At the beginning of February JetBlue revealed its new Mint Suite and Mint Studio seats, which will eventually be used on transatlantic flights. However, these seats will first make an appearance on routes between New York and Los Angeles. A couple of days ago we learned the first frequency to get the new seats, and…
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As of now, Mint is not bookable on these flights. I imagine this changed at some point after posting.
Just purchased! Studio is a $199 surcharge which feels too high for a transcon.
@door, he literally says "8300 jb points is a steal" in the article so no, its not just you...
Thanks for reporting this! I had just booked an EWR-LAX Mint points ticket for July 3, so I changed it to this flight (on July 5, since it was cheaper). Was already in two thrones on the original ticket, and this ended up costing us 30K more points apiece total for two Studios (between higher award fare and Studio add-on, coming to 84,900 apiece), but, fuck it, I figure it's worth it for new and exciting.
hate the timing of the flights but whatever. SO COOL! why are they taking SO LONG to use the planes though? are they just chilling somewhere for the next 2 months or....?
@Ivan X, I thought this was only on the JFK-LAX route from June 1-9? Is JetBlue also scheduling the plane on week of 4th of July?
Thx Lucky. I made a booking. I still remember back in 2014 when Mint was unveiled that they priced them starting at $499 one-way JFK-LAX. This isn’t that bad at $648.
Would you like them without WiFi and IFE? Probably not, hence the wait. Probably will be used as an operational spare if it gets out of the hangar early.
@Joey reread Lucky’s post — he has the routes for June 10 through Sept 7 as well. Congrats on the booking!
Looks like B6 will fly two new A321neo planes between JFK and LAX starting on June 10, 2021.
Out of JFK, B6 123 departs at 6:59 am ET (arriving at 9:59 am PT) and, as you already noted, B6 2123 departs at 9:00 am ET (arriving at 11:59 am PT).
Out of LAX, B6 424 departs at 11:20 am PT (arriving at 8:01 pm ET), and, as you noted, B6 1524 departs at 1:20 pm PT (arriving at 10:00 pm ET).
I guess demand was strong.
@Ivan X, thank you! Yep just reread it now and see it. I don't recall reading that before.
"B6424 Los Angeles to New York departing 11:20PM arriving 8:01PM"
That doesn't seem right, did you mean 8am? Or do we get to experience Mint on an 18 hour flight 🙂
@hanchicago Thank you for the report! (And thanks Lucky for updating your post!) I cancelled my July 5th flight in Mint Studio and booked the early one on July 4th, which was lower priced.
However, I was shocked to see is that the points premium for the Studio seats jumped all the way from 8,300 to 19,900 (the cash price remained the same at $199) -- and I'm a Mosaic member. I wonder whether the 8,300 was an error, or what. I got it anyway, because JetBlue annoyingly doesn't let you change an award ticket, only cancel it, even if you call them, so I probably would have suffered the higher Studio cost even if I tried to get my old booking back. I preferred the new date anyway, and it was still fewer points overall, but not by much.