JetBlue Enables Buying Tickets with Interline Partners on Website

JetBlue Enables Buying Tickets with Interline Partners on Website

JetBlue Airways has announced that tickets that include travel on Aer Lingus, American Airlines and Cape Air are now available for sale on www.jetblue.com. Aer Lingus and American Airlines tickets that include travel on JetBlue are already available on those airlines’ websites.

“Our growing presence in New York, Boston, and San Juan has positioned us to take advantage of important partnership opportunities,” said Robin Hayes, JetBlue’s chief commercial officer. “This ability leverages our jetblue.com platform to drive even more benefit from our interline partnerships, while adding tremendous advantages to our customer, with more options and flexibility.”

With this website enhancement, JetBlue is expanding the geographic reach of the site, allowing customers to book travel from within the JetBlue network to new international markets in Europe, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean—still with just a few clicks.

Now both jetblue.com and aerlingus.com, partners since 2008, offer customers the option to purchase tickets that include space on both carriers. Customers can fly from points within the JetBlue network to Boston or JFK, connect to Aer Lingus’ trans-Atlantic service to Ireland, and then to over a dozen destinations across Europe.

Additionally, an American customer can buy AA tickets at jetblue.com, and a JetBlue customer can purchase JetBlue tickets at aa.com. The two carriers launched their partnership in March 2010 with an enhanced interline agreement, slot exchange and employee travel program.To date, the carriers have added new interline routes, instituted benefits to members of both carriers’frequent flier programs and, with today’s announcement, allow customers to buy tickets on each other’s websites.