NEW YORK, June 28, 2004 (PRIMEZONE) -- JetBlue Airways (Nasdaq:JBLU) today officially launched its new corporate booking tool, CompanyBlue. CompanyBlue provides, at no charge, corporate travel managers with online reporting tools to track employee spending, itineraries and flight credits while allowing corporate travelers to book JetBlue flights online quickly and easily.
Upon registering for CompanyBlue, companies are provided with a logo and an imbedded link with their company ID and password. Travel managers can place the imbedded logo on their intranet allowing travelers quick and easy access to their dedicated CompanyBlue booking site. For tracking these CompanyBlue bookings, travel managers are given access to a special password-protected website where reports detailing company spending, key market pair analysis, accrued/redeemed cancellation credits and employee itineraries can be viewed and/or downloaded.
"Travel managers have been asking us for this type of product for quite some time," said Noreen Courtney-Wilds, JetBlue's Director of Sales. "They already love our low fares and high quality customer service and frequency to many popular destinations. Since our fares are not widely available in the GDS, many companies were unable to easily track their JetBlue bookings. We have worked very closely with travel managers to develop CompanyBlue and we hope to continually enhance this product based on their feedback."
In addition to the standard JetBlue amenities like new planes, leather seats and DIRECTV(r) at every seat, companies will also recognize a better bottom line when using JetBlue for business with walk-up fares that are never more than $299 in nonstop markets, $25 change fees, transferable cancellation credits, free same day stand-by travel and free wireless internet access at JetBlue's Terminal 6 at JFK and in Long Beach Airport.
Along with all the benefits of using JetBlue for business travel, CompanyBlue bookings will also be backed by the CompanyBlue Service Commitment. While specific compensation and details are only made available to CompanyBlue customers, this commitment guarantees companies that JetBlue will make it up to their travelers if a flight is ever delayed more than two hours.
For more information or to register for CompanyBlue, companies should visit: www.jetblue.com/companyblue.
JetBlue is a low-fare, low-cost passenger airline, which provides high-quality customer service. JetBlue operates a fleet of 60 new Airbus A320 aircraft and plans to add another nine A320s to its fleet in 2004. The airline has 100 Embraer E190 aircraft on order with options for an additional 100 with deliveries scheduled to begin in mid 2005. All JetBlue aircraft feature roomy all-leather seats each equipped with free live satellite television, offering up to 24 channels of DIRECTV(r) Programming at every seat (see Note).
Based at New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport, JetBlue currently operates 252 flights a day and serves 27 destinations in 11 states, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. With JetBlue, all seats are assigned, all travel is ticketless, all fares are one-way, and a Saturday night stay is never required. For more information, schedules and fares, please visit www.jetblue.com or call JetBlue reservations at 1-800-JETBLUE (538-2583), 1-888-538-2583 if calling from Puerto Rico, or 1-888-751-2241 if calling from the Dominican Republic. This press release, as well as past press releases, can be found on www.jetblue.com.
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Note: DIRECTV(r) service is not available on flights between New York City and Puerto Rico or the Dominican Republic.
This press release contains statements of a forward-looking nature which represent our management's beliefs and assumptions concerning future events. Forward-looking statements involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions and are based on information currently available to us. Actual results may differ materially from those expressed in the forward looking statements due to many factors, including without limitation, our extremely competitive industry, our ability to implement our growth strategy including the integration of the Embraer E190 aircraft into our operations, our significant fixed obligations and our reliance on high daily aircraft utilization, increases in maintenance costs, fuel prices and interest rates, our dependence on the New York market, seasonal fluctuations in our operating results, our reliance on sole suppliers, government regulation, the loss of key personnel and potential problems with our workforce, the potential liability associated with the handling of our customer data and future acts of terrorism or the threat of such acts or escalation of U.S. military involvement overseas. Additional information concerning these and other factors is contained in the Company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including but not limited to, the Company's 2003 Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. We undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances that may arise after the date of this release.