I don’t understand what happened the A321neo delays delivery? Due to engines issues. If they don’t delivery. They will have find something else.

Ten days ago, N2039J completed an acceptance flight at XFW. As far as I can tell, N2047J does not have engines yet. No word on N2043J or N2044J.

N2027J is still sitting around at JFK. Wonder what's going on with it.

JetBlue is planning to lease four ex-Thomas Cook A321-231s later this year to fill in the gap. More information is on the fleet guide thread.

-J.

Got it. I heard it already. They will reduce the seats. That will have 200 passengers, not 240 or 220.

Not at first... allegedly they will be rushed into service in their current configuration (214-220 seats).

-J.

N2039J is en route to JFK.

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/...840Z/EDHI/KJFK

-J.

N2027J is sitting at JFK missing an engine. I can barely make out the name from the photo. “A Blue Point of View"

N2043J has engines and just had its first flight a couple of days ago.

-J.

Delivery of N2043J and N2047J is imminent. This may be it for a while :o

-J.

And they're on the way! Literally five minutes apart. They're both expected to land at JFK at 1:32pm.

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/...740Z/EDHI/KJFK
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/...810Z/EDHI/KJFK

...and they're both going to VQQ tonight!

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/...010Z/KJFK/KVQQ
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/...010Z/KJFK/KVQQ

-J.

Looks like N2027J finally got a new engine. It's currently scheduled to go out on flight 1101 to FLL.

Looks like they changed their mind... an A320 has the honors today, and tomorrow it's showing a standard A321.

-J.

I got an email from Robin Hayes this morning. The A321neo deliveries are being purposefully delayed and the four leased former Thomas cook A321s have been deferred.

The three newest planes have left VQQ. N2043J and N2047J ferried to MCO last week, and N2039J ferried to Tampa on Thursday. Whether they will be brought into service or be among those parked is anyone's guess.

-J.

I noticed in a video on JetBlue's blog today that these aircraft are now being delivered with the Airspace overhead bins. I believe the aircraft in the video is N2039J.

-J.

Does anyone have any photos of this by any chance?

You can see it in the video:


The overhead bins are different and below them is the extra light bar.

-J.

It's probably common knowledge by now, but all of the NEOs that have entered service and been delivered have been parked for a month now. This entire subfleet is out of service.

D-AZAF (the future N2048J) was ferried and parked at ERF three weeks ago.

-J.

N2016J returned to service on June 5th. It had been parked at JFK since April 26th.

-J.

I've updated the wiki to show that N2039J, N2043J, and N2047J have all entered service. The latter two do not have Fly-Fi yet.

The entire fleet has returned to service. N2048J should be delivered in the near future, as it has just completed its acceptance flight at XFW.

-J.

N2048J was indeed delivered yesterday to JFK. This aircraft was stored at ERF for most of May and June.

-J.

I see that the 4 ex-monarch A321s are still showing as leased under JetBlue. The last one was only shown to have been delivered in June.
https://www.planespotters.net/airfra...airways/348g45

I assume these are all stored somewhere. But with the expanded mint flying out of EWR, I wonder if these will be brought into service as reconfigured mint A321s. Well, earning call season is coming soon. We might get some light on that.

According to the fleet guide wiki:

AFAIK they are still in Tampa (well, 3 of them are... who knows about 902).

-J.

That would seem like a giant waste of money

I agree... but what choice do they have :( Pay to reconfigure them with 200 seats and install IFE and Fly-Fi, fly them around with 220 seats and a 5th FA (while demand is at an all-time low)... or just leave them parked at minimal cost? I think this is an instance of cutting their losses. Nobody else wants these planes right now.

-J.

It was unfortunate timing. The leases were negotiated almost a year ago, and the planes were delivered about a week before the COVID downturn began.

Or they could defer more all-core NEOs, which they actually don't need right now, convert the leased birds to mint config, so they can use them on these EWR transcons. They are now up to 5x on LAX and 2x SFO. Not sure where they are finding the aircraft for these. In a year, negotiate better term for leases, since the market demand is way down.

From what I can see, the immediate A321NEO deliveries are all 200 seaters.

With what seats? Seats are usually purchased well in advance and require a decent lead time to manufacture. By the time they get more mint seats that they didn’t plan to buy, they will be obsolete since there is a Mint refresh coming due to the seats not holding up.

N902JT has joined the other three at TPA.

F-WZMA (msn 10029) had its first flight on July 14th at BFM. This would be the first American-built NEO for JetBlue. An N-number is not assigned yet.

Interesting that although it's built in Alabama, it still has a French registration.

-J.

Very interesting fact

N2084J. Ferried up to JFK for delivery and storage the day after your post.

N2105J (msn 10101) has a new tail scheme and the behind-wing exits deactivated.

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...a7357ea39a.jpg

-J.

Interesting. I wonder why they changed it part of the way through the order? The tail design looks like ocean waves. Could this be the first LR?

This will very likely be the first Mint plane. Not sure if it is actually an LR or not.

-J.

Twitter has already named it Blue Wavy Gravy.

I notice the missing windows at where Door 2 used to be... so I think this might be the new Mint aircraft.
I can't wait to see what new Mint product is installed here!

I imagine a lav or "pantry" will be located there. Though I imagined the forward cabin would be bigger. But who knows what layout it will have. Hopefully we finally learn what "Mint Suite" and "Mint Studio" mean!

-J.

The new tail design has been named "Ribbon."

-J.

It was confirmed today that this will be the first NEO to be equipped with Mint, however it is not an LR model. So I expect the area behind the "e" in "JetBlue" without the windows to be a lavatory, with a pantry opposite. Of course this is speculation -- the actual config is still TBA.

-J.

This will be interesting to see. Some people, like the aib link, thought this could still be LR since LRs are also NEO. I think that's unlikely given that the first LR isn't supposed to come until Q1. In the Q2 earnings call, they still said all the deliveries until end of the year are going to be all core, so this is a change. I think they are seeing mint market recover ahead of all-core markets and switching the final NEO delivery this year from all-core to mint. If the 5 non-LR deliveries next year are also mint, that hopefully will provide enough aircraft to support the additional mint flights out of EWR and LAX.

As long as it has Mint, I'll be a happy camper