{"id":15178,"date":"2025-02-20T20:00:24","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T20:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/20\/jetblue-talking-to-multiple-airlines-about-a-new-partnership\/"},"modified":"2025-02-20T20:00:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T20:00:24","slug":"jetblue-talking-to-multiple-airlines-about-a-new-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/20\/jetblue-talking-to-multiple-airlines-about-a-new-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"JetBlue talking to \u2018multiple airlines\u2019 about a new partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-graf\">JetBlue Airways\u00a0is talking with \u201cmultiple airlines\u201d about a potential new partnership after federal judges struck down two previous deals, the carrier\u2019s president said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-graf\">\u201cIf\u00a0we\u00a0find\u00a0a\u00a0deal\u00a0that\u2019s\u00a0accretive,\u00a0we\u2019ll\u00a0absolutely\u00a0do\u00a0it,\u201d JetBlue\u2019s president, Marty St. George, said at a Barclays industry conference.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p class=\"body-graf\">A federal judge in 2023\u00a0ruled\u00a0the New York airline\u2019s partnership in the Northeast with\u00a0American Airlines\u00a0was anticompetitive, while a different judge last year blocked JetBlue\u2019s\u00a0plan to acquire\u00a0budget carrier Spirit Airlines, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-graf\">JetBlue representatives didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-graf\">JetBlue, which marked its 25th year of flying this month, has been searching for partnerships and deals to grow, contending it must do so to better compete with larger carriers like\u00a0Delta, American and\u00a0United.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-graf\">St. George said a potential tie-up would benefit the company\u2019s loyalty program, noting that customers say the frequent flyer points on JetBlue are not as strong as those of the big three U.S. carriers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-graf\">\u201cGiven\u00a0that\u00a0we\u00a0really\u00a0don\u2019t\u00a0have\u00a0full\u00a0global\u00a0earn\u00a0and\u00a0burn,\u00a0I\u00a0think\u00a0to be able to add that to our network would be very, very helpful,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on NBC NEWS<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JetBlue Airways\u00a0is talking with \u201cmultiple airlines\u201d about a potential new partnership after federal judges struck down two previous deals, the carrier\u2019s president said Wednesday. \u201cIf\u00a0we\u00a0find\u00a0a\u00a0deal\u00a0that\u2019s\u00a0accretive,\u00a0we\u2019ll\u00a0absolutely\u00a0do\u00a0it,\u201d JetBlue\u2019s president, Marty St. George, said at a Barclays industry conference. A federal judge in 2023\u00a0ruled\u00a0the New York airline\u2019s partnership in the Northeast with\u00a0American Airlines\u00a0was anticompetitive, while a different judge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}