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A JetBlue flight from West Palm Beach to Westchester returned to the gate Sunday night after a passenger rushed to the front of the aircraft just before takeoff, prompting a security response. Passengers say the man tried to get through the front door area and bit a flight attendant during the restraint.
JetBlue’s CEO says New York LaGuardia is now simply too expensive to operate from after the airport’s stunning rebuild—an admission that should worry anyone who cares about cheap fares and real competition. The problem isn’t that airports are getting nicer; it’s that America builds infrastructure slowly and at enormous cost, then forces airlines to absorb it through higher per-passenger fees that low fare carriers can’t make work.
A JetBlue flight in Fort Lauderdale was evacuated and searched after a passenger made a bomb threat—and investigators say it started with something much smaller: he couldn’t find overhead bin space for his carry-on. No device was found, the man was arrested, and the flight eventually departed after a 3-hour delay.
A JetBlue passenger at Las Vegas Airport abandoned her dog by tying him to a baggage sizer after being told she lacked service-animal paperwork, then calmly proceeded to her gate, assuring police the dog “had a tracker” and would “find his way home.”
JetBlue’s long-promised domestic first class (the so-called “Mini Mint”) finally has a credible timeline: a prototype install is targeted for June 2026, with fleet installs beginning that August. The catch is how they’re making room—by squeezing coach and giving up the roomy economy pitch that used to be part of JetBlue’s core identity.
On December 8, a passenger parked their car at Buffalo airport short-term parking. she was only expecting it to be there overnight, for her quick trip to New York and back. The next day she boarded her JetBlue flight home from New York JFK, stowed his backpack in the overhead bin, kept Her purse as her underseat personal item, and then fell asleep before takeoff. A flight attendant removed the backpack from the overhead bin while trying to manage bin space, asks the cabin whom it belonged to, and — getting no response — assumeed it was left-behind item from the previous flight on that aircraft. So the flight attendant had the backpack taken off the aircraft. It seems odd to me that a flight attendant would think a backpack in the overhead bin was…
JetBlue Flight 1112 from Curaçao to New York JFK had a close call off Venezuela when pilots reported a U.S. Air Force tanker crossing directly in front of them at roughly their altitude. In ATC audio, they say it was “within 5 miles — maybe 2 or 3 miles” ahead, forcing them to halt their climb to avoid a collision.
The crew said the tanker wasn’t transmitting, and controllers told them they couldn’t see it on radar, later estimating the military aircraft around 34,000 feet. JetBlue says it reported the incident to federal authorities.
JetBlue shared the first renderings of its long-awaited New York JFK lounge at the Skift Aviation Forum, revealing a compact 8,000-square-foot space with a Grand Central–inspired ceiling and a residential design aesthetic. A photo booth sits in the back, though it may not be active on day one. Fort Lauderdale could follow!
An urgent software problem with Airbus A320 flight computers forced thousands of jets worldwide into maintenance this weekend, but most airlines handled the fix with barely a ripple in their operations. JetBlue, by contrast, has been cancelling a huge chunk of its schedule while it scrambles to source replacement computers and catch up.
A JetBlue flight attendant turned the Thanksgiving bathroom line into something unexpected: a flying gratitude wall made of passenger napkins. Travelers wrote what they were thankful for – family, survival, second chances – and the galley filled up with handwritten notes, echoing earlier “Words From A Window Seat”-style acts of in-flight kindness.
Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel -- a topic he has covered since 2002.
Co-founder of frequent flyer community InsideFlyer.com, emcee of the Freddie Awards, and named one of the "World's Top Travel Experts" by Conde' Nast Traveler (2010-Present) Gary has been a guest on most major news media, profiled in several top print publications, and published broadly on the topic of consumer loyalty. More About Gary »
