JetBlue Elevates Summer Travel Experience with Exciting Onboard Additions

by Laurie Baratti
Last updated: 5:30 PM ET, Wed May 1, 2024

JetBlue is gearing up for the busy summer season by elevating the onboard experience for its passengers with the addition of delectable new snacks, dining menu changes, fresh entertainment options and more personalization capabilities through Blueprint by JetBlue. Here’s a look at what the low-cost airline’s customers can look forward to experiencing during their flights this summer.?

New Snacking Sensations

Kicking off on May 1st, JetBlue's complimentary snack selection is getting a flavorful boost with two exciting new additions. Partake's Classic Grahams will offer travelers a simply sweet treat, lovingly crafted with high-quality ingredients. Certified gluten-free, vegan, non-GMO and free from the top nine allergens, these graham crackers cater to various dietary needs, ensuring that all passengers can indulge worry-free.?

Meanwhile, Safe+Fair's Everything Bagel Pretzels cater to those with savory cravings, lightly dusted in Safe + Fair's signature top nine allergen-free onion and garlic spice blend. These savory pretzels promise to tantalize taste buds and add a deliciously crunchy element to JetBlue's onboard snack lineup. Both of these exciting new snack options will join JetBlue's current roster of complimentary onboard offerings, including favorites like Popchips Sea Salt and Chifles Plantain Chips.

Refreshing New Libations

JetBlue proudly introduces ALB Vodka to its lineup of onboard liquor options, celebrating another outstanding New York-based brand. Hailing from its namesake city of Albany, New York, ALB Vodka is a gluten-free premium spirit crafted from 100 percent American corn, distilled with water from upstate that’s undergone quadruple charcoal filtration.?

Along with its new onboard liquor option, JetBlue is also bringing aboard new cocktail mixers fromOwen’s Craft Mixers, available for purchase on all flights in Core cabins and complimentary in Mint. Using new seatback menus with mixing instructions, JetBlue passengers can create their own refreshing cocktails, like the Runway ‘Rita with Owen’s Sparkling Margarita Mix or a Mile-High Lemonade with Owen’s Classic Lemonade, offering a taste of summer at 30,000 feet.

Sample Summer Flavors

For passengers flying in JetBlue's luxurious Mint cabin, a culinary journey awaits courtesy of NYC-based restaurant Legacy Records. Breakfast options include strawberries drizzled in black pepper syrup, and basil paired with quinoa pancakes with blueberry compote, or a ricotta crepe with hazelnut and caramel. For lunch or dinner, transatlantic customers can savor new options like sausage pasty with pomodoro sauce and Parmigiano, or chilled pea soup with mint oil and puffed wild rice, or chicken Milanese with mustard greens and lemon. Meanwhile, domestic travelers can indulge in delectable dinner options like flat iron steak with roasted fennel and Tuscan breadcrumbs, burrata with roasted rhubarb, arugula and crostini, or shrimp with smoked paprika aioli and garlic breadcrumbs.

Simultaneously, flyer-favoriteDIG serves up summer-inspired, farm-to-tray delights for JetBlue's transatlantic Core passengers, offering breakfast delights like pancakes with maple syrup and roasted peaches, frittata with roasted zucchini and tomatoes, or chocolate chia pudding with toasted coconut and raspberries. Lunch and dinner will see the rollout of new options like a char chicken and lemon herb spring farro, or harissa aioli cauliflower and herb lentils, paired with such mouth-watering sides as sugar snap peas with mint pesto, and feta and citrus fennel salad with sunflower seeds.

Blueprint by JetBlue

JetBlue’s recently announced personalized inflight experience platform, dubbed Blueprint, has officially landed, providing more customizability throughout passengers’ air journey. Available on state-of-the-art seatback screens, Blueprint does more than provide fresh new entertainment options, including watch party capability for up to six customers at a time. It also gives travelers to access information regarding their JetBlue connecting flights and gates right at their seat, enables them to order meals directly from the screen, and allows them to pick up where they left off in their movie or TV show from one flight to the next.? Screenings in the Sky

Film enthusiasts can rejoice as JetBlue unveils its ‘A24 Collection’ of major award-winning and -nominated films from acclaimed entertainment studio A24. Starting on May 1st, passengers can immerse themselves in the artful storytelling of films like Everything Everywhere All At Once and The Farewell, or enjoy the humor found in The Disaster Artist and Dream Scenario.?

Additionally, starting on June 1st, JetBlue will become the first airline to launch a dedicated channel of the internet's hottest interview show, ‘Hot Ones’, to the sky. Hosted by Sean Evans and featuring celebrity guests like Margot Robbie, Jennifer Lawrence, Will Ferrell, Pedro Pascal, and Gordon Ramsay, ‘Hot Ones’ promises to deliver entertaining and spicy interviews that will keep passengers thoroughly entertained throughout their flight.

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Laurie Baratti

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Laurie Baratti is an Assistant Editor for TravelPulse. She is a San Diego-based journalist whose work has previously appeared in publications like TravelAge West, SPACE, Modern Home + Living, Montage, and Sandals Life magazines. Travel writing has long been her passion, and she is always looking for excuses to explore the world outside of her native California. Laurie is also a lifelong equestrian, a proud pet-parent, and an underground advocate of the Oxford comma.