JetBlue flash sale drops many routes below $100 round trip
JetBlue has launched a 48-hour flash sale that has dropped fares below $100 round trip on many of the carriers's routes across the nation.
The two-day sale ends at 11:59 p.m. Wednesday and is good for travel through March 9, though there are several blackout dates within the window. Among the other fine print: Sale fares on most routes not available on Fridays and Sundays. The blackout dates are Dec. 16 through Jan. 4; Jan. 16; and Feb. 18-20. Only nonstop itineraries are included in the sale pricing.
The sale fares fall under JetBlue’s “Blue” fare type, which does not include free checked baggage as part of the purchase price. The offer is also subject to capacity controls, meaning sale fares could sell out on individual flights. A cursory check as of late Monday morning showed decent availability of the advertised fares.
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Airlines have long resorted to fare sales to fill empty seats during low-demand periods like the slow season that develops between Thanksgiving and Christmas and again during the weeks that follow the New Year’s holiday. But flash sales like JetBlue’s two-day event have become increasingly common as airlines try to exploit online sales channels. JetBlue rolls out several such sales a year.
But it's perhaps Southwest that has become the best-known for the tactic. The Dallas-based carrier drops prices to as low as $49 each way in extraordinarilly broad 72-hour sales that it has rolled out twice a year in recent years. One of those sales in June 2015 received so much interest that the carier was forced to extend it by a day after bargain-seekers crashed its website.
JetBlue’s latest two-day sale covers a variety of routes, with one-way fares listed as low as $34 each way.
Bargain-hunters seeking deals on JetBlue will find most of the airline’s best deals are to or from its hubs and focus cities, which include New York JFK, Boston, Fort Lauderdale, Orlando and Long Beach, Calif.
The cheapest fares are generally on the shortest routes, though there are exceptions. Among those are the $74 each way fare on the 1,820-mile route between Albuquerque and New York JFK or the $94 one-way fare on the 800-mile Fort Lauderdale-Richmond, Va., route. Some international routes also are included, such as JetBlue's $64 one-way fares on the 1,150-mile route between Aruba and Fort Lauderdale.
The sale appears to top out at $239 each way (Boston-San Francisco), though dozens of other routes are on sale for prices between $79 and $234 each way.
Scroll down for a partial list of routes with fares of $74 or less each way in JetBlue’s sale. You can check out the full list of routes included in JetBlue’s sale on the carrier’s website.
$34 each way
Las Vegas-Long Beach, Calif.
$39 each way
Baltimore-Boston; Washington Reagan National-Charleston, S.C.; Long Beach, Calif.-Reno; Long Beach, Calif.-Oakland; San Francisco-Long Beach, Calif. (Full list)
$44 each way
Buffalo-Boston; Boston-Richmond, Va.; Sacramento-Long Beach, Calif.; San Jose, Calif.-Long Beach, Calif.; New York JFK-Buffalo (Full list)
$49 each way
Boston-Philadelphia; Boston-Nashville; Pittsburgh-Fort Lauderdale; Fort Lauderdale-New Orleans; New York JFK-Portland, Maine; New York JFK-Raleigh/Durham (Full list)
$54 each way
Washington Dulles-New York JFK, $54; Albany, N.Y.-Fort Lauderdale; Boston-Newark; New York LaGuardia-Boston; Charlotte-Boston; Cleveland-Fort Lauderdale (Full list)
$59 each way
Hartford-Washington Reagan National; Baltimore-Orlando; Washington Reagan National-West Palm Beach; San Juan, Puerto Rico-St. Thomas, Virgin Islands (Full list)
$64 each way
Aruba-Fort Lauderdale; Buffalo-Fort Lauderdale; Charleston, S.C.-New York JFK; Detroit-Fort Lauderdale; Jacksonville, Fla.-Washington Reagan National; New York JFK-Bermuda; New York JFK-Burlington, Vt. (Full list)
$69 each way
Westchester County, N.Y.-Fort Lauderdale; Austin-Fort Lauderdale; Savannah-JFK; Philadelphia-Fort Lauderdale; Rochester, N.Y.-New York JFK (Full list)
$74 each way
Albuquerque-New York JFK; San Francisco-Las Vegas; Hartford-Tampa; Syracuse, N.Y.-New York JFK; Boston-Cleveland (Full list)
$79 and up each way
See the full list at JetBlue's website.
