List of changes to JetBlue in the past 30 days
 

8/15/18 JBLU announces appointment of B. Ben Baldanza (former CEO of Spirit) to its Board of Directors
8/27/18 Chase adds Jetblue to transfer program at 1:1 ratio (This devalues JetBlue's points value on the Citi/Amex side)
8/27/18 Blue and Blue Plus change fees increase +$50
8/28/18 JBLU raises its prices for checked baggage by +$5 (1st, 2nd checked) and +$50 (3rd checked)
8/31/18 JFK closes the Airpsace Lounge used by Terminal 5 JetBlue customers
9/13/18 Citi immediately rolls out the 1:1 ratio on its Premier and Prestige products to match Chase
(Amex currently has a 1:1 MR to TrueBlue promotion, but expires 10/1/18. They may make it permanent to match Citi and Chase; while this temporarily benefits customers, it may foreshadow an increase in point redemptions by JetBlue to compensate.)
9/16/18 Visa Infinite $100 Discount Round Trip Domestic Airfare no longer an option

Objectively speaking, this isn't the same airline it was thirty days ago.

Don't forget the "temporary" axing of badges.

Appreciate someone putting it all in order like this, certainly a confluence of negative changes, fortunately Mosaics are unaffected by most of this, except for the Visa Inifite changes. How long until they make big changes to True Blue/Mosaic...

I don't know that all of these are bad. The points transfers are a good thing? TrueBlue points are only worth about 1.3-1.7 cents in most cases, and AmEx/Chase points are worth a bit more- they were an extremely poor value, and now they're at least sane enough for transfers to be useful. Considering jetBlue point values are more or less fixed I don't really see them upping costs.

The Airspace lounge wasn't owned by them, was awful, and -still- reflected poorly on jetBlue. I think jetBlue should look into some option for an enhanced ground experience but this lounge needed to go. There's enough premium traffic out of T5 with Hawaiian and TAP that hopefully something opens up (hey, maybe expand that Aer Lingus lounge....). I'm amazed it took this long to kick them out.

That said, the checked bag and change fees are lousy. I really think they could set themselves apart by offering reasonable change fees (something Frontier just announced they're doing), but there just doesn't seem to be much innovation here and they're ceding a lot of the flyer-friendly policies to Southwest.

I'll add the lack of a Mosaic Challenge this year to the list. That's the one that has me most sad. Going to have to rely on Mrs. AutoSlash's Mosaic status from the B6 credit card. Fine when I'm traveling with her, but I'm busted down to an average joe when traveling alone for the first time in a few years. :(

lack of mosiac challenge for me is the biggest one. I was hoping to use that for sure.

Those point transfers don't mean anything to me.

As for checked bag, all the legacies have also increased now. Just where us airline industry is moving.

well, there is this piece of news, which is a positive for me at least
https://www.travelpulse.com/news/air...an-routes.html

Literally Just Tried to use this benefit for the first time. ohwell

Jet Blue was the first to change and then everyone jumped on the bandwagon. I wonder if they would all still be $25 if B6 didn't go first?

It's not THAT bad. Just make sure to grab EMS seats ;)

I cannot imagine anyone who has actually been in that Airspace Lounge being upset that it's closed. It was the size of a relatively large room, it was poorly located within the terminal, most of the seats were up a flight of stairs, the service was horrific, there was virtually nothing to actually consume for the $10 credit, the wi-fi was either weaker than the T5 wifi or was just the T5 wifi (I forget at this point)...essentially, it had a nice shower and that was it. It's one of the worst contract lounges I've ever been in.

I'll say this again, every time this comes up. They had a Espress machine that was in German... No one knew how to use it if you asked for a drink....

I remember getting an espresso there -once- and every subsequent visit I was told 'I can't do that' until it was eventually removed.

I got mine awhile ago and it was there. It is also the first benefit listed on the website.

https://trueblue.jetblue.com/web/trueblue/mosaic