A JetBlue airplane takes off from Los Angeles Worldwide Airport (LAX) on Jan. 03, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.
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JetBlue Airways is speaking with “a number of airways” a couple of potential new partnership after federal judges struck down two earlier offers, the service’s president mentioned Wednesday.
“If we discover a deal that is accretive, we’ll completely do it,” JetBlue’s president, Marty St. George, mentioned at a Barclays trade convention.
A federal choose in 2023 dominated the New York airline’s partnership within the Northeast with American Airways was anticompetitive, whereas a distinct choose final yr blocked JetBlue’s plan to amass funds service Spirit Airways, which filed for Chapter 11 chapter safety final yr.
JetBlue representatives did not instantly reply to a request for remark.
JetBlue, which marked its twenty fifth yr of flying this month, has been trying to find partnerships and offers to develop, arguing it should accomplish that to higher compete with bigger carriers like Delta, American and United.
St. George mentioned a possible tie-up would profit the corporate’s loyalty program, noting that prospects say the frequent flyer factors on JetBlue aren’t as robust as these of the massive three U.S. carriers.
“Given that we actually do not have full world earn and burn, I assume to have the ability to add that to our community could be very, very useful,” he mentioned.
