JetBlue first introduced their Mint product in 2014, which was a big departure from their business model prior to that. Mint is JetBlues premium cabin, available on select A321 aircraft, which primarily operate transcon flights.
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United has matched this on a bunch of routes/dates. Worse product, but in case you need the elite qualification
@ Ben -- They're just using the A320 in the GDS to generically refer to A319/320/321. It has always displayed like that for JetBlue, for whatever reason. Nothing to worry about, though. 🙂
Worth mentioning the jetblue plus card from barclaycard - that gives you 6x points on JetBlue purchases. So you get 6x points base, 3x points as a mosiac, and another 6x from the credit card. If each point is worth $.014, then that's basically 21% back on airfare.
Not as good as $399, but they also have $449 for most of the next few months for Boston to Seattle in Mint.
How far in advance do you usually have to book for the $550 average price usually?
@ Michelle -- It really depends on the route or day of the week you're traveling. In some cases you can book a fare like that a couple of weeks out, and in other cases a couple of months out.
I think jetblue just had a fare from Boston to SFO (and vise versa) for about $350 one way or $700 round trip about a week ago.
That $399 fare has been around for a couple weeks and frankly is the best deal in the sky. Flew the “reverse red eye” from BOS-SFO last week in the row 2 Suites. 7 hours with headwinds. I’m bes mode it’s like the best MRI in the sky.
There is so much transcon competition for BOS-SFO that it’s getting ridiculous.
Thinking of booking this summer so we can have an easier time getting to OGG.
Lucky, I try to buy these Mint flights with the AMEX Business Platinum and they don't show up on the AMEX website. Just FYI, I know you mentioned the personal one so you are correct that you could do that and get your points. They seem to exclude this product, assuming on the JetBlue side.
I managed to book SFO-JFK for $509 which I thought was pretty amazing. That was 6 months prior to the flight - seats are now more than double that. Also grabbed a suite when I booked. Am flying in May and can't wait to try this out!!
What an amazing product.
Every time im in the state's prior to trump I fly mint lax to NYC.
Melbourne to canberra being a 45 minute flight we pay $800 aussie with qantas. Great value with mint.
Hey Ben, just wanted to let you know that it appears on the BOS-SFO route, Delta has matched Jetblue's $399 J class one way price, and this is a route where DL operates its transcon delta One service, so this is definitely a great opportunity for Delta flyers as well as they can fly a lie flat 757 for just $399 one way. I saw many many dates where this price match is true, so besides JetBlue Delta has also gone along for the dirt cheap premium transcontinental ride for the time being. Cheers!
Took a SFO-FLL jet blue, nice flight, but wouldn't do it again if they keep departing from international terminal. Was no way to connect without exiting security, and lines were like visiting China. No obvious signs for Pre-check either, had to ask. And person to ask was almost hiding.
@M Simons -- I've never found the pre-check lines at SFO Intl terminal hard to find; and have never waited more than 5 minutes to get through. And then there's even a PP lounge (Air France, I think) just after security. I don't like the terminal as much as T2, but hard for me to complain about it.