Happy Birthday Blue!

[AKAAB]

Feb 11, 2005 marks five years since the inaugural flight. Congrats to all for beating the odds and ignoring the naysayers.

AKAAB

 

[Bake]

The same thing could be said about my marriage, 6 years today (3 Kids) --gotta change that headboard.

 

[furloughfodder]

yippe

 

[jetbluedog]

Nice work guys.....keep up the good work.

The airline commenced service at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport on February 11, 2000, with a ceremonial flight to Buffalo, NY, and back before taking its first commercial flight to Fort Lauderdale, FL, later that day. Five years later, JetBlue is the largest airline at JFK and ranked as a ``major'' airline by the US Department of Transportation, having achieved annual revenues of more than a billion dollars.

Source: JetBlue Airways Corporation

To mark the occasion, David Neeleman, JetBlue's Chairman and CEO, and Dave Barger, President and COO, hosted an event for JetBlue crewmembers and customers to greet the arrival of the airline's 71st Airbus A320 aircraft, debuting the fleet's seventh tail fin design, Mosaic. Earlier in the day, the airline gave away 500 free tickets throughout New York City's five boroughs to support the charity City Harvest. Ticket seekers had to dress as their favorite JetBlue destination and bring canned goods for the charity.

``It's hard to believe it's been five years since we first flew to Buffalo and Fort Lauderdale from JFK,'' said David Neeleman, JetBlue's CEO. ``And now we serve Buffalo with seven daily flights to JFK and as many as two dozen flights a day between Fort Lauderdale and New York's JFK and LaGuardia airports. This airline's phenomenal success is a testament to our 8000........

 

[ATA73Pilot]

Congrats JetBLue...

Aside from the EMB-190 Pay Issue, you guys are a model of the way airlines should conduct business in the post 9/11 arena.