JetBlue deepens China Airlines tie-up, enabling Asia-bound point redemption while raising fees to counter costs and boost loyalty appeal.
JetBlue Airways Corporation (JBLU) Q1 2026 Earnings Call Transcript
JetBlue Airways, the No. 2 airline at Fort Lauderdale, is moving ahead with its flight plans there, it said, regardless of whether Spirit gets a government bailout.
Shares of JetBlue Airways gained about 6% Tuesday, reversing a 6.2% decline in the previous session, despite the carrier reporting a wider-than-expected first-quarter loss driven by rising fuel costs. The airline posted an adjusted loss of 86 cents per share on revenue of about $2.2 billion for the first three months of the year.
Although the revenue and EPS for JetBlue (JBLU) give a sense of how its business performed in the quarter ended March 2026, it might be worth considering how some key metrics compare with Wall Street estimates and the year-ago numbers.
JetBlue Airways (JBLU) came out with a quarterly loss of $0.87 per share versus the Zacks Consensus Estimate of a loss of $0.72. This compares to a loss of $0.59 per share a year ago.
JetBlue Airways said it is cutting capacity to try to make up for rising fuel costs.
JetBlue Airways replies to customers on social media every day—from assuaging their customer service woes to thanking them for choosing their flights. But one seemingly innocuous JetBlue response may have set a class action lawsuit in motion, after customers became convinced that the airline implicated itself in using surveillance pricing.
JetBlue's response to a social media post raised concern that the carrier employed "surveillance pricing" to make flying more expensive.
JetBlue is facing scrutiny over whether it uses surveillance pricing. Two members of Congress said in a Tuesday (April 21) press release that they sent the airline a letter Monday (April 20) requesting information about whether it uses customer data and artificial intelligence to set prices for consumers.
JetBlue (JBLU) doesn't possess the right combination of the two key ingredients for a likely earnings beat in its upcoming report. Get prepared with the key expectations.
Two Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday asked JetBlue Airways to answer questions about whether it was using customer personal data to set ticket prices after a company social media post sparked concerns.