9/24/2023 0 Comments A321 mint jetblueHand-signed greeting card welcoming me to the JetBlue Mint experience. Greeting me at the seat was a hand-signed welcome card, eye shades, and a thick duvet. Seat 4F (a single-seat suite) and it’s all mine for the next 5 and half hours. Would the Mint product meet the high expectations that had been swimming around in my head for the last several years? Time to find out… My first impressions of the JetBlue Mint seat There she is. ![]() I wasn’t really complaining all that much though, as my spirits were high as I walked down that jet bridge to board the flight. No lounges means waiting at the gate! Moments before they kicked off the boarding process. This is the ground experience for the JetBlue Mint product. Even though I was holding a ticket for one of the best premium transcon seats in the market today, I had nowhere to go to escape the chaos of the main terminal.Ĭompare that with the really nice lounges that both Delta and American offer as part of their premium transcon experience, and JetBlue really comes up short here. While waiting in the gate area for the flight to board, I couldn’t help but to think that jetBlue is in desperate need of a proper lounge here at JFK. Checking to make sure I got all the pics and video I needed for this trip report! N934JB (“The Ultamint Experience”) pulling up to the gate – a bit late, but it was good to see it nonetheless. There were some “pockets” of cool scattered about though – these retro-looking relaxation pods seemed inviting. As you can see, T5 is relatively sterile (surprising considering how stylish of a brand JetBlue is). Now that’s my kind of sculpture! I guess I never realized how big those v2500 engines really are, but standing next to one here in the terminal really puts it into perspective. ![]() This was my first time inside T5 at JFK – the center section is nice, but the gate areas aren’t as interesting. Especially when they delayed the flight another 20 minutes just about 10 minutes before boarding was supposed to start. I’m not sure I would go as far as to call these pics “juicy” (T5 at JFK isn’t THAT interesting) but I definitely had the time to get the pics I needed. That meant wandering the airport, walking up and down the terminal, checking things out, and making sure I had a lot of juicy content for this trip report. Inside Terminal 5 at JFKĭespite the short delay getting through security, I still had quite a bit of time to kill before the flight was scheduled to board. Not too bad at all, though I was a bit disgruntled when I reached the front of the line and I noticed that there was a separate (and much shorter) line for premium passengers such as myself. ![]() Luckily the security checkpoint line moved quickly, and it only took about 20 minutes to make it to the scanner. JetBlue check in counters and baggage drop T5 JFK. Home of jetBlue! Standing curbside at terminal 5 moments before walking in and joining the masses. I’m not even kidding when I say the place was a zoo – I really wasn’t expecting the airport to be that busy so early in the morning, so it was quite a shock to see wall-to-wall passengers and a massive queue (which snaked all around the terminal) for the security checkpoint. So even though my flight wasn’t scheduled to depart until 8:40am, I found myself standing in the middle of the zoo that is the T5 departures hall at 6:20am. Writing these trip reports (and making videos) takes a lot of time and I always like to arrive at the airport with plenty of time to spare in order to get all the content I need to make things interesting. The taxi ride from midtown Manhattan to JFK was super quick this morning, just as I had hoped. If you want to see more videos like this, be sure to visit my YouTube channel. The videoīefore I begin with the written trip report, the following is a quick video that I put together which summarizes my experience. Seat: 4F (Mint / business class) JetBlue A321 (N934JB) side view illustration by Our route from JFK to LAX today as B6223. New York, NY (JFK) – Los Angeles, CA (LAX) So when I found myself with an itinerary that required getting from New York back to San Diego (in any way possible), I jumped at the chance to give this a try. However, I’ve heard nothing but rave reviews about JetBlue’s A321 Mint ( premium transcon) service and I’ve been desperately trying to find excuses over the past several years to try it out for myself. Of course I had tons of fun being wined and dined in British Airways Club World and Virgin Atlantic Upper Class. You can read my full review of the newest JetBlue Mint seat to see what’s it’s like these days.Īs strange as it may sound, this JetBlue flight from New York to Los Angeles was the flight I was looking forward to the most on this trip. ![]() Quick note: this is a review of the old JetBlue Mint product from 2016.
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