Something about this is extremely fishy:
A man is suing JetBlue because, he says, he was forced to spend most of a flight from San Diego to JFK sitting on a toilet. The passenger wanted to get on the flight but was told that there were no seats available. He says a flight attendant offered to [...]
Fuel cost have caused Oakland and LAX to lose existing and planned service: American is pulling out of Oakland after serving the city for more than 60 years. Oakland has also lost service from ATA, Aloha and Skybus in the past month or so.
JetBlue said that it will not launch planned service between LAX and [...]
You’ll read about this elsewhere, but United just raised their ticket change fee on domestic flights to $150 from $100. Expect other majors to follow. Remember that JetBlue only charges $40 for a change, and Southwest doesn’t charge anything.
Read the Rest of the Story: United Raises Change Fee to $150JetBlue’s founder David Neeleman announced that he has raised $150 million and ordered 36 Embraer aircraft to launch an as-yet-unnamed airline in Brazil. Neeleman hopes to get the Sao Paulo-based carrier off the ground in early 2009. If you speak Portuguese, you can check out his site about the airline here. If you do not [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: David Neeleman to Launch Brazil-based Airline; Gol Likely Pooped Self (figuretively)One small additional piece of info about JetBlue’s new added-legroom seats: although they’re likely meant to attract business travelers, the seats are not available for sale through travel agents (which is, of course, where many business travelers must purchase their tickets). This is not the fault of JetBlue (it’s the fault of the GDSs, the [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: JetBlue’s Added Legroom Seating Not Available from Your Travel AgentJetBlue confirmed that later this year it will begin to charge extra for seats with additional legroom. Planes will not be reconfigured — the airline will now charge more for the first rows on the aircraft and for exit rows. While this is annoying news for people who have enjoyed business class-like legroom [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: JetBlue Confirms Added Cost for More LegroomA Texas man was sentenced to 10 months in prison after a drunken incident on a JetBlue flight from Houston to JFK. Jose Roman, Jr, got drunk and was refused additional drinks when he asked flight attendants for them. So far, so good. He then got rather belligerent, freaked out on the flight attendants, and, [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Do Not, Repeat, Do Not Get Drunk and Make Death Threats on a JetBlue FlightMany stories have been written recently about what the airline landscape might look like following the rumored mergers. These articles tend to note that travelers will face higher fares, fewer available flights, unhappy airline staff, and a general sense of miserableness once Northwelta and Continited jam themselves together.
That said, on a day-to-day (or flight-to-flight) [...]
JetBlue’s CEO said in a recent interview that it plans to offer an “enhanced cabin” aimed at business travelers when it receives new A320s next month. The cabin at the front of the plane will offer additional legroom for a higher price (I believe we used to call this “first class.”) Business passengers make up [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: JetBlue to Offer “Enhanced Cabin”I forgot to mention this 2 days ago: JetBlue has rolled out fully refundable fares (previously, their fares required a change fee, albeit a small one). New York to Florida is about $399 each way, while transcons are about $549. In many cases that is more than double the lowest available fare, so you may [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: JetBlue Introduces Refundable Fares