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JETBLUE APPLIES FOR SLOT EXEMPTIONS AT

NEW YORK’S LAGUARDIA AIRPORT



-- Low-Fare Carrier Seeks 10 Slot Exemptions to Commence

Service from 2nd NYC Airport --





New York, NY (January 21, 2004) - JetBlue Airways [Nasdaq: JBLU] has filed an application with the U.S. Department of Transportation requesting ten slot exemptions to commence service from New York’s LaGuardia Airport in Spring 2004.



Just four years old, the low-fare carrier is already the largest airline, in terms of passengers carried, at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, currently operating 83 daily departures to 19 cities. Cities and schedules served from LaGuardia will be announced later this winter.



“As New York’s hometown airline, JetBlue’s planned LaGuardia service will allow us to introduce our brand of service to new customers who prefer to fly from LaGuardia,†said David Neeleman, JetBlue’s Chairman and CEO. “It doesn’t change our growth plans for JFK where we will continue to add more flights to more cities and are working towards construction of a new terminal and a new hangar. But it does give our customers another option when they choose to fly JetBlue.â€



JetBlue is a low-fare, low-cost passenger airline, which provides high-quality customer service. JetBlue operates a fleet of 55 new Airbus A320 aircraft and plans to add another 14 A320s to its fleet in 2004. The airline has on order 100 EMBRAER 190 aircraft with options for an additional 100 with deliveries scheduled to begin in mid 2005. All JetBlue aircraft feature roomy all-leather seats each equipped with free live satellite television, offering up to 24 channels of DIRECTV® Programming at every seat.* JetBlue has been named “Best Domestic Airline†for the last two years by the readers of Conde Nast Traveler magazine.



Based out of New York City’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, JetBlue currently operates 220 flights a day and serves 22 destinations in 11 states and Puerto Rico with plans to commence daily nonstop service on March 3 between New York’s JFK and Sacramento, CA. With JetBlue, all seats are assigned, all travel is ticketless, all fares are one-way, and a Saturday night stay is never required. For more information, schedules and fares, please visit www.jetblue.com or call JetBlue reservations at 1-800-JETBLUE (538-2583). This press release, as well as past press releases, can be found on www.jetblue.com.