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Jetblue 'Collaborates' With American To Score New Reagan-National Routes

March 31, 2010 at 10:27 AM | by | Comments (2)

You know what they say—if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. And no one knows this better than American Airlines and Jetblue today, since this morning they announced an interline agreement to "collaborate" on routes where they aren't directly at each other's necks in competition. The focus is on three airports: New York-JFK, Boston-Logan and Washington DC-Reagan National. Jetblue being the largest domestic airline at the first two airports, they are looking to trade some dominance for some access to Reagan National by being all buddy-buddy with American.

The terms of the agreement have American giving 8 slot pairs (a slot being the block of time during which an airline can operate a flight at an airport) at DCA and one slot pair at Westchester Airport to Jetblue and Jetblue giving back to American with 12 slot pairs at New York-JFK. Does this mean that we'll soon be sharing Terminal 5's breakfast buffet and free WiFi with passengers departing on American jets? It'd be crazy, but it could also be the future.

On the flip side, this collaboration means that passengers who come in on a domestic Jetblue flight and leave on an American international one from JFK or BOS will find the transition between carriers much smoother. Likewise for those going from American to Jetblue on connections.

Jetblue's new Washington DC-Reagan National flights will begin in November of this year and will go on sale probably during the summer. They plan on eight daily flights from DCA to east coast destinations, and Reagan will complete their being in the trip of DC-area airports, since they're already operating out of Washington-Dulles and Baltimore-Washington International.

Related Stories:
· American and Jetblue Sign Agreement to Collaborate [Jetblue Press Release]
· Jetblue to Launch Servie to DCA [Jetblue Press Release]
· Airline News [Jaunted]

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Inaccurate

This article really overstates what the agreement is, which is just an interline agreement that allows agents and customers to book thru routes that combine certain AA and Jetblue flights. It doesn't seem you can earn frequent flyer miles and the carriers won't be operating out of each other's terminals, so you'll still have to make the odd JFK connection between the two terminals.
Matthew Lubeck on March 31, 2010 at 4:40 PM #Permalink

thanks!

Hi Matthew, We went back and re-read the airline press releases carefully and you are correct, they did not specify that flyers will receive miles from booking on the other airline. The story has been corrected. However, we just hinted that wouldn't it be weird if we did see an American plane pull up to T5, not that they would be.
JetSetCD on April 1, 2010 at 7:43 AM #Permalink
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