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JetBlue and United announce new partnership

Marketplace All-in-One

Marketplace

News, Business

4.51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

It's not a merger, but the two airlines are teaming up. JetBlue and United announced the partnership, called BlueSky, on Thursday to sell each others’ flights and link up their loyalty programs and more. Plus: Do soccer fans want pre-match entertainment and halftime shows?

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Two airlines find more in common than the blue paint on their planes.

1:02.6

I'm David Brancaccio in New York. It's not a merger, but JetBlue and United Airlines are teaming up.

1:08.3

The airlines announced a partnership yesterday to sell each other's

1:11.3

flights and link up their loyalty programs and more. Daniel Ackerman reports on what the airlines

1:16.6

and flyers might get out of this. For years, JetBlue has been searching for The One, an airline

1:22.5

to partner with, says Richard Abilafia of Aerodynamic advisory. They've been trying to grow.

1:27.8

They need to be bigger than they are.

1:29.6

JetBlue tried to merge with Spirit Airlines.

1:32.2

Just to get the capacity and the routes.

1:34.5

But a court blocked that merger over antitrust concerns.

1:38.1

JetBlue also tried to partner with American Airlines, says Magna Maharishi of the

1:42.7

Travel Intelligence firm Skift. Both of those airlines were coordinating their schedules or coordinatingna Maharishi of the travel intelligence firm Skift.

1:44.8

Both of those airlines were coordinating their schedules or coordinating their pricing out of the New York and Boston areas.

1:50.0

A court put a stop to that too.

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