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Founded | August 1998 | ||||||
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Commenced operations | February 11, 2000 | ||||||
AOC # | YENA176J | ||||||
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Frequent-flyer program | TrueBlue | ||||||
Fleet size | 228 | ||||||
Destinations | 100 | ||||||
Company slogan |
You Above All Inspiring Humanity |
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NASDAQ: JBLU DJTA Component S&P 400 Component |
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Headquarters | Brewster Building, Long Island City, New York, United States | ||||||
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Revenue | US$ 5.893 billion (2015) | ||||||
Operating income | US$ 1.216 billion (2015) | ||||||
Net income | US$ 677 million (2015) | ||||||
Total assets | US$ 8.660 billion (2015) | ||||||
Total equity | US$ 3.210 billion (2015) | ||||||
Employees | 20,000 | ||||||
Website | jetblue.com |
JetBlue Airways Corporation (NASDAQ: JBLU), stylized as jetBlue, is an American low-cost airline and the 6th-largest airline in the United States. The company is headquartered in the Long Island City neighborhood of the New York City borough of Queens, with its main base at John F. Kennedy International Airport. It also maintains a corporate office in Cottonwood Heights, Utah.
The airline mainly serves destinations in the United States, along with flights to the The Bahamas, Bermuda, Barbados, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Grenada, Jamaica, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, and many more. As of March 2016, JetBlue serves 97 destinations in the U.S., Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, and South America.
As of 2016, the airline is one of two in the United States with a four-star rating from Skytrax, along with competing airline Virgin America.
JetBlue was incorporated in Delaware in August 1998.David Neeleman founded the company in February 1999, under the name "NewAir." JetBlue started by following Southwest's approach of offering low-cost travel, but sought to distinguish itself by its amenities, such as in-flight entertainment, TV at every seat, and Sirius XM satellite radio. In Neeleman's words, JetBlue looks "to bring humanity back to air travel."