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JetBlue enters lounge space with JFK, Boston clubs planned for 2025 — a stunning shift
19.09.2024 - 13:07 / thepointsguy.com / John F.Kennedy / Delta I (I) / Marty St George / St George
JetBlue is making a major splash in the premium travel space with its first-ever airport lounges. The New York-based carrier will open two lounges starting in 2025, JetBlue said Thursday — one at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) and another at Boston Logan International Airport (BOS).
Access will be a prime perk for JetBlue loyalists, from flyers with top-tier Mosaic elite status to customers flying its premium Mint cabin on transatlantic routes.
It'll also be a complimentary benefit for future cardholders of a soon-to-be-announced premium JetBlue credit card.
It's a bold move for JetBlue, one clearly meant to compete more forcefully with larger carriers in the Northeast, such as Delta Air Lines, which has a sizable presence at both JFK and Logan — and which recently cut the ribbon on a high-end Delta One Lounge this summer.
"Customers have asked for a JetBlue lounge for years, and we can't wait to unveil our take in New York and Boston," President Marty St. George said in a statement announcing the news Thursday.
Adding lounges to its portfolio is also something of a stunning reversal for JetBlue.
As recently as this summer, executives downplayed the possibility of adding a lounge network, and pointed to other areas of JetBlue's operation (like its renowned inflight food-and-beverage service) as primary focus areas for the carrier to hold a competitive edge.
"Yes, people like lounges. Obviously, a lounge is better than no lounge ... lounges are also extremely expensive," St. George said in a June interview with TPG. "The question is, are lounges [profit and loss] positive to do this big transatlantic lounge network? No."
Since then, though, JetBlue leaders devised an elaborate strategy meant to push the airline back to profitability for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began.
The plan, called "JetForward," includes a $400 million investment between 2025 and 2027 in premium products.
Detailing that path forward in late July, JetBlue leaders publicly teased a major premium-product announcement. Some on Wall Street predicted a domestic first-class-style onboard product.
Instead, though, the carrier has elected to dive headfirst into the airport lounge realm with two clubs at its biggest hubs.
Once open, the lounges should prove to be a major draw for customers aiming for high-level status in JetBlue's TrueBlue program or planning a Mint flight on the carrier's growing European route network.
JetBlue's first airport lounge, spanning 8,000 square feet, will open in late 2025 inside JFK's Terminal 5, the carrier announced Thursday.
Its second, an 11,000-square-foot facility at Boston's Terminal C, will open soon after.
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