Fly JFK-SFO, JetBlue’s 1st email-enabled flight
JetBlue’s first flight to test their new “BetaBlue” free in-flight email service (on Yahoo) will take place Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2007, between New York (JFK) and San Francisco (SFO). The flight leaves JFK at 8 a.m. and arrives in SFO at 11: 30 a.m. Tickets are not cheap, but were still available for $459 one way, including taxes, when I checked this morning.
If you want to fly roundtrip from San Francisco and stay overnight, the fare is $784. I couldn’t find flight #641 on a return leg (by booking online) if I was traveling from Long Beach.
What do you think? Is this progress or is the U.S. just playing catch up to international airlines?
Over at Jaunted, editor “pbb” was underwhelmed about this announcement. I was a bit surprised to read the post, “Why JetBlue’s In-Flight WiFi Isn’t That Great,” but I’m still excited. Sure you can’t get Gmail or other websites yet, but it’s progress (and free). If JetBlue can make some headway then hopefully it will spark other airlines and they’ll react to the competition. Before you know it, Virgin America will have full access Wi-Fi and we can call it a perfect world. Am I speed-dreaming? Maybe.
Contact: JetBlue, 800-JETBLUE (538-2583); it costs an extra $10 to book by phone.
Related Links:
JetBlue tickets land on travel sites
Empty seats lead JetBlue to raise its discount-flier profile
— Jen Leo, Los Angeles Times Travel Deal Blogger
[Photo: JetBlue.com]
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December 7th, 2007 at 9:19 pm
One word..Crap. I actually relish being away and unreachable on a plane, it’s the only place I can say, sorry, I was in transit. Now corporate America is squeezing us again. I have a life and it’s mine until I land thank you.
cheers
December 8th, 2007 at 12:06 pm
I have taken two JetBlue flights in the last year, both through JFK. The wireless internet connection in their JFK terminal does not work properly, wasting the time of the laptop computer users that come through. You can go through the terminal and talk to the users who try to use the service only to give up. Sure, if it you have patience, maybe you can fetch a few emails, but the service seems sufficiently inadequate to the number of users and speeds necessary that I think it should be counted simply as broken and neglected.
So, I don’t know if the wireless internet service on the plane will work properly, but the company apparently will not move to fix the wireless internet service at its own terminal.
As for internet service on planes, halleluja. This would be an additional reason for me to take JetBlue, despite the one or two problems that come up with them.
December 8th, 2007 at 5:41 pm
Don’t know when you flew through JFK and had bad wireless, but I’ve flown through JFK 6 times this year- every time I used the free jetblue wireless with no problem.
I’m on an Apple, and I joined the network lickety split and surfed with no problem.
As for the Wrieless on the plane?
very cool.
Anything to make the flight go quicker and yet another reason to fly jetblue.
December 8th, 2007 at 11:13 pm
it is good
December 9th, 2007 at 9:18 am
JetBlue needs to have e-mail to keep people from going crazy …all the time I spend sitting in the plain witing for takeoff or just waiting on jetblue to find a parking space. They need to have something to entertain people other than a TV.