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You Can Fly Free on JetBlue Next Month
Why JetBlue Is Flying
People for Free
Oct 20, 2018 10:40 AM CDT

Why JetBlue Is Flying People for Free

It has to do with helping others

(Newser) - You can fly free in November, if you like surprises. JetBlue plans to fly a plane-load of people to an unknown destination Nov. 27 to volunteer for an unknown cause for three days, USA Today reports. Anyone over 18 can apply here by Oct. 26 if they're willing to...

Pilot's Mistake Triggers 'Nightmare' for Passengers

JetBlue flight's hijack alarm traced to incorrect code

(Newser) - Some 150 passengers waiting to take off from New York's JFK Airport got quite the scare Tuesday when a pilot accidentally triggered a hijacking alarm. "Woah. My worst nightmare," passenger Alexa Curtis tweeted alongside photos of authorities surrounding and searching JetBlue Flight 1623 ahead of departure to...

The Flight Was Over Utah When the Man Started Biting People

JetBlue flight makes emergency landing in Las Vegas

(Newser) - Looks like we're getting a real Flight of the Living Dead situation to close out 2017. CBS Los Angeles reports a JetBlue flight had to be rerouted after a male passenger started biting people. The flight out of Los Angeles was somewhere over Utah when the man bit apparent...

Viral Pic of 'Nightmare' JetBlue Passenger Takes Flight

'The toes were in full wiggle,' horrified woman tweets

(Newser) - When your pilot announces your flight's cruising altitude of 35,000 feet, that shouldn't be a Manchurian Candidate-like cue for someone's actual feet to emerge. It's not clear if that's why Jessie Char suddenly found a fellow passenger's tootsies poking into her row of...

Your Face May Be All You Need to Board a Plane

JetBlue launching facial recognition program to make boarding speedier, more secure

(Newser) - "We’re rapidly moving toward a day when your fingerprint, iris or face will become the only ID you’ll need for any number of transactions throughout a given day." This from the COO of Delta Air Lines, which along with JetBlue is testing facial and fingerprint-recognition technology...

JetBlue Makes Everyone Leave Plane, Over Cake

Airline, family have differing stories about a birthday cake brought aboard

(Newser) - Let them eat cake? Maybe not on JetBlue. A New Jersey family en route to Las Vegas was kicked off their JetBlue flight after a dispute with flight attendants over birthday cake. According to the New York Daily News , Cameron and Minta Burke were off to Vegas to celebrate Minta’...

Man Allegedly Harasses Ivanka Trump on Flight

He and his husband were removed by JetBlue

(Newser) - A man was removed from a plane Thursday in New York after allegedly harassing Ivanka Trump, who was flying to Hawaii with her children, ABC News reports. According to TMZ , the man was "verbally berating her and jeering at her three kids" while holding a child of his own....

JetBlue Switcheroo Sends 5-Year-Olds to Wrong Cities

Mom Maribel Martinez is now suing the airline

(Newser) - A 5-year-old bound for Boston ended up in New York, and another bound for New York ended up in Boston last month when JetBlue mixed them up. Maribel Martinez says she was supposed to meet her son, Andy, at New York's JFK Airport after his flight from the Dominican...

JetBlue Touches Down in Cuba in Historic Flight

It's the first commercial trip in more than 50 years

(Newser) - Milestone: The first commercial flight between the US and Cuba in more than a half century landed in the central city of Santa Clara on Wednesday morning, re-establishing regular air service severed at the height of the Cold War, reports the AP . The jaunt from Fort Lauderdale took only 45...

24 Hurt on &#39;Rocky&#39; JetBlue Flight
24 Hurt on 'Rocky' JetBlue Flight
Aug 12, 2016 8:50 AM CDT

24 Hurt on 'Rocky' JetBlue Flight

Witnesses saw people thrown to the ceiling

(Newser) - "It was as if you're on an elevator, 50 stories high ... then you hit the bottom," a passenger tells ABC News of a JetBlue flight that hit bad weather while flying from Boston to Sacramento on Thursday. Twenty-two passengers and two crew members were taken to a...

Fly to Cuba Starting Next Month for $99

JetBlue first domestic airline to offer commercial flights, with others soon to follow

(Newser) - For the first time in more than half a century, a domestic airline will be offering commercial flights to Cuba, and the price looks right. Consumerist reports that starting Aug. 31, JetBlue will be hosting three-times-a-week puddle-jumping jaunts from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to Abel Santamaria Airport in Santa Clara, about...

Fliers React Incredibly to Orlando Victim's Grandma

JetBlue flight attendant recounts the moving scene

(Newser) - The grandmother of Luis Omar Ocasio-Capo—at 20, one of the youngest victims of the Orlando nightclub massacre—flew to Florida on Tuesday to be with her family and attend her grandson's funeral. When JetBlue employees realized she was on their flight, and flying solo, they pulled out all...

JetBlue: Orlando Victims' Families Fly for Free

'Our thoughts are with the victims and their loved ones'

(Newser) - JetBlue says it stands with the victims of the Orlando mass shooting —and it's doing what it can to help their families. The airline is offering free flights to and from Orlando for the immediate family members and domestic partners of victims, and it has waived change fees...

Pilot Won't Let Woman on Flight Over Her Short Shorts

JetBlue says the 'shorts may offend other families'

(Newser) - A burlesque dancer trying to get home to Seattle from Boston earlier this month was told her shorts were simply too short to fly, KIRO reports. According to ABC News , the passenger—who goes by the stage name Maggie McMuffin—was preparing to board a JetBlue flight May 18 when...

Passengers on JetBlue Flight Cheered for Crying Babies

New ad asks passengers to cut flying moms a break

(Newser) - Something that's probably never happened in the history of aviation happened recently on a JetBlue flight from New York to California: Passengers actively rooted for babies to start crying. The one-of-a-kind flight was documented for a JetBlue Mother's Day ad released this week, Adweek reports. After passengers were...

JetBlue Pilot: Gum Caused 0.11 Blood Alcohol Level

Co-pilot saw him sip 'unknown beverage'

(Newser) - A commercial pilot was under the influence of alcohol while flying a JetBlue airliner carrying 151 passengers last year from Orlando, Fla., to New York City, federal prosecutors said Wednesday, per the AP . A criminal complaint says Dennis Murphy Jr. was selected for a random alcohol test after Flight 584...

'Genius Millionaire' Apologizes for Rant on JetBlue Flight

David Brackett was kicked off plane after boastful brouhaha with another passenger

(Newser) - It's not often one has the honor to be seated in coach on the same flight as a 28-year-old millionaire with six houses and a 176 IQ. At least, that's what David Brackett claimed before he and two men were booted off a JetBlue flight out of Long...

JetBlue Passenger Redefines 'Bad Seatmate'

Police say he woke up and began peeing on fellow passengers

(Newser) - An Oregon man faces charges after authorities say he urinated on passengers on a flight from Anchorage to Portland, Oregon. Jeff Rubin, 27, was arrested yesterday after JetBlue Flight 47 arrived at Portland International Airport, reports KOIN-TV . A police report says passengers and airline employees told officers Rubin had been...

Florida Ferries Going to Cuba Again

Also, JetBlue adds a weekly flight from New York City

(Newser) - The US embargo on Cuba is still in place, but two developments today further suggest that its days are numbered:
  • Ferry service: Two companies have gotten approval from the US to begin running ferries from Florida to Cuba for the first time in 50 years, reports the Sun Sentinel . The
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JetBlue Cuts Legroom, Adds Bag Fees
JetBlue Cuts Legroom,
Adds Bag Fees
Nov 19, 2014 3:50 PM CST

JetBlue Cuts Legroom, Adds Bag Fees

Which leaves Southwest as only airline without such fees

(Newser) - The latest flower in the drooping and ponderous bouquet we like to call "why everyone hates airlines" comes via special delivery from JetBlue, which is cutting one thing passengers do like and adding one thing they don't. The airline, which the Wall Street Journal notes is looking to...

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