Good morning! We're coming at you live from Terminal 5 at JFK International Airport, where Jetblue's inaugural direct flight to the Caribbean island of St. Lucia is about to take off...with us on board. And aww—they got us a cake!

You may have already noticed, but we love us some first flights, and so we'll be bringing you all the details from this game-changing flight.

And how is it game-changing, you ask? Well, in two ways: it's a triumph for an LCC like Jetblue to take this route usually owned by legacy carriers like American, but also because it means a huge influx of American (and New Yorker) visitors to the island of St. Lucia, which up until now has been the paradise of mainly British and French travelers.

Oh, and St. Lucia flights one-way will be on sale for $129. Since the pricing is way cheaper than American has been charging to date, can we expect a fare ware on this route? Probably. ]]> JetSetCD 2009-10-26T06:31:32-05:00 40.6444122 -73.782745 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2009/6/25/145146/994

Despite their common name, not many New Yorkers confuse Terminal 5, JFK's recently renovated home of JetBlue and Terminal 5, the concert venue which hosts bands like Metric and Phoenix. But in April when JetBlue launched its concert series "Live at T5," they crept slightly closer together and now JetBlue is opening Live at T5 to the amateurs. Thus, the real competition begins.

Aspiring background musicians for airline boarding can apply by submitting original music to OurStage.com where it will be voted on by people who notice these things faster than we do. The Grand Prize includes a performance at both Terminal 5s as well as two round-trip flights on JetBlue, which just might be, as one famous singer of our age would say, the best of both worlds.

Related Stories:
· April: JetBlue's Live at T5 Will Get JFK's Groove Back [Jaunted]
· T5 coverage [Jaunted]

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For air travelers flying in and out of Jetblue's new Terminal 5 at JFK, it's easy to imagine the spacious food court and area around the Infohalo as being the perfect spot for a performance. And for New Yorkers, it's easy to confuse this Terminal 5 with the popular Manhattan music venue also called Terminal 5.

It's no wonder then that Jetblue has begun their own concert series in the airport, pairing up with Superfly Productions and Bowery Presents of the Terminal 5 music venue to bring acts beneath the Infohalo throughout the summer and early fall. The six-month "Live at T5" series began last week with Dan Dyer and will last through Thanksgiving weekend, injecting a little groove into the airport rigamarole.

Although future performers have not been announced, don't be surprised if before your next flight to Portland, Maine, you find yourself sipping a smoothie and swaying to live salsa.

Related Stories:
· Jetblue's Live at T5 Announcement [Twitter]
· T5 at JFK Coverage [Jaunted]

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Attention CEOs and victims of the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme: JetBlue understands your financial situation and knows that your private jet may be on furlow for some time, so they'd like to extend a welcome to the public skies with some instructional videos on how to make the best of the worst of times.

The pertinent "Welcome BigWigs" campaign centers around three tongue-in-cheek videos which both espouse the JetBlue jetting doctrine (leather seats, seatback TV, free snacks) and offer a bit of comic relief on the current financial state of affairs. And we have to say, they are flippin' hilarious. ]]> JetSetCD 2009-03-18T09:35:55-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2009/1/19/135319/560

While you can expect a new airline terminal to have a thing for reminiscing over the chic days of burgeoning jet travel, Jetblue's Terminal 5 at JFK has stepped beyond retro cocktail lounges and barbershops to embrace a designer shoeshine stand.

Paying homage to the design of the original TWA Terminal 5, designed by Eero Saarinen, Jetblue's stand has taken the famous "Egg" chair design by another Scandinavian contemporary of Saarinen, Arne Jacobsen, and transformed it into a shoeshine worthy of the history of the location. Operated by A Shine & Co. out of San Francisco, the stand employs a colorful cast of people who actually act as though buffing your loafers was the highlight of their day.

Because of New York's recent heavy winter weather and all of the resulting salt on the streets, we bet that A Shine & Co. is doing brisk business restoring the sheen to many shoes. This might no longer be the days of wingtips, but it is always nice to see someone attempting to make the best arrival appearance as possible. Now to rid the world of "travel sweatpants."

Related Stories:
· A Shine & Co. [Official Site]
· T5 at JFK coverage [Jaunted]
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While Ellen Wernecke was dealing with the five stages of flight delays at LGA recently, our occasional correspondent JetSetCD was enjoying the new T5 at JFK, built by an airline that knows something about awful winter weather.

As New York City buttoned up on Friday for its first snowstorm of the season, I headed straight into the belly of the beast. Although I've been to JetBlue's new Terminal 5 at JFK twice before on trial runs, I'd yet to actually fly out of it under full operation. With strong winds and heavy snow forecast for the day, I decided to forget about the possibility of delay for my flight and instead focus on watching the new, innovative terminal stretch its legs.

Despite the flood of New Yorkers headed out of town on the Friday before Christmas, the wait at security was non-existent and I quickly found myself snuggling in with the WiFi warriors in the food court. When JetBlue described this concourse as inspired by Union Square in New York, they must've meant something more like Whole Foods; there is a deli-style buffet with an abundance of fresh salad choices, barrels of bags of apple chips versus potato chips, fresh fruit to cure your travel scurvy and the best looking donuts I've ever sunk my teeth into. (The perfect frosting alone was award-winning food porn.)]]> JetSetCD 2008-12-22T13:30:35-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2008/12/19/141253/71

Things may be absolutely horrible over at LGA, but even delayed fliers seem to be taking the snowstorm in stride at JFK. Our occasional correspondent JetSetCD reports live from the scene...

Flights canceled to Buffalo, Rochester... and Palm Beach?! Ah, the joys of the holidays.

In JetBlue's new Terminal 5, people are drinking wine while waiting for flights. Those scheduled before about right now seem to be having only minor delays whereas later flights aren't faring so well. But people are happy, not stressed; just chilling. It's a nice environment, so I guess that helps. There's lots of action in the food court and in the kids play area.

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