All-You-Can-Jet-Pass
JetBlue Airlines is going where no airline has gone before (at least according to my memory.) The eight-year old company is offering a unique promotion…for under $599, one can fly as many times and as many places that JetBlue flies for the time period of September 8 to October 8, 2009.
While $599 is definitely a lot of money for any travel budget, consider this: JetBlue flies to almost 60 destinations in 12 countries (including Costa Rica, Panama, Mexico, and the Caribean.) If you plan on making at least two cross-country trips or even a trip to the Caribbean, this promotion could easily pay for itself.
With hubs at JFK (New York City) and Long Beach (LA Area,) JetBlue has the country covered. With a strong emphasis in New England, Florida, and the Caribbean, you could easily have a multi-vacation-business-discount month of travel.
Of course, there are a couple of requirements: passes have to be booked by next Friday, flights have to be booked within three days of flying, and some international taxes are not included. It also appears you may have to some checking on availability in advance.
If you have never flown JetBlue, you should strongly consider this LGBT-friendly budget airline. The airline recently scored an 80/100 on Human Right Campaign’s 2009 Corporate Equality Index and has always had a plethora of perks: DirectTV, satellite radio, and endless snacks. Additionally, JetBlue was responsible for the recent makeover of Terminal 5, at JFK.
It will be interesting to see if other airlines follow suit. This promotion reminds me of using the efficient train service, Eurail, while backpacking in Europe…unlimited travel all over the continent. Now, however, JetBlue is bringing air travel to a new level.
I LOVE Jet Blue. I love having my own TV and the blue potato chips for a snack. When I lived in Long Beach, they were usually the cheapest flight available. I just wish they had more destinations out of Phoenix.
With JetBlue there is always a catch, so watch out for extra fees for what is elsewhere standard issue. They may charge for reservations, any baggage at all, water, food, blanket, security, taxes, whatever they can dream up next, etc.
As the old saw goes, “if it seems too good to be true…” – LOOK OUT!!!
Last time I tried to get a quote for a trip on JetBlue the reservationist was evasive and ill-mannered, but my persistence eventually showed that their final price (Toronto-London-Toronto) for two of us, minimal baggage but with seat reservations so that we could sit together, was actually higher than the competition (Air Transat) when the extras were added in. We then had to pay more at the counter when we checked in.
So keep asking what other charges are required, at any point of your journey, and don’t stop asking “what else?” until he/she says that’s all there is. And then ask “Are you sure?”
Get the reservationist’s name, have an email sent to you confirming ** the final price of your ticket ** so you have something to wave at the counter when the additional, extra, non-optional, on-top, last minute, airport-only, undisclosed, “quasi-government”, penultimate, non-discretionary fees are cranked in before they want to let you onto the aircraft.
And if you still get demands at the counter for more money, start literally shouting for a Manager (go straight to the top, a Supervisor will just waste your time and you will end up with a Manager anyway), wave your paper in his/her face (and have a few copies so they can’t deprive you of the evidence) and keep shouting until they stick to what _you_ agreed to.