Jetblue customers can be happy, perhaps with a hint of nostalgia. The airline said goodbye to its smaller and outdated aircraft fleet.
With a brief flight on Tuesday from New York to Boston, the carrier officially marked the withdrawal of his Embraer 190, the 100 -seat regional plane that had been a basic element of his coastal service is for two decades.
It is the first plane that Jetblue has completely eliminated in his quarter of a century of flying.
It was also a time, species machine. The passengers who approached obtained an instant setback to the 2000s, with screens inherited in each seat. On board Tuesday’s flight to document the retirement of the plane, I could almost listen to ESPN’s thematic music from the beginning of the century that would have been blown through my headphones during any Jetblue flight in the late 2000s.
But in 2025, the E190 cabin no longer evoked the Vibrates of “Cheap Chic” that defined the rise of Jetblue At the beginning of the century, or the modern aesthetics that is aboard its newer planes.
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Backup screen in a Jetblue Embraer 190. Let Cudahy/The Points Guy
A 20 -year race for Jetblue’s smallest plane
Jetblue launched the service in the E190 20 years ago, becoming the first airline to fly the then new plane of the Brazilian planner and, in the process, perhaps debuting the best economy experience offered by any US airline in a regional plane.
The plane also became a key piece of the Jetblue network.
Six years ago, the carrier operated more than 120,000 flights with the plane, according to data from the Cirium Aviation Analysis firm, even when Jetblue received newer and much more modern aircraft with touch screens and Lie seats.
Last year, Jetblue executives confirmed the summer of 2025 It would mark the end of the E190 race.
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And the official end came Tuesday, but not without a small sentimentality.
The members of the flight crew and the cabin signed a banner that commemorates the end of an airplane that transported millions of passengers for almost two decades, especially inside and outside the center of the Boston Logan Logan (BOS) International Airport of Jetblue, where the leaders say it was integral to unlock new destinations for the airline.
“The E190 gave us something incredible: the ability to grow with flexibility and new destinations,” said CEO Joanna Geraghty, speaking Tuesday in New York. “He gave us Boston.”
JetBlue E190 Retirement Flight
Boston, therefore, marked a final destination suitable for the plane, which was filled with Jetblue dignitaries for the final flight of John F. Kennedy to the International Airport (JFK).
“A really special flight,” said Captain Warren Christie, director of Operations at Jetblue, who tested Tuesday’s flight, celebrating both the withdrawal of the aircraft and his own flight race.
Flight B6 190 offered many reminders of why Jetblue is moving from this plane, from aged entertainment systems to older and Wi-Fi seats on board that did not work during the flight.
There is also a matter of containers, too small for the bags of many travelers in 2025: “We will have many door controls,” I heard an agent say with practice (and, I detected, a touch of nostalgia).
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Even so, it was a historical moment. And Jetblue celebrated with commemorative chips in each seat. The passengers responded in kind with applause, both in takeoff and in landing, which occurred after just over half an hour to fly time in a blue sky.
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On the floor in New England, Jetblue employees and many passengers (this included) had the opportunity to leave the plane, collect a permanent score and sign the fuselage of the plane.
Advancing at the bottom, a door on: a Jetblue Airbus A220, the 140 -seat plane much more modern and efficient in fuel than the carrier sees as the worthy successor of the E190.
“It is a better customer experience than 190,” said Jetblue president Marty St. George, about A220 in Logan on Tuesday. “It’s not that 190 was bad. We were really good, very good. So it will only be better for our customers.”
Jetblue will continue to complement the A220 with its A320 and A321 lar Latest generation mint suites in advance.
The planes that do not have mint today will be online to equip with the new National First Class Reclinators from 2026.
Meanwhile, this E190 will go to the Arizona desert on Wednesday.
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