JetBlue Airways - Fleet

Fleet

As of November 2012, the JetBlue Airways fleet consists of the following aircraft with an average age of 7.4 years:

Nearly every plane in JetBlue's fleet is named with a designation containing some form of the word "blue." However as of September 2012, there are four exceptions: tail number N190JB is "Luiz F. Kahl" named for the former Chairman of the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority, and tail number N316JB is "Usto Schulz" named for JetBlue's former VP of Safety. Tail number N605JB, (formerly "Blue Yorker") the Boston Red Sox themed aircraft does not have an official name but instead displays the Fenway Park 100th Anniversary logo. One of JetBlue's other sports themed aircraft is tail number N746JB (formerly "Some Like It Blue"). This aircraft bears the New York Jets logo and carries an "I Love New York/ JetBlue" logo combination marked with the words "New York's Hometown Airline" instead of a name.

The only plane that has not been named by a JetBlue employee is tail number N655JB, "Blue 100," which was named by the company in celebration for JetBlue's 100th Airbus A320. Also, the plane has its own original tail fin. Also, tail number N658JB was named " Whoo-Hoo JetBlue! The Official Airline of Springfield " in celebration of the release of The Simpsons Movie. The plane also features Homer Simpson giving a thumbs up.

Some long-term maintenance on JetBlue's Airbus A320 aircraft is conducted at Aeroman, a facility in El Salvador owned by Aveos Fleet Performance Inc.. JetBlue also used Aveos's facilities in Winnipeg, Canada until 2007, along with Empire Aero Center in Rome, NY.

In December 2006, JetBlue announced it would remove one more row of seats from each A320, reducing the number of seats per A320 to 150. The airline also revealed that on each A320 it would adjust the remaining rows in the forward half of the cabin, increasing the seat pitch to 38 inches (97 cm), these seats were called even more legroom seats and are now called even more space seats. Fleet modifications have been completed as of February 8, 2007 (2007 -02-08).

At present, the A320 has a seat pitch of 38 inches (97 cm) in rows 2–5,10 and 11 (Exit rows), these are even more space seats and 34 inches (86 cm) in all other rows. The E190 has a seat pitch of 32 inches (81 cm) in rows 1–10, and 33 inches (84 cm) in rows 13–25, with a pitch of 38 inches (97 cm) in the exit rows. Over the summer of 2012 the E190 fleet was repitched to create even more space seats in rows 1, 12-14. The seat pitch in rows 1 and 12 is 38 inches (97 cm) and rows 13-14 is 39 inches (99 cm).