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United Airways and JetBlue Airways introduced on Thursday a brand new partnership that provides prospects the power 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 “gives customers of both carriers even more options to find flights that fit their plans as well as new opportunities to earn and use Mileage Plus miles and TrueBlue points across both airlines.”
A United Airways jet lands at San Francisco Worldwide Airport in San Francisco, California. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Company through Getty Pictures / Getty Pictures)
United and JetBlue will make their flights obtainable on one another’s respective reserving platforms as a part of the Blue Sky collaboration, the airways stated.
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When touring, prospects who belong to United’s loyalty program, MileagePlus, will be capable to accrue and use miles on “most” JetBlue flights, with JetBlue’s loyalty program members getting the power to do the identical with their TrueBlue factors for flights on United’s “extensive domestic and international network,” based on the carriers.
United and JetBlue stated prospects can even be capable 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. ((Photograph by AaronP/Bauer-Griffin/GC Pictures) / Getty Pictures)
The airways stated their loyalty program members “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.”
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United can even “move its website and mobile app’s ability to sell hotels, rental cars, cruises and travel insurance, one both a stand-alone and package basis, to new technology and services provided by JetBlue’s Paisly platform,” the carriers stated.
By Blue Sky, United can even get to make use of JetBlue’s slots at John F. Kennedy Worldwide Airport for “up to” seven day by day round-trip flights beginning “as early as 2027,” United and JetBlue stated.
That may mark a return to JFK for United. The provider final supplied some flights from the airport between 2021 and 2022.
Exterior view of JFK Airport in New York on November 19, 2023. (Photograph by KENA BETANCUR / AFP) (Photograph by KENA BETANCUR/AFP through Getty Pictures) (KENA BETANCUR/AFP through Getty Pictures / Getty Pictures)
JetBlue and United can even “exchange” eight flight timings at Newark Liberty Worldwide Airport, based on the carriers.
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United and JetBlue stated prospects can anticipate some elements of Blue Sky to go stay “starting as early as this fall, subject to regulatory review.”
They’ll nonetheless “manage and price” their networks independently, they stated.
JetBlue noticed almost 40.5 million income passengers in 2024, based on its annual report. In the meantime, United reported about 173.6 million.
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