United Airways and JetBlue Announce New Loyalty Program Blue Sky

A brand new airline partnership is withdrawing.

United Airways and JetBlue not too long ago linked loyalty packages and now present the chance to e-book award flights on every airline, no matter the place the miles have been initially earned. The airways can even trade gate area at hub airports, with United making a return to New York’s John F. Kennedy Worldwide Airport (JFK) for the primary time since 2015, because of the JetBlue gates. Equally, JetBlue is taking a few of United’s gates at Newark Liberty Worldwide Airport (EWR).

The “distinctive client collaboration” has been dubbed Blue Sky. Nonetheless, the airways have clarified that the transfer just isn’t a merger, nor a codeshare. It is merely a means to supply reciprocal loyalty and award advantages, and share aggressive gate area at common airports.

Members of United’s MileagePlus program will obtain precedence bag dealing with, check-in, and safety. Vacationers can even obtain a minimal of 1 free checked bag and different perks resembling further legroom seats and same-day adjustments. JetBlue TrueBlue members will obtain related advantages when flying on United.

The partnership additionally gives the chance for United frequent flyers to make use of miles on locations that the airline doesn’t at the moment fly to, resembling Martha’s Winery, Massachusetts; Cartagena, Colombia; and Ponce, Puerto Rico.

“We’re all the time in search of methods to present United Airways MileagePlus members much more worth and advantages, and Blue Sky will do exactly that with new, distinctive methods to make use of your hard-earned miles and discover choices that suit your schedule,” United Airways CEO Scott Kirby stated in an announcement shared with Journey + Leisure.

Since United Airways is part of Star Alliance, the service’s reintroduction to John F. Kennedy Worldwide Airport will add important connection alternatives for each home and worldwide vacationers. Beginning in 2027, JetBlue will present United with sufficient gates for seven every day round-trip flights, the discharge shared.

For instance, United passengers would be capable of hook up with fellow alliance members on the airport, together with Air Canada, Air China, Air New Zealand, All Nippon Airways, Avianca, Singapore Airways, Lufthansa, Swiss Worldwide Air Traces, and Turkish Airways.

The JetBlue partnership is simply the newest innovation from United. In January, the Chicago-based service introduced it could introduce free Starlink Wi-Fi onboard its plane, which the airline has already begun deploying. United additionally not too long ago unveiled a brand new service class, Polaris Studio, which is bigger than its present enterprise providing.