If the Virgin America Sale wasn't enough for you yesterday (still going on), today JetBlue announced the Turn-Over-A-New-Leaf Sale with tickets starting as low as $40 (after tax) each way! This is a 1 day sale for travel between September 4 and November 14, 2012. Tickets are ONLY available on Jetblue.com so do not bother looking on Orbitz, Expedia, or the other travel websites, because you won't find these incredibly low fares ANYWHERE but on Jetblue.com

 

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Today was a busy day for Low Cost Carrier's Frequent Flyer programs in the United States with both Virgin America and JetBlue announcing new loyalty perks for frequent flyers. Vx announced Elevate Silver and Gold and B6 announced the launch of TrueBlue Mosaic.

TrueBlue Mosaic is a watered down elite program to say thank you to JetBlue’s most frequent flyers.

With TrueBlue Mosaic comes more benefits, more rewards and more reasons to like JetBlue. TrueBlue Mosaic ...

So we've all been wondering who would be awarded the new flights from DCA to the beyond perimeters cities, and today, the long awaited slots have been awarded (back story here). Delta will be flying Salt Lake City to DC, United: San Fran to DC, US Airways: San Diego to DC, and American: LAX to DC. However those were a gimmie. The new airlines that were awarded slots by the DOT are:

Alaska: Portland, Or. to DCA
Virgin: San Fran to DCA
Jetblue: ...

JetBlue is offering $20 - $500 off select flights when booked online using a targeted promo code that was sent to TrueBlue flyers. To get your promo code you must be registered for TrueBlue email offers and you won’t know what your offer is or how much your discount is until you plug it in and select what flights you want.

I tried using my promo code for a number of different flights in May and June and every time it gave me a discount of ...

JetBlue (B6) is expanding their partnerships again with foreign airlines and are hopping to be able to profit from acting as a feeder carrier for the new Japan Airline (JAL) flight to and from Boston’s Logan international airport and from JAL’s existing flight from JFK to Tokyo’s Narita airport.

On April 14, JetBlue and JAL announced a new interline agreement allowing B6 and JAL customers the ability book tickets for combined ...

Editors note: this is the first of two installments covering the dynamics of ultra-long haul flights that have become more and more commonplace in the global aviation world. 

Ultra-long haul flights: they may sound brutal in practice, but it's a pretty cool concept in theory.

Although the figure tends to change frequently, given the current high-risk environment with escalating oil prices, there are roughly 250 flights worldwide that currently exceed 4,999 nautical miles ...