JetBlue pressed ahead with the start of its daily JFK to Heathrow service, counting on its new Airbus A321LR jets, a longer-range variant of the A321neo, to underpin profits.
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Every novel seat design isn’t just a #PaxEx pathfinder: it’s also a pioneer project for safety regulators and certification of the seat itself and those that will come after it. With a new generation of herringbones, including the Thompson Aero Seating Vantage Solo, flying into the market, Runway Girl Network sat down over a call to talk design and certification with Thompson executives Jonny McGreevy (head of design), Martin Allen (head of certification) and Andy Morris (vice president, commercial at AVIC Cabin Systems).
As a cleansheet design, one of the benefits that Thompson had when coming fresh to Solo is that it was conceived, designed and developed specifically for the single-aisle market. This means that the seatmaker could do things it wasn’t able to do if it had started with an existing product that it was trying to make work in the space of a narrowbody.
JetBlue is about to make the friendly skies a little more comfortable.
In March, the airline unveiled its reimagined version of the Mint experience, marking the airline s first complete redesign of Mint, this time for transatlantic flights.
The new Mint class aboard the airline s A321 aircraft features 24 private suites, each with its own sliding door the ultimate in airline privacy. Each seat also comes with a custom-designed seat cushion by Tuft & Needle, which folds into a lay-flatbed so passengers can snooze from takeoff to landing. JetBlue Mint Studio seat Credit: Courtesy of JetBlue Mint was an idea to make premium travel across the U.S. less stuffy and more affordable, and its performance has exceeded even our most optimistic expectations of going beyond New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, Joanna Geraghty, president and chief operating officer, JetBlue, shared in a
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JetBlue announced it has formally taken delivery of its first Airbus A321neo (new engine option) aircraft configured with the airline’s reimagined premium Mint® experience and an all-new onboard layout, featuring comfort and connectivity perks that set the airline apart from other U.S. carriers. The aircraft is scheduled to arrive at JetBlue’s home at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) tonight from the Airbus production facility in Hamburg, Germany.
JetBlue’s A321neo with Mint features 16 Mint suites – including two Mint Studios™ – and 144 core seats. It will first operate on select flights between New York-JFK and Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) this summer. Today’s delivery – tail N2105J named “NEO Mintality” – brings JetBlue’s total fleet count to 270 aircraft, is the airline’s 16th A321neo and the first of this aircraft type to feature Mint.