B6 Now Charging for Preferred Seats
Mar 5, 2024, 6:07 am
#16
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If you haven't flown JetBlue much, just be prepared for operational issues. They are much less reliable than United, and when things go wrong, because they have no hubs and fewer flights, you can be delayed for days. If you really need to get somewhere on a certain date, I'd go with one of the legacy airlines.
Mar 6, 2024, 11:06 pm
#17
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If you haven't flown JetBlue much, just be prepared for operational issues. They are much less reliable than United, and when things go wrong, because they have no hubs and fewer flights, you can be delayed for days. If you really need to get somewhere on a certain date, I'd go with one of the legacy airlines.
Mar 7, 2024, 5:27 am
#18
Join Date: Feb 2019
Location: Connecticut
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At this point in time I don't want to set foot on ANY Boeing plane Max or not. These profit versus quality issues have been brewing for a long long time. Not sure if Boeing can actually turn the company around back to a solid engineering first company.
Mar 7, 2024, 5:29 am
#19
Join Date: Feb 2019
Location: Connecticut
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I don't know, the counter folks at Montego Bay for JetBlue were about as bad at customer service as any company, airline or not, that I have ever encountered.
Mar 7, 2024, 8:48 am
#20
Join Date: Aug 2010
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$15 for the rows in front of the Exit Row (except the last one) for SAN/JFK last week. How silly. So we took the row behind the Exit Row and didn't pay an extra $60 for our r/t.
Mar 21, 2024, 10:18 am
#21
Join Date: Feb 2019
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I booked a flight about eight months ago. Yesterday got an email that there was a schedule change and I needed to confirm or change. I confirmed and it told me to check my seats as they may have changed. I checked and they didn't change BUT I noticed that the even more space seats which were $40 ten months ago are now $71 and the preferred seats which were free ten months ago are now $20. So on a round trip for two even more space is going to cost and extra $284. Bet there are going to be a lot of empty even more space seats going forward.
Mar 21, 2024, 11:55 am
#22
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I booked a flight about eight months ago. Yesterday got an email that there was a schedule change and I needed to confirm or change. I confirmed and it told me to check my seats as they may have changed. I checked and they didn't change BUT I noticed that the even more space seats which were $40 ten months ago are now $71 and the preferred seats which were free ten months ago are now $20. So on a round trip for two even more space is going to cost and extra $284. Bet there are going to be a lot of empty even more space seats going forward.
-J.
Mar 21, 2024, 2:55 pm
#23
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Mar 21, 2024, 3:13 pm
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-J.
Mar 21, 2024, 4:57 pm
#25
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They won't. People will book Blue Basic and those seats will fill up. People looking for cheap fares don't always care about seat selection and that usually isn't enough to sway them from one airline to another. If it were the case, they wouldn't have kept it going for several years now, and it's been quite successful for them. At the end of the day, whatever it takes to get seats filled above break-even will win out.
-J.
-J.
Mar 21, 2024, 6:11 pm
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-J.
Mar 22, 2024, 5:17 am
#27
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But in my case, the substantially higher cost of EMS seats (that I won't pay as the value is not there) and the new charge for the other seats upfront have turned jetBlue from my preferred airline (as I fly out of JFK) to just another airline.
To me, it is just the continuation of the erosion of what made us fall in love with jetBlue. Remember when they were a "low-cost airline". Remember when they offered great service, etc, etc.
To me, it is just the continuation of the erosion of what made us fall in love with jetBlue. Remember when they were a "low-cost airline". Remember when they offered great service, etc, etc.
Mar 28, 2024, 12:23 pm
#28
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But in my case, the substantially higher cost of EMS seats (that I won't pay as the value is not there) and the new charge for the other seats upfront have turned jetBlue from my preferred airline (as I fly out of JFK) to just another airline.
To me, it is just the continuation of the erosion of what made us fall in love with jetBlue. Remember when they were a "low-cost airline". Remember when they offered great service, etc, etc.
To me, it is just the continuation of the erosion of what made us fall in love with jetBlue. Remember when they were a "low-cost airline". Remember when they offered great service, etc, etc.
Mar 29, 2024, 8:41 am
#29
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We are flying SAN/BOS/SAN in November. East bound (red eye) EMS is $135. Westbound (day time) is $189. Happy to get the extra legroom for sleeping going east, but that westbound price is CRAZY
Mar 29, 2024, 10:03 am
#30
Join Date: May 2017
Location: NYC
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Seeing the $135 for a SAN-JFK flight next month, which is insane in itself. LAX-JFK used to be $50