The Value Airline's Newly Constructed Efficient and Customer-Friendly Home Reawakens Icon of New York Aviation History

NEW YORK, Sept. 22, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- JetBlue Airways (Nasdaq:JBLU) today celebrates the airline's new home at John F. Kennedy International Airport -- the newly constructed Terminal 5. Elected officials, representatives from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, business partners, and invited guests join JetBlue executives and crewmembers to inaugurate a new aviation icon. The celebration includes an appearance by the world-famous Radio City Rockettes. Television personality and food and wine connoisseur Ted Allen hosts a "Taste of T5" celebrating the terminal's 22 concessions, created by OTG Management, and the wide variety of 25 retail outlets.

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Celebrating the iconic Eero Saarinen-designed TWA terminal to which the new T5 is linked, a 1937 Lockheed 12A Electra, the oldest flying TWA aircraft, is available for guests to view during the event. The Electra traveled from California via the original route of TWA's first coast-to-coast passenger service trip. In addition, the TWA Clipped Wings, an organization of former TWA flight attendants, will present a fashion show of vintage TWA uniforms.

Other event celebrations include special demonstrations by JetBlue's airline partners Lufthansa, Aer Lingus and Cape Air. The terminal's efficient and customer-friendly design will be on display for all to see. Special areas such as the East Concourse lounge with Moroso-designed furniture, which offers panoramic vistas of aircraft movements on taxiways and runways, are available for the terminal's first guests.

"Eero Saarinen's Terminal 5 is recognized as an icon of aviation history in New York and beyond," said Dave Barger, CEO of JetBlue Airways. "As New York's hometown airline, we are proud to literally connect the new Terminal 5 to our shared aviation architectural history in Saarinen's TWA Flight Center. Our new home will bring the best of the JetBlue Experience from the air to the ground. More customers passing through JFK travel on JetBlue than any other airline, which is quite an achievement since the airline launched just over eight years ago. We will now be able to offer our customers amenities, comfort and an experience befitting a top-rated customer service company."

"Today is an historic day for all of New York," said Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY). "JetBlue has brought a national landmark back to life and put it at the epicenter of air transportation here in New York and for the entire world. Terminal 5 will give New Yorkers the state-of-the-art air travel hub we need and deserve. I am grateful to JetBlue who has in word and in deed followed through on its commitment to New York and to ensuring that all New Yorkers, upstate and down, have low-cost travel options. I look forward to continuing to watch JetBlue thrive and grow here in New York and will do everything I can to make sure New York's air transportation system is as safe, affordable, and efficient as possible."

"JetBlue's new terminal represents a major investment in New York City and is a tremendous vote of confidence in our future," said Mayor Bloomberg.