With JetBlue's new rolling 331-day schedule, February break (President's Day week) 2022 flights are starting to become available. My family is hoping to fly to Orlando on Monday 2/21, so I've been checking the prices (currently available through Saturday, 2/19) to get a feel for what we might have to pay and noticed something interesting. Whether it's a glitch or a predatory pricing practice to try and take advantage of families on school breaks who are trying to book at the first possible moment, I don't know, but the prices were consistently inflated for parties of 2 or more for the first few hours that any "new" flight appeared on the schedule.
For example, if I searched the one-way, nonstop MCO-SYR flight on 2/19 on the morning it first became available, the standard ("Blue") fare for 1 person was $150 and the fare for 2 or more was $548 PER PERSON. However, if I simply I waited a few hours until later in the day, the "Blue" fare for parties of any size was now around $208 per person, even with a few seats now having been booked. (I've done this for several days now, with the same result: each new flight is offered at prices 2-3 times higher for parties of 2 or more for the first few hours, and then the fare abruptly drops to about 1/3 of the initial price.)
Bottom Line: If you're looking for flights for your family on JetBlue and the numbers seem staggering for a newly-released fare, try waiting a few hours and rechecking the price.
UPDATE: I was able to book our 2/21 SYR-MCO flights on Saturday, 3/27. The flight did not appear on the schedule until about 5am, and at a price of over $548 per person (around 40,000 points) for the "Blue" fare. I checked back every hour. By 10:30am, the "Blue" fare price had dropped to $244 per person (or 17,900 points). Ditto for the flights on 2/22 and 2/23, which were offered with the "Blue" fare set at $548 initially (with Blue Basic listed as sold out) on the mornings they became available, and were each dropped after a few hours to $208 (with a Blue Basic fare of $178 suddenly very much available).
For example, if I searched the one-way, nonstop MCO-SYR flight on 2/19 on the morning it first became available, the standard ("Blue") fare for 1 person was $150 and the fare for 2 or more was $548 PER PERSON. However, if I simply I waited a few hours until later in the day, the "Blue" fare for parties of any size was now around $208 per person, even with a few seats now having been booked. (I've done this for several days now, with the same result: each new flight is offered at prices 2-3 times higher for parties of 2 or more for the first few hours, and then the fare abruptly drops to about 1/3 of the initial price.)
Bottom Line: If you're looking for flights for your family on JetBlue and the numbers seem staggering for a newly-released fare, try waiting a few hours and rechecking the price.
UPDATE: I was able to book our 2/21 SYR-MCO flights on Saturday, 3/27. The flight did not appear on the schedule until about 5am, and at a price of over $548 per person (around 40,000 points) for the "Blue" fare. I checked back every hour. By 10:30am, the "Blue" fare price had dropped to $244 per person (or 17,900 points). Ditto for the flights on 2/22 and 2/23, which were offered with the "Blue" fare set at $548 initially (with Blue Basic listed as sold out) on the mornings they became available, and were each dropped after a few hours to $208 (with a Blue Basic fare of $178 suddenly very much available).
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