36 Facts About JetBlue

JetBlue Airways is a major American low cost airline, and the seventh largest airline in North America by passengers carried.

JetBlue 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 is not a member of any of the three major airline alliances but it has codeshare agreements with 21 airlines, including member airlines of Oneworld, SkyTeam, and Star Alliance.

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

JetBlue 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.

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

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

JetBlue's planned initial public offering was put on hold due to the attacks and subsequent downturn.

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

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

JetBlue was one of the few major airlines to post a profit in that quarter.

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

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

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.

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

In 2009, JetBlue 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

In July 2017, JetBlue 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

In 2021, JetBlue 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 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 has entered into a number of codeshare agreements with other airlines, meaning airlines agree to share certain flights, which both airlines market and publish on their own flight schedules under their respective airline designators and flight numbers.

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