JetBlue Still in Talks With ‘Multiple Airlines’ for Partnership, Sees Loyalty as Biggest Benefit
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JetBlue president Marty St. George said the carrier had accounted for an airline partnership in its new strategy to boost profitability.
JetBlue president Marty St. George said Wednesday the carrier is still in talks with "multiple airlines” about a partnership.
“We have said we're talking to multiple airlines,” he said at the Barclays Industrials Conference. “We're still talking.”
JetBlue executives have expressed interest multiple times in reviving an airline partnership similar to that of the Northeast Alliance. A federal judge struck down the deal — JetBlue’s partnership with American Airlines — in May 2023 on the grounds that it was anticompetitive.
The first Trump administration approved the Northeast Alliance, and the Biden administration sued to block it. The Biden administration also sued to blo
