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Save/ShareStarting in April, JetBlue will offer passengers a chance to sit in seats that have 38 inches of legroom for a fee. That's four more inches of legroom than the other seats on JetBlue's larger planes. Fees will start as low as $10 one-way for short-haul flights, and must be paid for at the time of ticket purchase. The additional legroom on the longest journeys will cost an extra $20 one-way.
On JetBlue's larger planes (A320s), rows 2 through 5 and in the emergency-exit seats in rows 10 and 11 will feature the additional legroom.
On JetBlue's smaller planes (Embraer E190s), the service is offered for only for the emergency-exit-row seats.
To clarify its new policy, JetBlue's chief, David Barger, commented at an investor's conference that, "We're not going to a two-cabin airplane," meaning that the airline will not create a separate business class section.
The goal, not surprisingly, is to add more revenue, notes the blog Tripso.
JetBlue is also expanding to up to 10 gates at Orlando airport, increasing its flights from there to 18 other cities, including in the Caribbean and Latin America. Earlier this month, JetBlue inaugurated its first routes from Orlando, including daily nonstop service to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic and Cancun, Mexico. Later this year, daily nonstop service begins to Bogota, Colombia. The airline will continue to fly daily to Puerto Rico.
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Finally! I am 5'10" and have an awful time staying comfortable on flights...This should definitely help! I'll look to JetBlue for flights with this bonus in the future!
Posted By Ann Saad, CEO on March 24, 2008, 2:31 PM
5'10? I am 6'5" Emergency exit seating should be restricted to the tallest people on the flight. If I had a dime every time I saw some 5'2" shrimp sitting in one of these seats while I had to cram my knees into the back of some poor shlub, I'd have a few bucks...
Personally, I take digital pictures of those who are in the seats and send a complaint to the FAA. Clearly, some people who sit in Emergency exit seating could not handle the physical task, if something were to happen.
Posted By Daniel on March 24, 2008, 3:56 PM
I am only 5'6" but two of my sons are 6'4" - one flight I was on with one of them had the exit row seats 'taken' - by an elderly couple, one of whom was in a wheel chair!
I was so upset - now I know to take a picture and send to the airlines! My congrats to Jet Blue and I will send the notice to my sons.
Posted By kay on March 24, 2008, 5:46 PM
Oh please, I am 5'2" and can handle the emergency exit just as well as some 6 foot tall person.
I think this is a joke. Are they going to stop selling seats on the plane when all that's left are rows 2 - 5 and someone doesn't want to pay the extra money? Is the $10 per seat going to make up for the 3 or 4 seats they don't sell because consumers aren't willing to pay the extra money?
I flew Jet Blue every week for over a year from RIC to NY until they disconutined the 5:20PM from NY to RIC. They lost my business when they became too inconvient - who wants to wait until 10PM to go home for the weekend.
I am not willing to pay extra for a few more inches, just as I won't pay extra on Sterling to pre-choose my seat or pay United extra money to take 2 checked bags.
Posted By Robin on March 24, 2008, 7:52 PM
These seats will sell like hotcakes. Jet Blue, once again my heroes!
Posted By Jeff on March 30, 2008, 6:22 PM