Many 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 [...]

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 [...]

For some reason I was recently thinking about the long-defunct People Express and how they used to publish advertisements with all of their sale fares listed in it.  In 1985 the airline made waves by charging only $99 to fly from Newark to Los Angeles, Newark to London and Newark to Brussels.  I remember trying [...]

You’ll certainly see this elsewhere, but Lufthansa has purchased a 19% stake in JetBlue for $300 million.  Depending on whom you believe, the Lufthansa either made the investment because it saw a good deal with the weak dollar and JetBlue at a low point, or because JetBlue has major debt obligations and won’t have the [...]

JetBlue announced that it has partnered with Yahoo! and Blackberry maker RIM to offer free wi-fi on planes that will allow you to access Yahoo email, Yahoo instant messenger, and your blackberry emails.  The first plane to be outfitted with take off on December 11th from JFK to SFO, and could show up anywhere after [...]

JetBlue has a pretty good sale to St. Maarten and Puerto Plata for travel in the new year.  Seats are available for just $99 when you fly between January 8th and February 13th.

Book your JetBlue ticket with your American Express card by November 17 and you’ll get $25 off your trip plus you’ll receive a $25 Amex gift card  The deal is good for flights taken by December 18 (with Thanksgiving blacked out).

Not much to write about today, so I’ll pass on something you won’t care about:  EasyJet is purchasing former British Airways partner GB Airways.  The small carrier primarily flies to leisure destinations in Europe and North Africa, and EasyJet will use the purchase to strengthen their holiday flights out of Gatwick (the purchase does not [...]

After posting a surprisingly nice profit last quarter, JetBlue announced that it was dropping all flights to Columbus and Nashville.  The airline said that its loads on the flights were OK (if slightly below average) but that the yields (average fares) weren’t acceptable.  JetBlue has dropped cities before (Atlanta very early on, and Santo Domingo, [...]