Comments on: jetBlue Rocks

By: Stevo

Stevo — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 10:54:11 +0000

And the best thing about David Neeleman is that he is LDS (like me). Wonderful man, amazing crews, amazing pilots. I very much enjoy JetBlue.

Thank you jet blue and glad you enjoyed the flight Scott!

By: Kevin Burton

Kevin Burton — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 19:50:39 +0000

I’m torn on JetBlue……

One good thing about David Neeleman is that he has ADD (like me) and embraces it as an asset. What makes me mad is that ADD is classified as a ‘disorder’ which I think is exactly the opposite.

http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2002/2002-10-08-jetblue-ceo.htm

However, JetBlue ALSO turned over passenger flight travel information to the US government without a warrant:

http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,60489,00.html

“JetBlue Airways confirmed on Thursday that in September 2002, it provided 5 million passenger itineraries to a defense contractor for proof-of-concept testing of a Pentagon project unrelated to airline security — with help from the Transportation Security Administration.”

…. which is crap!

By: giantmonster

giantmonster — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 22:00:22 +0000

i have always wanted to fly JetBlue. since 2003 i decided i never will fly JetBlue, despite how much i hear that they rock. i have purposely stayed away from traveling on JetBlue since they secretly gave away their passengers' personal information and customer database to a private contractor, Torch Concepts, for a data-mining operation for the Bush administration. this is a violation of the privacy act of 1974. that kind of disregard for privacy and doing it secretly - without letting their customers know what was happening with their personal data - i cannot endorse. despite the company being cool and new (combined with low prices - hard to beat that), JetBlue will never get my money. relevant links: http://news.com.com/2010-1029-5080339.html http://www.aclu.org/search/search_wrap.html?account=436ac9516921&q=jetblue&imageField.x=0&imageField.y=0&imageField=search

By: Ted Rheingold

Ted Rheingold — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 20:44:16 +0000

David Neeleman was on a JFK->OAK flight I took once. He put on an apron and served snacks all the way down the place. He stopped to answer every question along the way and there were many of them. It seemed like that was something he did with great frequency.

By: Irish

Irish — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 19:12:28 +0000

so cheap, so nice, so willing to turn over data to the TSA….

No thanks.

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:53:23 +0000

if only they’d adopt a north-south strategy and kick southwest’s ass…. (c’mon, guys, how had can it be to get from sf to seattle?)

By: Jasmeet

Jasmeet — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:49:59 +0000

Supposedly, they are gonna be introducing a more premium economy class (more pitch to the front seats) pretty soon. Not first class, but probably good enough to encourage more business minded people to fly with them.