JetBlue Airways
Headquarters:
118-29 Queens Blvd.
Forest Hills, NY 11375
Employees: 10,704
President: Dave Barger
Stock Symbol: JBLU
Website: http://www.jetblue.com
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JetBlue is one of the nation's leading
low-cost airlines and is based out of New York's JFK Airport.
JetBlue flies up to 650 flights a day to 61 cities including all three NYC airports. In five years, the company has become the biggest airline serving JFK and specializes in non-stop trips from New York to the West Coast and Florida. The company began flights to San Jose, Costa Rica; Jamaica; Saint Lucia and Barbados in 2009.
New service to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Washington, DC and to Bradley International Airport in Hartford, CT begins in November.
JetBlue flies all-new Airbus A-320 and Embraer 190 aircraft with leather seats and is the only airline to have free DIRECTV satellite programming on the back of every seat with 36
channels. DIRECTV is not offered on flights outside of the
continental U.S. XM Satellite Radio is also offered on every
seat.
JetBlue's A320 aircraft have a single-class
configuration of 156 seats, while the EMBRAER 190 has a single-class
configuration of 100 seats.
In 2009, the company reported revenues of $3.28 billion, a 3% drop, and net income of $58 million. JetBlue had a load factor of 79.7% in 2009. The average fare paid per passenger was $130.41 in 2009.
JetBlue was named Highest in Customer Satisfaction for low-cost carriers by J.D. Power and Associates.
Employment has increased at JetBlue by 8.2% over the past year.
History
JetBlue Airways launched on February 11,
2000 with the inauguration of service between New York City's
John F. Kennedy Airport and Fort Lauderdale, FL.
JetBlue's origins date back to 1993, when
CEO David Neeleman sold his first airline, Salt-Lake City based
Morris Air, to Southwest Airlines. It was as a founder and President
of Morris Air that Neeleman proved that innovative, high-quality
airline service coupled with low fares will attract a strong
and loyal market.
Following the sale of Morris Air, Neeleman
went on to help launch WestJet, a successful Canadian low-fare
carrier, and to develop the e-ticketing system he had implemented
at Morris Air into Open Skies, the world's simplest airline reservation
system. Neeleman sold Open Skies to Hewlett Packard in 1999.
With three successful aviation businesses
under his belt, Neeleman decided the time was right to bring
his airline formula to the world's largest aviation market, New
York City. In July 1999, having secured a hand-picked management
team and $130 million in capital funding from investors such
as Weston Presidio Capital, George Soros and Chase Capital, Neeleman
surprised the aviation industry with the announcement of his
plan to launch a new airline that would bring "humanity
back to air travel."
Lufthansa purchased a 19 percent ownership
interest in JetBlue in 2007.
Benefits
Maximize your Health
- Medical Insurance
- Full-Time Prescription Coverage
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Group Legal
- Flexible Spending
- Life Insurance
- Short Term Disability Insurance
- Long Term Disability Insurance
- Pilot Loss of License
- Health Risk Assessment
- Disease Management Programs
Maximize your Wealth
- 401(k) Plan
- Roth 401(k)
- Self-Directed Accounts (SDA)
- Guaranteed Profit Sharing (not available to LiveTV®)
- Stock Purchase Plan (not available to LiveTV®)
- Airline Credit Union
- Voluntary Discount Programs
- Free and reduced rate standby travel on JetBlue flights
- Discounted standby travel on other airlines
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