JetBlue and United Airlines will offer flights on other’s website and app to make booking across the two airlines’ complementary networks simple and easy
JetBlue and United Airlines have come together to launch Blue Sky, a new collaboration that gives customers of both airlines more options to find flights that fit their plans and opportunities to earn and use MileagePlus miles and TrueBlue frequent flyer points across both airlines.
Joanna Geraghty
“This collaboration with United is a bold step forward for the industry, one that brings together two customer-focussed airlines to deliver more choices for travellers and value across our networks. United’s global reach perfectly complements JetBlue’s East Coast leisure network, and significantly expands the options and benefits for TrueBlue members, no matter where in the world they are travelling. This is a clear win for our customers and crewmembers, and supports our JetForward strategy,” says Joanna Geraghty, CEO, JetBlue.
The statement adds that through Blue Sky, United’s MileagePlus customers can earn and use miles on most JetBlue flights. JetBlue offers 90 daily flights between the Northeast and the Caribbean this summer, with regular nonstop direct flights to popular islands like Aruba, Barbados and Jamaica. JetBlue’s TrueBlue members can earn and use points for flights on United’s extensive domestic and international network, the largest across the Atlantic and Pacific that includes popular destinations like Cape Town and Tahiti.
Each airline will also offer flights on other’s website and app to make booking across the two airlines’ complementary networks simple and easy. As part of the agreement, JetBlue will also provide United access to slots at JFK International Airport for up to seven daily round-trip flights out of JFK Terminal 6 to begin as early as 2027. And, as part of a net-neutral exchange, JetBlue and United will exchange eight flight timings at Newark, adds the statement.
Scott Kirby
“Blue Sky reflects our airlines’ shared focus on innovation and the customer experience. The JetBlue brand is tied to a great product and under Joanna’s leadership the airline continues to deliver for customers. We are always looking for ways to give our MileagePlus members even more value and benefits and this collaboration gives them new, unique ways to use their hard-earned miles and find options that fit their schedule. Plus, our employees are really excited about United’s return to JFK for the longer-term and we are all looking forward to starting up flights very soon,” says Scott Kirby, CEO, United.
According to the statement, as part of Blue Sky, members of each airline’s loyalty programme will find similar benefits over time, as well as reciprocal revenue-based miles and points accrual and reciprocal miles and points redemption, when they use and earn miles or points on the partner airline.
Additionally, in a move that will make planning and booking travel and holiday packages easier for United’s customers and MileagePlus members, United and JetBlue also announced today that United will move its website and mobile app’s ability to sell hotels, rental cars, cruises and travel insurance to JetBlue’s Paisly platform.
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