2 Popular Airlines Have Teamed Up To Make Your Next Trip BETTER

A new partnership could change the way you fly.

Let’s go somewhere!

JetBlue and United Airlines have partnered to offer a collaboration that allows travelers to earn bonus miles and loyalty benefits across both airlines. Priority boarding, complimentary access to preferred seats, and same-day flight changes are just part of the combined benefits.

Get ready for Blue Sky: a new and unique collaboration between JetBlue and United Airlines that gives customers more options to find flights that fit their plans. Not only that, but there will be more opportunities for rewards members to earn and use MileagePlus miles and TrueBlue points across both airlines.

JetBlue and United Announce Blue Sky: Unique Consumer Collaboration That Links Loyalty Programs

Blue Sky will start rolling out as early as this fall, subject to regulatory review and approval, and will include the following:

United’s MileagePlus customers can earn and use miles on most JetBlue flights. JetBlue offers 90 daily flights between the Northeast and the Caribbean this summer – with regular nonstop direct flights to popular islands like Aruba, Barbados, and Jamaica. JetBlue’s TrueBlue members can earn and use points for flights on United’s extensive domestic and international network, the largest across the Atlantic and Pacific that includes popular destinations like Cape Town and Tahiti.
Each airline will offer flights on one another’s website and app to make booking across the two airlines’ complementary networks simple and easy. Blue Sky includes an interline agreement, not a codeshare, meaning each airline will continue to publish and market flights independently under its own brand and flight numbers.
The benefits of each airline’s loyalty program – priority boarding, complimentary access to preferred and extra legroom seats and same-day standby/switch – will be available when customers travel on the other airline’s aircraft.
As part of the airlines’ agreement, JetBlue will provide United access to slots at JFK International Airport for up to seven daily round-trip flights out of JFK Terminal 6 to begin as early as 2027. And, as part of a net-neutral exchange, JetBlue and United will exchange eight flight timings at Newark.
United will move its website and mobile app’s ability to sell hotels, rental cars, cruises and travel insurance, on both a stand-alone and package basis, to new technology and services provided by JetBlue’s Paisly platform.

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Joanna Geraghty, CEO of JetBlie, said, “This collaboration with United is a bold step forward for the industry — one that brings together two customer-focused airlines to deliver more choices for travelers and value across our networks.”

“Blue Sky reflects our airlines’ shared focus on innovation and the customer experience,” said United CEO Scott Kirby.

This infographic summarizes some of the benefits customers will enjoy over time*. JetBlue and United will share more details about the timing of these features later this year.

As part of BlueSky, members of each airline’s loyalty program will find similar benefits over time — as well as reciprocal revenue-based miles and points accrual and reciprocal miles and points redemption — when they use and earn miles or points on the partner airlines.

Timing for these reciprocal benefits will be announced later this year.

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Whether flying on United or JetBlue in the future, customers will receive benefits in line with what they receive now, including:

Priority treatment for check-in, boarding, security, and baggage
Access to preferred and extra legroom seats
Free first checked bag
Same-day changes and switches

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Both loyalty programs are free to join, and miles/points never expire. The two airlines also announced that United will move its website and mobile app’s ability to sell hotels, rental cars, cruises, and travel insurance to JetBlue’s Paisly platform. Hopefully, this partnership will make flying to Disney World even easier!

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