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How to Sleep With a Flight Attendant (And What They Think About You)

Our lesson learned: not all JetBlue FAs will go Slater on you, but that doesn’t mean you should treat them badly

You may want to address any issues you have with anger or jealousy before you read the rest of this post, because if you’ve ever had any flight attendant-related fantasies, you may well want to hurt us. Why? Because we slept with a flight attendant the other week.

No, not in the Biblical sense, of course. Perish the thought! We mean it literally. We befriended a JetBlue flight attendant on a flight, and she ended up being so nice that when we found ourselves alone in her home town, she invited us to stay with her. On her waterbed. Yes, the story really is that good.

It took place last month. We were on our first flight of All You Can Jet, riding from Vegas to New York, and Jennifer – we won’t tell you her second name, in case you try to stalk steal her from us – was working the flight. We liked her instantly – she was friendly but professional, approachable without being in your face. She was, we remember thinking, the perfect person to get us off the ground for the next 30 days of flying.

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Another AYCJ 2010 Success Story: 'I Paid $499 to Fly 18,969 Miles'

One more All You Can Jet Pass story for good measure. This one comes from Dan, a good friend and reader of Jaunted. Enjoy!

I flew 18,969 mileson JetBlue's AYCJ-5 2010 Pass between September 7 and October 7. Some more fun numbers: I flew into/out of 8 airports, visited 5 States and 3 countries, spent 10 nights in hotels, sat on 13 different airplanes, had a hell of a lot of fun, and used $2,510.07 worth of airfare. How much did it cost me? $499. That's right; I paid $499 to fly 18,969 miles, all while still managing to work 4 days a week.

This is my 2nd year doing the AYCJ Pass, and I had so much fun last year that I jumped on the opportunity to purchase it again.

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The Last Day of AYCJ: The Foreigner Out to 'See America' Speaks

My AYCJ experience was different from that of many others because a) I am British and b) I wanted to use this as an excuse to see parts of America that I knew I never would otherwise. I remember reading about AYCJ last year and thinking, “If they do it again next year, and you are in America, you will never forgive yourself if you don’t do it”. So I did.

The timing wasn't ideal—I had to work (remotely) right through the month and, of course, I ended up having more work to do than I had in the past three months combined. So there were a lot of 5am starts, and a devastating Saturday night spent chained to my computer in New Orleans. But even though that meant I had to spend longer in each place and see fewer cities, I still managed a fair deal.

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The Last Day of AYCJ: Will There Be a 2011 Pass?

AYCJ 2010 officially ends this evening, which—all things considered—is kind of a huge bummer. JetBlue's All You Can Jet website is displaying a sad banner that says "we're sorry... the last date of travel is October 6." Tragic. Potentially even more tragic is that there's no promise of an AYCJ 2011 on the site.

So will there be a third annual AYCJ? It depends on whether the LCC thinks that the program has been a success. There are easy ways to imagine why it might be a loser for them. Certainly if all of the AYCJ flights were purchased by the passengers at full price, JetBlue would have made more money.

And it's not like the airline is straightforwardly getting new customers, since most of the people who buy the passes are travel junkies who buy tickets based on price and already search JetBlue. But that logic can be a little deceptive because there's no reason to believe that those full-priced tickets—the ones that get used "for free" by AYCJ pass holders—would have been purchased. Those seats may have just gone to waste.

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The Last Day of AYCJ: The Most Boring All You Can Jetter Speaks

I bought the $499 AYCJ-5 pass back in August with the explicit goal of becoming the most boring AYCJ'er the skies have ever seen. Huh? Well, the pass was purchased for my business travel. With the idea of condensing two months of travel into two weeks, I had big plans to first save money and second, create more time.

The saving money part was easy to document. I knew that in the months of September I needed to travel from RDU to Boston, to New York twice, and to Las Vegas. A quick web airfare search back in August showed me that buying either many one-way trips or one big multi-destination trip was going to cost me somewhere between $900 - $1200 depending on a variety of factors (airline, times of flights, day of flights, etc).

Since JetBlue's pass was going to save me approximately $600, the decision to buy it was a no-brainer. Furthermore, buying the pass would allow me more flexibility in scheduling my travel, and the ability to come back home for a couple days in between my two main trips. Even when I added in the cost of renting a car at one of my destinations, the AYCJ-5 was saving me over $500.

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AYCJ 2010 Begins to Wind Down

In an effort to avoid a repeat of the insane disaster from our last AYCJ 2010 trip, which involved what ought to have been a straightforward IAD to JFK to LAX itinerary, we booked a direct flight between IAD and LGB last Thursday. Sure Long Beach is a lot farther from Jaunted's Los Angeles HQ than is LAX, and sure the drive is that much more annoying.

But as we pulled into the gate into the quaint aviation-related outpost that is LGB, the CNN feed on JetBlue's wonderful Direct TV announced that there were five-hour delays at JFK because of the torrential downpour. Suddenly the extra drive seemed kind of charming. Veritably scenic, in fact.

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Tweet of the Week: That's So Meta.

We love Tuesdays. Why, you ask? Because the day brings many travel tips and quips as "Travel Tuesday" on Twitter, and we're going to share our favorite with you. Got an avid travel twitterer we should follow? Let us know.

There are many excellent arguments for flying on planes that have seat-back TVs for each seat. One basic one is that you get to watch whatever you want, not like the overheard screen-played X-Men movie through which we suffered on an Alitalia Chicago to Milan flight. Nope. Instead, with seat-back TVs, you can watch stuff like The Simpsons, or even—if you're on an airline with satellite TV, like JetBlue—the season premiere of the show, at the same time as those at home are watching it.

This was what happened to tweeter @GirlOnFerry, who usually tweets her commute on the Staten Island Ferry, but this month is supplementing it with tales of the adventures she's having with a JetBlue All You Can Jet pass. The most recent:

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A Connected Traveler's Dream: Rows Upon Rows of Shiny Plugs at JFK

If you're on the All-You-Can-Jet JetBlue pass like several of the Jaunted staff (disclosure: who totally all paid in full for their own), you'll undoubtedly end up making a connection through JFK this season. Even if you're not on a pass, but will probably find yourself moving through New York, it behooves you to know about this row of plugs and computers, in the back of the terminal between gates 23 and 24. Thanks to new airline regulations, after all, you might find yourself spending quite a bit of time here if you spend any time at all.

Rows like this one, which are bathed in JetBlue's free and fast WiFi, are actually found in several places throughout JetBlue's T5 terminal. There are two just on this side of the structure, along the row of gates here. This one is placed far enough back, though, that it almost always has empty seats. Plus if you squint your eyes toward the back, and focus on that small Samsung charging station, you can just make out the bar that's directly behind it. By virtue of also being in the back of the terminal, is also often deserted. Useful!

So don't be afraid of moving through the whole terminal before posting up and plugging in. It's not like the pace of flights leaving JFK is exactly overwhelming, so you should have plenty of time to make it back to your gate from just about anywhere in T5.

[Photo: Omri Ceren / Jaunted]

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Taking Off on JetBlue's AYCJ Pass: A First Flight Report

With the JetBlue All-You-Can-Jet month officially underway, it was time for us to start using our pass. We got our first chance on a direct Long Beach-LGB to Washington Dulles-IAD flight last week, and it turns out that getting to fly anywhere in the country on 3 days notice is kind of awesome.

We walked into LGB after a relatively painless morning Supershuttle ride from Jaunted's West Coast HQ in Los Angeles. Long Beach isn't so much an airport as a pair of doublewide trailers connected by a couple of plaster walls, which has good and bad aspects. Advantage? Short lines. Disadvantage? Very few actually, though we always get a little weirded out when we have to walk 5 minutes across a tarmac to get to our plane. Everything considered, it probably took us as long to get through the check-in line as it took us to get from the gate to the plane. Which, again, was kind of awesome.

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Live from T5: JetBlue's All You Can Jet Pass Kicks Off with a New Airplane

We're biting into a blue donut as we write this, live from the central food court area of JetBlue's Terminal 5 at New York-JFK Airport. We're here not only to see off the many free-spirited folk who leave today for a month of unlimited flights on their All You Can Jet Passes, but also to see off three of our own to their journeys.

The kickoff for the second annual AYCJ pass began with free Dunkin Donuts, AYCJ-branded flight jackets, pins, luggage tags and a big announcement from the airline: they'd dedicated a new plane to the AYCJers, many of whom already flew in this morning from other JetBlue cities on their AYCJ passes, just to attend the JFK party. The plane, an Airbus A320, is the first JetBlue plane to sport the new tail design, a blue-and-orange stripey deal simply called "The Barcode." Expect to see it on more new planes soon! What you won't be seeing anywhere else however, is the special name of this one—"All Blue Can Jet".

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The JetBlue and Jaunted AYCJ Contest: We Have a Winner

Last week, we rolled out an awesome contest to send one of you, our equally awesome (if not more so) readers off and around the country on one of the infamous and sold-out JetBlue All You Can Jet Passes. Over the course of the contest's two days, you all left a barrage of comments to enter, some 450+ of them.

Your comments were inspiring, enlightening and some, plain hilarious. It's also funny that a few think JetBlue flies to Europe, when you'll only be able to get as far as Bermuda.

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Win an All You Can Jet Pass from JetBlue and Jaunted

Update: 11:59am on August 25: The contest is now closed. Comments after 11:59pm EST on 08/25/10 will not count for entries in the contest.

Today is the day. The day for what, you ask? Well, if you were one of the lucky ones to score a JetBlue All You Can Jet Pass before the airline sold out of them last week, then today is the day you may begin booking your multitude of flights. For those without the AYCJ pass, it's back to life on the ground as usual...or is it? You see, there's still a chance to go off jetting, and this time for free, because...

We're giving away one of the coveted AYCJ-7 passes from JetBlue, and you can enter to win it by leaving a comment below. The prize is the AYCJ-7 pass, which sold for $699 but is yours for free if you win. It allows you fly to any of JetBlue's 60+ destinations on any day of the week, starting from September 7 and lasting through October 6. You'll also be able to join the active AYCJ community here, for trip planning help, meet-ups and more. Terms apply.

Entering is simple; just leave a comment on this story and tell us where you will go with the AYCJ-7 pass. You will have to be a registered member of Jaunted to leave a comment. You can become one here.

ENTER TO WIN A FREE AYCJ-7 PASS HERE

* The contest entry period closes at 11:59pm on Wednesday, August 25.
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This contest is now closed.