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United Airways and JetBlue Airways introduced on Thursday a brand new partnership that provides prospects the flexibility to earn and use loyalty program factors and miles throughout the 2 airways.
The carriers touted the partnership, dubbed Blue Sky, as a transfer that “offers prospects of each carriers much more choices to discover flights that match their plans in addition to new alternatives to earn and use Mileage Plus miles and TrueBlue factors throughout each airways.”
A United Airways jet lands at San Francisco Worldwide Airport in San Francisco, California. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Company by way of Getty Photos / Getty Photos)
United and JetBlue will make their flights accessible on one another’s respective reserving platforms as a part of the Blue Sky collaboration, the airways mentioned.
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When touring, prospects who belong to United’s loyalty program, MileagePlus, will have the ability to accrue and use miles on “most” JetBlue flights, with JetBlue’s loyalty program members getting the flexibility to do the identical with their TrueBlue factors for flights on United’s “in depth home and worldwide community,” in line with the carriers.
United and JetBlue mentioned prospects can even have the ability to money in on the advantages of the loyalty program they belong to when taking flights on the opposite airline.
A JetBlue Airbus A320 takes off from Los Angeles worldwide Airport in Los Angeles, California. ((Picture by AaronP/Bauer-Griffin/GC Photos) / Getty Photos)
The airways mentioned their loyalty program members “will discover comparable advantages over time – in addition to reciprocal revenue-based miles and factors accrual and reciprocal miles and factors redemption – once they use and earn miles or factors on the associate airline.”
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United will additionally “transfer its web site and cell app’s means to promote lodges, rental vehicles, cruises and journey insurance coverage, one each a stand-alone and bundle foundation, to new expertise and companies supplied by JetBlue’s Paisly platform,” the carriers mentioned.
By means of Blue Sky, United can even get to make use of JetBlue’s slots at John F. Kennedy Worldwide Airport for “as much as” seven each day round-trip flights beginning “as early as 2027,” United and JetBlue mentioned.
That can mark a return to JFK for United. The provider final provided some flights from the airport between 2021 and 2022.
Exterior view of JFK Airport in New York on November 19, 2023. (Picture by KENA BETANCUR / AFP) (Picture by KENA BETANCUR/AFP by way of Getty Photos) (KENA BETANCUR/AFP by way of Getty Photos / Getty Photos)
JetBlue and United can even “trade” eight flight timings at Newark Liberty Worldwide Airport, in line with the carriers.
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United and JetBlue mentioned prospects can count on some components of Blue Sky to go stay “beginning as early as this fall, topic to regulatory overview.”
They are going to nonetheless “handle and value” their networks independently, they mentioned.
JetBlue noticed practically 40.5 million income passengers in 2024, in line with its annual report. In the meantime, United reported about 173.6 million.
| Ticker | Safety | Final | Change | Change % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UAL | UNITED AIRLINES HOLDINGS INC. | 78.74 | +1.24 | +1.60% |
| JBLU | JETBLUE AIRWAYS CORP. | 5.22 | -0.20 | -3.69% |
