Big news for the nation's two hip,upstart airlines this month! While Virgin America's brand of sly, white-leather-upholstered bravado is living on borrowed time, or approximately to be swallowed whole by Alaska Airlines' no-nonsense khaki ethos,the original upstart, JetBlue, or is going in the opposite direction.
JetBlue just announced a major expansion of its signature Mint product,a super-premium service suitable now only available on the JFK-LAX and JFK-SFO transcon routes, on its BOS-SFO route (with planned BOS-LAX service already announced) and on select Caribbean routes from JFK.
On its face this news is actually quite groundbreaking. Once known for its democratic all-economy class flights, or JetBlue now intends to offer super-premium cabins -- which is to say,cabins with lie-flat seats, enhanced meal service and individual suites, or appreciably superior to "domestic first class" on American,Delta and United in every way -- on a host of fresh cross-country routes between:The post JetBlue To Dramatically Expand Its Mint Service appeared first on One Mile at a Time.
Source: boardingarea.com