JetBlue and United Airlines Announce Partnership: What This Means for Travelers and Airfare

JetBlue and United Airlines Announce Partnership: What This Means for Travelers and Airfare

With this alliance, you'll be able to use your points across both airlines and book flights on either's website or app.

United and JetBlue: How the Blue Sky partnership will help travelers, and where there's room to grow - The Points Guy

United Airlines and JetBlue are teaming up in a new partnership called Blue Sky, which includes new loyalty benefits for MileagePlus and TrueBlue.

The Truth About JetBlue And United’s Blue Sky Deal: Passengers Caught In The Turbulence

We’re treating the “Blue Sky” pact as a messy rebound relationship—complete with couples therapy, passive-aggressive prenups, and a mutant loyalty offspring (Frankenmiles). I’m tracking the romance arc from flirty DMs to inevitable breakup weather, all while passengers serve as unwilling in-flight marriage counselors. In a move that surprises no passenger who has ever witnessed a mid-air skirmish over armrest allocation, JetBlue Airways and Unit…

Exclusive: JetBlue Unit Rebrands to Paisly Ahead of United.com Partnership Changes

Skift Take: The United-JetBlue alliance is just that, and not an acquisition. Still, as with such transitions, it brings substantial changes to United.com's non-air partnership roster. Read the Complete Story On Skift

Low-cost airline model is 'crappy and dead', says United Airline’s CEO

In a blunt statement at the Wall Street Journal’s Future of Everything conference, United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby declared that low-cost airline model is ‘dead’, describing it as a ‘crappy’ business strategy designed to ‘screw the customer’. The incendiary remarks came shortly after United announced a new partnership with JetBlue Airways; a company largely considered a low-cost carrier itself.  Kirby was quick to clarify, saying that “JetBlue w…