms.

JetBlue Airlines E190 are not expected to undergo retrofitting due to the airline's plane to phase the aircraft out of service by 2026.

In June 2013, JetBlue Airlines announced that TrueBlue points will never expire for any reason.