Blue Sky, the new joint programme between JetBlue and United Airlines should bring numerous benefits to the customers of both companies. They hope that the programme will start this autumn. They detail future benefits which, however, will need to be approved by the relevant authorities.
United MileagePlus customers will be able to earn and use miles on most JetBlue flights. The airline offers 90 daily flights between the North East and the Caribbean this summer - with direct non-stop scheduled flights to popular islands such as Aruba, Barbados and Jamaica. JetBlue TrueBlue members, meanwhile, can collect and spend their points on flights across the entire United Airlinesincluding on the carrier's international routes. In particular to Europe and Asia Pacific.
Through Blue Sky, each airline will offer flights on each other's website and app to facilitate booking on their respective networks. Blue Sky includes interline agreement but not code sharing. This means that each airline will continue to publish and market flights independently under its own brand and flight numbers.
The benefits of each airline's frequent flyer programme will be mutually recognised. These include priority boarding, free access to seats with extra legroom, and same-day standby/changeover.
United returns to JFK
United will transfer the capacity of its travel services website and mobile application to JetBlue's Paisly platform, which also offers complementary travel services.
Especially in the context of this agreement, JetBlue to bring United back to New York-JFK. The company will be able to 2027 operate up to seven daily flights. United to use JetBlue Terminal 6. For its part, United will cede eight slots to JetBlue at Newark.
" This collaboration with United is a bold step forward for the industry - an initiative that brings together two customer-focused airlines to offer travellers more choice and value across our networkssaid Joanna Geraghty, CEO of JetBlue. United's global positioning perfectly complements JetBlue's East Coast leisure network and significantly expands the options and benefits for TrueBlue members. ".
JetBlue also hopes to get out of the red through this cooperation. The carrier has lost 209 million in the first quarter of 2025. That's almost as much as for the whole of 2024, when the loss reached 245 million dollars..
