JetBlue CEO Joanna Geraghty was spotted onboard a flight from Boston to Fort Lauderdale doing \u201cSeat Bingo,\u201d giving away free tickets. The video is going viral, but best I can tell it\u2019s recycled, though I did not see it the first time around in March of last year.\n<\/p>\n
Three passengers won: seats 21D, 16E, and 10E. Two were in E middle seats, so Geraghty jokes \u201cthe middles have it today.\u201d<\/p>\n
Before initial descent, I\u2019ll come back up here. We\u2019ll play something called Seat Bingo, and three lucky customers will win a free ticket on JetBlue. So sit back, relax, enjoy the JetBlue experience down in Fort Lauderdale, and thanks again for flying.<\/p>\n
Okay, so we\u2019re going to do our free-ticket giveaway. We do something up here called Seat Bingo. I have a random number picker, and I\u2019m going to pick a letter and a number. Whoever is in that seat \u2014 so if I pick A and 25, 25A would be the winner \u2014 that person\u2019s going to win a free ticket on JetBlue, anywhere we go.<\/p>\n
A couple quick rules. If you\u2019re flying non-revenue \u2014 so if you\u2019re another airline crew member or one of ours \u2014 you\u2019re not eligible, sorry. And if you switched seats with somebody, it\u2019s the person seated in the seat \u2014 so not the boarding pass, but whoever\u2019s in that seat \u2014 who would win. We\u2019re not going to have any boarding-pass battles at 30,000 feet.<\/p>\n
She\u2019s actually done this on other flights, too. In December 2024 flying New York LaGuardia to Orlando three passengers won free tickets, and she joked<\/a> about a last-row middle seat being \u201cthe most desirable seat on the aircraft\u201d because it was \u201cright in front of the bathroom.\u201d<\/p>\n And it\u2019s kind of a JetBlue thing. Previous CEO Robin Hayes was reported doing similar contests<\/a> giving away free tickets via seat bingo, returning to his economy seat, and helping collect trash. And there\u2019s even a suggestion that<\/a> former CEO Dave Barger did this as well.<\/p>\n JetBlue is still pretty good in the air, a bit of a mess on the ground, and this doesn\u2019t fix what ails the airline but I still like it quite a lot. So I\u2019m glad that this video is making the rounds again, since I missed it the first time. But whenever I see something going viral I can\u2019t trust my memory alone for whether it\u2019s truly \u2018new\u2019.<\/p>\n \n\tMore From View from the Wing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JetBlue CEO Joanna Geraghty was spotted onboard a flight from Boston to Fort Lauderdale doing \u201cSeat Bingo,\u201d giving…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250,3014],"class_list":["post-283174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-jetblue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}