While JetBlue and Etihad have had a partnership for around a decade, the airlines are taking this to the next level, with the introduction of reciprocal loyalty program perks.
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Considering Etihad's ties to Air France, KLM, Korean, Garuda, and Saudia; combined with Delta's lack of a connecting partner among the Arab airlines, plus the UA/EK and AA/QR partnerships...
...you'd think DL and EY would be working on increasing ties. But alas, doesn't seem to be the case.
Wonder what the holdup for such an outwardly-seeming obvious union, is?
I'm very excited for this. I love flying Jetblue domestically. They're probably at the top of my list of US airlines. And I've been waiting to compare Emirates and Ethiad.
I am truly impressed with this new Etihad commercial leadership team. It seems like they have been in a hurry catching up lost ground. Don't see a single day where they are not announcing something.
In terms of loyalty, I like their approach of expanding their ecosystem and protecting their key assets such as Residence to their own loyal flyers. Maybe, they are the first airline bringing back loyalty to those who fly?
Ben, would crediting a JB flight to one's Etihad account trigger an expiration date reset as a qualifying flight under the new system?
Well, there's a couple of sweet spots compared to the Qatar chart: 1) short haul economy (that may even beat B6 pricing in many cases); 2) transcontinental Mint (Qatar blew this up because of the redemption bonanza last fall); 3) that BOS-DUB flight clocks in potentially just under the 3000 mile mark, making it 60k in Mint (this is close enough it needs to be verified). Of course, this will be much less exciting because of Etihad's very bad, no good cancellation policy. Probably only usable for last minute flights.
On the earning side, it does seem like crediting to B6 is appealing on Etihad, but I would also consider crediting some economy flights on B6 to Etihad. As a revenue program, B6 gives very little for cheap tickets. This is especially true if you book through a 3rd party rather than direct. So, some of the cheap Caribbean flights will net you quite a few more Etihad miles than B6 miles.
Lucky, looks like Etihad is charging a significant amount of taxes/fuel surcharges on B6 transatlantic Mint. Seeing JFK-AMS and JFK-LHR for 80,000 miles plus $1,002 in taxes when searching in app or on the website. Terrible redemption with such high fees.
Can verify. This is officially useless as a way to book Mint for transatlantic flights. Qatar pricing is much better anyway.
However, transcontinental pricing is reasonable compared to Qatar. Still don't know that I would pay 50K for a JFK-LAX flight. And the short haul economy routes are in there too.
Is it me or is this redemption a joke? Example BOS > LAX JetBlue flight Blue far flight @ $139 vs. 34k + taxes Etihad miles.. was really hoping this partnership would unlock domestic flights with JB for Capital One miles members I guess I was wrong?
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