JetBlue Airways : Ask Biography

Airline

Airline

JetBlue Airways

IATA

ICAO

JBU

Callsign

JETBLUE

Founded

February , 1999

Bases

John F. Kennedy International Airport (New York City)

Focus cities

*Logan International Airport (Boston) *Orlando International Airport *Fort Lauderdale � Hollywood International Airport *Long Beach Airport *Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport
(San Juan, Puerto Rico)

Frequent-flyer program

TrueBlue

Fleet size

167 (121 orders)

Destinations

Company slogan

You Above All

Parent company

JetBlue Airways Corporation

Headquarters

Forest Hills, New York City

Key people

* David Neeleman (Founder) * Joel Peterson (Chairman) * David Barger (President and CEO) * Rob Maruster (EVP and COO) * Robin Hayes (EVP and Chief Commercial Officer)

Revenue

(+) US$ 3.779 billion (2010)

Operating income

(+) US$ 333 million (2010)

Net income

(+) US$ 97 million (2010)

Total assets

(+) US$ 6.593 billion (2010)

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JetBlue Airways Corporation (NASDAQ - JBLU) is an American low-cost airline. The company is headquartered in the Forest Hills neighborhood of the New York City borough of Queens. Its main base is John F. Kennedy International Airport, also in Queens.

In 2001, JetBlue began a focus city operation at Long Beach Airport in California, and another at Boston's Logan International Airport, in 2004. It also has focus city operations at Fort Lauderdale � Hollywood International Airport, Orlando International Airport and at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan. The airline mainly serves destinations in the United States, along with flights to the Caribbean, The Bahamas, Bermuda, Barbados, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, and Mexico. JetBlue serves 70 destinations in 22 states (including Puerto Rico), and eleven countries in the Caribbean, South America and Latin America.

JetBlue maintains a corporate office in , a satellite office in , and its Information Technology center in Garden City, New York. JetBlue is a non-union airline.

According to Skytrax, JetBlue is the highest rated airline in the United States, and the country's only four-star airline.