N757ST wrote:

B6JFKH81 wrote:

SXDFC wrote:

Apologies if this is a bit off topic, however how come the registrations go off in all random orders, and not consecutive order?

Not really random:
N5##JB -N6##JB: A320 CLASSIC
(Aircraft that were sold to BlueWings and came back came as JL/JT)

N7##JB-N8##JB: A320 ENHANCED
These delivered with the enhanced interior and Recaro seats.

N9##J@: A321 CEOs

N2###J: A321NEO

N4###J: A321NEOLR

N1##JB-N3##JB: E190

N3###J: A220

It's not easy getting blocks of registration numbers when you purchase a large number of aircraft at a clip. Your airline is no different, trying to have fleet sub types with common ranges of tail numbers (-700s, -800s and MAX8s).

Umm… Isn’t an a320 enhanced known by its avionics change? CRT to LCD and change in hydraulic braking logic? If so, 590Jb-834jb are enhanced. The 700/800 had the recaro seats, but otherwise internally aren’t they identical to the 6xx series, with the obvious exception of the winglet equipped 8XX series?

Airbus also had an “enhanced interior” for the A320, that was available starting sometime in 2007. The changes to the interior were pretty subtle though (it wasn’t like original 737NG interior-> sky interior for example). Basically things like slightly different sidewalls/window surrounds.

SXDFC wrote:

B6JFKH81 wrote:

SXDFC wrote:

Apologies if this is a bit off topic, however how come the registrations go off in all random orders, and not consecutive order?

Not really random:
N5##JB -N6##JB: A320 CLASSIC
(Aircraft that were sold to BlueWings and came back came as JL/JT)

N7##JB-N8##JB: A320 ENHANCED
These delivered with the enhanced interior and Recaro seats.

N9##J@: A321 CEOs

N2###J: A321NEO

N4###J: A321NEOLR

N1##JB-N3##JB: E190

N3###J: A220

It's not easy getting blocks of registration numbers when you purchase a large number of aircraft at a clip. Your airline is no different, trying to have fleet sub types with common ranges of tail numbers (-700s, -800s and MAX8s).

What I mean is with our MAXs, they go in consecutive order, with a random letter.

N8730, N8731,N8732,etc

With B6 I noticed it’s

N903JB, N905JB, N913JB, N923JB. Are all the four digit registrations going to have a “J” at the end?

Just putting in random inquiries, it looks like the preferred "JB" was already taken and whoever makes the decision of what tail #s to accept different letters didn't take them (although some do have different letters...like N999JQ which I guess they went through with to avoid doing another tail number series to finish up the A321CEOs.). Based on the number of a/c on order compared to the number of tail numbers available in the range, they had wiggle room to get a lot of the registrations they wanted with the "JB". Here are a few examples:

N904JB: https://registry.faa.gov/AircraftInquir ... rTxt=904JB
N912JB: https://registry.faa.gov/AircraftInquir ... rTxt=912JB
N920JB: https://registry.faa.gov/AircraftInquir ... rTxt=920JB

Hell, in college I flew a C152 with tail N757AA...you would think that would be a B757 in American Airline's fleet but nope LOL. Looking at the registry it is still active, just not with the college anymore:

https://registry.faa.gov/AircraftInquir ... rTxt=757AA

N757ST wrote:

B6JFKH81 wrote:

SXDFC wrote:

Apologies if this is a bit off topic, however how come the registrations go off in all random orders, and not consecutive order?

Not really random:
N5##JB -N6##JB: A320 CLASSIC
(Aircraft that were sold to BlueWings and came back came as JL/JT)

N7##JB-N8##JB: A320 ENHANCED
These delivered with the enhanced interior and Recaro seats.

N9##J@: A321 CEOs

N2###J: A321NEO

N4###J: A321NEOLR

N1##JB-N3##JB: E190

N3###J: A220

It's not easy getting blocks of registration numbers when you purchase a large number of aircraft at a clip. Your airline is no different, trying to have fleet sub types with common ranges of tail numbers (-700s, -800s and MAX8s).

Umm… Isn’t an a320 enhanced known by its avionics change? CRT to LCD and change in hydraulic braking logic? If so, 590Jb-834jb are enhanced. The 700/800 had the recaro seats, but otherwise internally aren’t they identical to the 6xx series, with the obvious exception of the winglet equipped 8XX series?

Ummmm....not at JetBlue. There are technical enhancements made to aircraft all the time, lord knows how many SBs I have worked on and seen installed over the years, and I'm sure there there was some type of upgrade package from the factory, but in JetBlue an A320E was a 700/800 which contained the Enhanced Interior.

N635JB is re-scheduled to depart SAL this afternoon with Phase 2 installed.
N657JB has started its modification and should release around 12/5 give-or-take.

We have a few aircraft that were released from the desert here (will not receive the modification) to go through HMVs before entering operations, once they leave we'll get back to ramping up the mod lines to finish the scheduled aircraft. N504JB, N505JB and N506JB are all here and will be on the ground here for quite some time. N821JB is expected to arrive here in a few days when we kick out N523JB (also came from the desert).

So, looking at the rest of the year it looks like the inbound planes will be:
N657JB
N821JB
N804JB
N633JB
N662JB

It'll be a busy holiday season here in SAL!

Phase 1; 20/20 100% Complete
646JB-Complete-Bravo Lima Uniform Echo
568JB-Complete-Blue Sapphire
570JB-Complete-Devil With A Blue Dress On
556JB-Complete-Betty Blue
571JB-Complete-Blue Monday
621JB-Complete-Do Be Do Be Blue
579JB-Complete-Can’t Stop Lovin’ Blue
580JB-Complete-Mo’ Better Blue
627JB-Complete-A Friend Like Blue
529JB-Complete-Ole Blue Eyes
632JB-Complete-Bear Force One (Boston Bruins)
629JB-Complete-Bright Light, Blue City
653JB-Complete-Breath of Fresh Blue
510JB-Complete-Out Of The Blue
595JB-Complete-Lucky Blue (Boston Celtics)
558JB-Complete-Song Sung Blue
641JB-Complete-Blue Come Back Now Ya Hear?
634JB-Complete-B*L*U*E
534JB-Complete-Bada Bing, Bada Blue
598JB-Complete-Bluemanity

Phase 2; 90/110 81% Complete
90/99 90%*

729JB-Complete-If You Can Read This, You’re Blue Close
763JB-Complete-What’s Old is Blue Again (Retrojet)
591JB-Complete-Tail Of Blue Cities
766JB-Complete-Etay Luebay
594JB-Complete-Whole Lotta Blue
760JB-Complete-The Blues Were Made For Flying
552JB-Complete-Blue Jay
605JB-Complete-Boston Red Sox
644JB-Complete-Blue Loves Ya Baby
527JL-Complete-Blue Bayou
564JB-Complete-Absolute Blue
768JB-Complete-Blue Crew
643JB-Complete-Blue Jersey
586JB-Complete-I <3 Blue York
607JB-Complete-Beantown Blue
561JB-Complete-La Vie En Blue
775JB-Complete-Vets in Blue
563JB-Complete-Blue Chip
606JB-Complete-Idlewild Blue
779JB-Complete-Bluericua
665JB-Complete-Something About Blue
583JB-Complete-Bluesville
585JB-Complete-I Got Blue Babe
636JB-Complete-All Wrapped Up In Blue
796JB-Complete-100% Blue
651JB-Complete-I’m Having A Blue Moment
649JB-Complete-Fancy Meeting Blue Here
827JB-Complete-It Takes Blue to Tango (WL)
705JB-Complete-Big Blue People Seater
612JB-Complete-Blue Look Maahvelous
652JB-Complete-Out With Old In With The Blue
531JL-Complete-Blue Finest (NYPD paint)
565JB-Complete-Bippity Boppity Blue
547JB-Complete-Forever Blue
608JB-Complete-...And Along Came Blue
615JB-Complete-Blue Bravest (NYFD paint)
805JB-Complete-You Had Me At Blue (WL)
569JB-Complete-Blues Brothers
648JB-Complete-Hasta La Vista (Vacations Special 1 of 3)
554JB-Complete-Sacre’ Bleu!
507JT-Complete-Blue Crew (Oldest 320 so far)
508JL-Complete-May The Force Be With Blue
587JB-Complete-Blue Kid In Town
618JB-Complete-Can’t Get Enough Of Blue
526JL-Complete-Blues Just Want To Have Fun
655JB-Complete-Blue 100
623JB-Complete-Playa-Way With Me (Vacations Special 2 of 3)
708JB-Complete-All That And A Bag Of Blue Chips (WL)
789JB-Complete-What’s Blue And Flies All Over?
784JB-Complete-Blue Infinity And Beyond!
588JB-Complete-Hopelessly Devoted To Blue
589JB-Complete-Blue Skies Ahead
590JB-Complete-Liberty Blue
645JB-Complete-Blues Have More Fun
613JB-Complete-Bahama Blue
603JB-Complete-To Beach Their Own(Vacations paint 3 of 3)
746JB-Complete-Go Jets! (New York Jets Special)
793JB-Complete-My Other Ride Is a JetBlue E190
663JB-Complete-Paint the Town Blue
562JB-Complete-The Name Is Blue, JetBlue
592JB-Complete-American Blue
656JB-Complete-California Blue
509JB-Complete-True Blue
535JB-Complete-Estrella Azul
834JB-Complete-Keep Blue and Carry On(WL)(Youngest 320)
828JB-Complete-It Takes Blue to Tango (WL)
640JB-Complete-Blue Better Believe It
597JB-Complete-For The Love Of Blue
566JB-Complete-Blue Suede Shoes
537JT-Complete-Red, White & Blue
703JB-Complete-It’s up to blue, New York, New York
625JB-Complete-CompanyBlue
624JB-Complete-Blue-T-Ful
593JB-Complete-American Blue
706JB-Complete-As Blue As It Gets
794JB-Complete-Shantay, Blue Stay
630JB-Complete-Honk If You Love Blue
809JB-Complete-JetBlue For Good (WL)
637JB-Complete-Big Blue Bus
639JB-Complete-A Little Blue Will Do
807JB-Complete-1. Fly jetBlue 2. Repeat step 1 (WL)
715JB-Complete-How’s My Flying? Call 1-800-jetBlue (WL)
709JB-Complete-Blue (in binary code) (WL)
599JB-Complete-If the Blue Fits
661JB-Complete-Let The Blue Times Roll
659JB-Complete-Simply Blue
712JB-Complete-Enough About Me…Let’s Talk About Blue
638JB-Complete-Blue Begins With You
658JB-Complete-Woo-Hoo JetBlue
635JB-Complete-All Because of Blue
657JB-In Progress-Ferried MZJ-SAL 11-3
504JB-RTS-Ferried MZJ-SAL 10-4
505JB-RTS-Ferried MZJ-SAL 10-17
506JB-RTS-Ferried MZJ-SAL 11-5
Total Complete: 110/130 84%
110/119 92%**

(WL)= Plane is equipped with Sharklets. Sharklet mods are not happening with no plans to restart it.

Note: * and ** Both reflect the totals with the 11 planes taken out that as of now will not be getting the refurbished.
Those tails are believed to be 503-506, 516,517,519,520,521,523 and 524.

RTS= Return to service

FARmd90 wrote:

Phase 1; 20/20 100% Complete
646JB-Complete-Bravo Lima Uniform Echo
568JB-Complete-Blue Sapphire
570JB-Complete-Devil With A Blue Dress On
556JB-Complete-Betty Blue
571JB-Complete-Blue Monday
621JB-Complete-Do Be Do Be Blue
579JB-Complete-Can’t Stop Lovin’ Blue
580JB-Complete-Mo’ Better Blue
627JB-Complete-A Friend Like Blue
529JB-Complete-Ole Blue Eyes
632JB-Complete-Bear Force One (Boston Bruins)
629JB-Complete-Bright Light, Blue City
653JB-Complete-Breath of Fresh Blue
510JB-Complete-Out Of The Blue
595JB-Complete-Lucky Blue (Boston Celtics)
558JB-Complete-Song Sung Blue
641JB-Complete-Blue Come Back Now Ya Hear?
634JB-Complete-B*L*U*E
534JB-Complete-Bada Bing, Bada Blue
598JB-Complete-Bluemanity

Phase 2; 90/110 81% Complete
90/99 90%*

729JB-Complete-If You Can Read This, You’re Blue Close
763JB-Complete-What’s Old is Blue Again (Retrojet)
591JB-Complete-Tail Of Blue Cities
766JB-Complete-Etay Luebay
594JB-Complete-Whole Lotta Blue
760JB-Complete-The Blues Were Made For Flying
552JB-Complete-Blue Jay
605JB-Complete-Boston Red Sox
644JB-Complete-Blue Loves Ya Baby
527JL-Complete-Blue Bayou
564JB-Complete-Absolute Blue
768JB-Complete-Blue Crew
643JB-Complete-Blue Jersey
586JB-Complete-I <3 Blue York
607JB-Complete-Beantown Blue
561JB-Complete-La Vie En Blue
775JB-Complete-Vets in Blue
563JB-Complete-Blue Chip
606JB-Complete-Idlewild Blue
779JB-Complete-Bluericua
665JB-Complete-Something About Blue
583JB-Complete-Bluesville
585JB-Complete-I Got Blue Babe
636JB-Complete-All Wrapped Up In Blue
796JB-Complete-100% Blue
651JB-Complete-I’m Having A Blue Moment
649JB-Complete-Fancy Meeting Blue Here
827JB-Complete-It Takes Blue to Tango (WL)
705JB-Complete-Big Blue People Seater
612JB-Complete-Blue Look Maahvelous
652JB-Complete-Out With Old In With The Blue
531JL-Complete-Blue Finest (NYPD paint)
565JB-Complete-Bippity Boppity Blue
547JB-Complete-Forever Blue
608JB-Complete-...And Along Came Blue
615JB-Complete-Blue Bravest (NYFD paint)
805JB-Complete-You Had Me At Blue (WL)
569JB-Complete-Blues Brothers
648JB-Complete-Hasta La Vista (Vacations Special 1 of 3)
554JB-Complete-Sacre’ Bleu!
507JT-Complete-Blue Crew (Oldest 320 so far)
508JL-Complete-May The Force Be With Blue
587JB-Complete-Blue Kid In Town
618JB-Complete-Can’t Get Enough Of Blue
526JL-Complete-Blues Just Want To Have Fun
655JB-Complete-Blue 100
623JB-Complete-Playa-Way With Me (Vacations Special 2 of 3)
708JB-Complete-All That And A Bag Of Blue Chips (WL)
789JB-Complete-What’s Blue And Flies All Over?
784JB-Complete-Blue Infinity And Beyond!
588JB-Complete-Hopelessly Devoted To Blue
589JB-Complete-Blue Skies Ahead
590JB-Complete-Liberty Blue
645JB-Complete-Blues Have More Fun
613JB-Complete-Bahama Blue
603JB-Complete-To Beach Their Own(Vacations paint 3 of 3)
746JB-Complete-Go Jets! (New York Jets Special)
793JB-Complete-My Other Ride Is a JetBlue E190
663JB-Complete-Paint the Town Blue
562JB-Complete-The Name Is Blue, JetBlue
592JB-Complete-American Blue
656JB-Complete-California Blue
509JB-Complete-True Blue
535JB-Complete-Estrella Azul
834JB-Complete-Keep Blue and Carry On(WL)(Youngest 320)
828JB-Complete-It Takes Blue to Tango (WL)
640JB-Complete-Blue Better Believe It
597JB-Complete-For The Love Of Blue
566JB-Complete-Blue Suede Shoes
537JT-Complete-Red, White & Blue
703JB-Complete-It’s up to blue, New York, New York
625JB-Complete-CompanyBlue
624JB-Complete-Blue-T-Ful
593JB-Complete-American Blue
706JB-Complete-As Blue As It Gets
794JB-Complete-Shantay, Blue Stay
630JB-Complete-Honk If You Love Blue
809JB-Complete-JetBlue For Good (WL)
637JB-Complete-Big Blue Bus
639JB-Complete-A Little Blue Will Do
807JB-Complete-1. Fly jetBlue 2. Repeat step 1 (WL)
715JB-Complete-How’s My Flying? Call 1-800-jetBlue (WL)
709JB-Complete-Blue (in binary code) (WL)
599JB-Complete-If the Blue Fits
661JB-Complete-Let The Blue Times Roll
659JB-Complete-Simply Blue
712JB-Complete-Enough About Me…Let’s Talk About Blue
638JB-Complete-Blue Begins With You
658JB-Complete-Woo-Hoo JetBlue
635JB-Complete-All Because of Blue
657JB-In Progress-Ferried MZJ-SAL 11-3
504JB-RTS-Ferried MZJ-SAL 10-4
505JB-RTS-Ferried MZJ-SAL 10-17
506JB-RTS-Ferried MZJ-SAL 11-5
Total Complete: 110/130 84%
110/119 92%**

(WL)= Plane is equipped with Sharklets. Sharklet mods are not happening with no plans to restart it.

Note: * and ** Both reflect the totals with the 11 planes taken out that as of now will not be getting the refurbished.
Those tails are believed to be 503-506, 516,517,519,520,521,523 and 524.

RTS= Return to service

We're in the home stretch now! The following aircraft will head to SAL by the end of the year to wrap up the original batch of aircraft:

N657JB (in progress)
N821JB
N633JB
N804JB
N662JB

The three add-ons will head to SAL next year starting in January, completing one per month and will complete the modification:

N559JB
N536JB
N584JB

Amazing to see B6 in the home stretch of the 320 refurbish program!

Hopefully when the last 320 wraps up the refit program B6 will announce a new program for the 321CEOs and hopefully the 190s since they will be around longer. And also be in the financial position to freshen them up a bit since the first 321 was delivered in Oct of 2013 and is almost 10yrs old now.

Any idea how long before the first refurbished A320s retire? Just curious if this is giving any aircraft a service extension.

does anyone know whats the deal with the 11 a320's that are not getting the new cabin

FARmd90 wrote:

Amazing to see B6 in the home stretch of the 320 refurbish program!

Hopefully when the last 320 wraps up the refit program B6 will announce a new program for the 321CEOs and hopefully the 190s since they will be around longer. And also be in the financial position to freshen them up a bit since the first 321 was delivered in Oct of 2013 and is almost 10yrs old now.

I Don't think they need to do that as the Phase 1 seats on those planes are still perfectly fine. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSvtx0rg36c
The e190's on the other hand (at least the ones they're keeping for now) do need the upgrade the worst. Maybe they will retrofit the mint class in the A321CEO's as there losing their competitive advantage as united rolls the same seats that are on jetblues A321NEO/LR's out on their MAX10's and A321NEO
source: https:

https://community.infiniteflight.com/t/ ... 10s/407183


https://pointmetotheplane.boardingarea. ... ardingArea

Cardude2 wrote:

does anyone know whats the deal with the 11 a320's that are not getting the new cabin

They will fly around in the system as is until they are retired/returned to leasing companies which is think is 2023-2025.

N821JB arrived here in SAL yesterday to start the interior modification, N657JB is about a week away from departing. It is going to be a busy December for us down here!

N633JB is due to ferry from BOS to SAL this afternoon for interior mod:
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N633JB

N804JB is due to ferry from FLL to SAL on 12/6 for interior mod.

N657JB is wrapping up right now and should ferry from SAL to MCO on 12/5 after a test flight.

B6JFKH81 wrote:

N757ST wrote:

B6JFKH81 wrote:

Not really random:
N5##JB -N6##JB: A320 CLASSIC
(Aircraft that were sold to BlueWings and came back came as JL/JT)

N7##JB-N8##JB: A320 ENHANCED
These delivered with the enhanced interior and Recaro seats.

N9##J@: A321 CEOs

N2###J: A321NEO

N4###J: A321NEOLR

N1##JB-N3##JB: E190

N3###J: A220

It's not easy getting blocks of registration numbers when you purchase a large number of aircraft at a clip. Your airline is no different, trying to have fleet sub types with common ranges of tail numbers (-700s, -800s and MAX8s).

Umm… Isn’t an a320 enhanced known by its avionics change? CRT to LCD and change in hydraulic braking logic? If so, 590Jb-834jb are enhanced. The 700/800 had the recaro seats, but otherwise internally aren’t they identical to the 6xx series, with the obvious exception of the winglet equipped 8XX series?

Ummmm....not at JetBlue. There are technical enhancements made to aircraft all the time, lord knows how many SBs I have worked on and seen installed over the years, and I'm sure there there was some type of upgrade package from the factory, but in JetBlue an A320E was a 700/800 which contained the Enhanced Interior.

Yes, the 700/800’s had new interiors, and I know that airbus constantly upgrades the jet, but technically per airbus an “enhanced” a320 is the leap when they went from CRT->LCD and changed the hydraulic logic for nose wheel steering. I think 590JB was the first enhanced A320 jetblue received. It might be internal jetblue speak to refer to the recaro seated a320’s as enhanced, but there is actually an a320 enhanced. So 2 enhanced, a jetblue enhanced and an airbus enhanced.

N757ST wrote:

B6JFKH81 wrote:

N757ST wrote:

Yes, the 700/800’s had new interiors, and I know that airbus constantly upgrades the jet, but technically per airbus an “enhanced” a320 is the leap when they went from CRT->LCD and changed the hydraulic logic for nose wheel steering. I think 590JB was the first enhanced A320 jetblue received. It might be internal jetblue speak to refer to the recaro seated a320’s as enhanced, but there is actually an a320 enhanced. So 2 enhanced, a jetblue enhanced and an airbus enhanced.

Yes, I believe there were a few things with the nose wheel steering upgrades including the different ring in the NLG itself. When we did the re-pack with the new rings after N536JB had its incident in LAX, I think it was N503JB through N589JB so N590JB would make sense as the NLGs already came modified with the improved hardware to avoid another flight 292. Wow, that brings me WAY back! I want to say we did that modification in 2006? I know some folks that still have the plaque with the removed rings attached that were made/given out when that modification ended. My lord I'm getting old LOL!

N657JB left yesterday, N804JB arrived this morning. Currently in production:
>N633JB
>N804JB
>N821JB

How many more to go

Brianpr3 wrote:

How many more to go

4 more. 1 will get to SAL this month, then the last 3 will be done on a single nose to tail line so 1 plane per month January, February and March.

Phase 1; 20/20 100% Complete
646JB-Complete-Bravo Lima Uniform Echo
568JB-Complete-Blue Sapphire
570JB-Complete-Devil With A Blue Dress On
556JB-Complete-Betty Blue
571JB-Complete-Blue Monday
621JB-Complete-Do Be Do Be Blue
579JB-Complete-Can’t Stop Lovin’ Blue
580JB-Complete-Mo’ Better Blue
627JB-Complete-A Friend Like Blue
529JB-Complete-Ole Blue Eyes
632JB-Complete-Bear Force One (Boston Bruins)
629JB-Complete-Bright Light, Blue City
653JB-Complete-Breath of Fresh Blue
510JB-Complete-Out Of The Blue
595JB-Complete-Lucky Blue (Boston Celtics)
558JB-Complete-Song Sung Blue
641JB-Complete-Blue Come Back Now Ya Hear?
634JB-Complete-B*L*U*E
534JB-Complete-Bada Bing, Bada Blue
598JB-Complete-Bluemanity

Phase 2; 91/110 82% Complete
91/99 91%*

729JB-Complete-If You Can Read This, You’re Blue Close
763JB-Complete-What’s Old is Blue Again (Retrojet)
591JB-Complete-Tail Of Blue Cities
766JB-Complete-Etay Luebay
594JB-Complete-Whole Lotta Blue
760JB-Complete-The Blues Were Made For Flying
552JB-Complete-Blue Jay
605JB-Complete-Boston Red Sox
644JB-Complete-Blue Loves Ya Baby
527JL-Complete-Blue Bayou
564JB-Complete-Absolute Blue
768JB-Complete-Blue Crew
643JB-Complete-Blue Jersey
586JB-Complete-I <3 Blue York
607JB-Complete-Beantown Blue
561JB-Complete-La Vie En Blue
775JB-Complete-Vets in Blue
563JB-Complete-Blue Chip
606JB-Complete-Idlewild Blue
779JB-Complete-Bluericua
665JB-Complete-Something About Blue
583JB-Complete-Bluesville
585JB-Complete-I Got Blue Babe
636JB-Complete-All Wrapped Up In Blue
796JB-Complete-100% Blue
651JB-Complete-I’m Having A Blue Moment
649JB-Complete-Fancy Meeting Blue Here
827JB-Complete-It Takes Blue to Tango (WL)
705JB-Complete-Big Blue People Seater
612JB-Complete-Blue Look Maahvelous
652JB-Complete-Out With Old In With The Blue
531JL-Complete-Blue Finest (NYPD paint)
565JB-Complete-Bippity Boppity Blue
547JB-Complete-Forever Blue
608JB-Complete-...And Along Came Blue
615JB-Complete-Blue Bravest (NYFD paint)
805JB-Complete-You Had Me At Blue (WL)
569JB-Complete-Blues Brothers
648JB-Complete-Hasta La Vista (Vacations Special 1 of 3)
554JB-Complete-Sacre’ Bleu!
507JT-Complete-Blue Crew (Oldest 320 so far)
508JL-Complete-May The Force Be With Blue
587JB-Complete-Blue Kid In Town
618JB-Complete-Can’t Get Enough Of Blue
526JL-Complete-Blues Just Want To Have Fun
655JB-Complete-Blue 100
623JB-Complete-Playa-Way With Me (Vacations Special 2 of 3)
708JB-Complete-All That And A Bag Of Blue Chips (WL)
789JB-Complete-What’s Blue And Flies All Over?
784JB-Complete-Blue Infinity And Beyond!
588JB-Complete-Hopelessly Devoted To Blue
589JB-Complete-Blue Skies Ahead
590JB-Complete-Liberty Blue
645JB-Complete-Blues Have More Fun
613JB-Complete-Bahama Blue
603JB-Complete-To Beach Their Own(Vacations paint 3 of 3)
746JB-Complete-Go Jets! (New York Jets Special)
793JB-Complete-My Other Ride Is a JetBlue E190
663JB-Complete-Paint the Town Blue
562JB-Complete-The Name Is Blue, JetBlue
592JB-Complete-American Blue
656JB-Complete-California Blue
509JB-Complete-True Blue
535JB-Complete-Estrella Azul
834JB-Complete-Keep Blue and Carry On(WL)(Youngest 320)
828JB-Complete-It Takes Blue to Tango (WL)
640JB-Complete-Blue Better Believe It
597JB-Complete-For The Love Of Blue
566JB-Complete-Blue Suede Shoes
537JT-Complete-Red, White & Blue
703JB-Complete-It’s up to blue, New York, New York
625JB-Complete-CompanyBlue
624JB-Complete-Blue-T-Ful
593JB-Complete-American Blue
706JB-Complete-As Blue As It Gets
794JB-Complete-Shantay, Blue Stay
630JB-Complete-Honk If You Love Blue
809JB-Complete-JetBlue For Good (WL)
637JB-Complete-Big Blue Bus
639JB-Complete-A Little Blue Will Do
807JB-Complete-1. Fly jetBlue 2. Repeat step 1 (WL)
715JB-Complete-How’s My Flying? Call 1-800-jetBlue (WL)
709JB-Complete-Blue (in binary code) (WL)
599JB-Complete-If the Blue Fits
661JB-Complete-Let The Blue Times Roll
659JB-Complete-Simply Blue
712JB-Complete-Enough About Me…Let’s Talk About Blue
638JB-Complete-Blue Begins With You
658JB-Complete-Woo-Hoo JetBlue
635JB-Complete-All Because of Blue
657JB-Complete-Denim Blue
505JB-RTS-Ferried MZJ-SAL 10-17
506JB-RTS-Ferried MZJ-SAL 11-5
821JB-In Progress- Ferried FLL-SAL 11-26
633JB-In Progress- Ferried BOS-SAL 12-4
804JB-In Progress- Ferried FLL-SAL 12-6

Total Complete: 111/130 85%
111/119 93%**

(WL)= Plane is equipped with Sharklets. Sharklet mods are not happening with no plans to restart it.

Note: * and ** Both reflect the totals with the 11 planes taken out that as of now will not be getting the refurbished.
Those tails are believed to be 503-506, 516,517,519,520,521,523 and 524. RTS= Return to Service

Final Tails to get modified; 662, 584, 559, and 536

B6JFKH81 wrote:

Brianpr3 wrote:

How many more to go

4 more. 1 will get to SAL this month, then the last 3 will be done on a single nose to tail line so 1 plane per month January, February and March.

So when I fly in April I have a STRONG probability of getting a phase 1 or 2 aircraft

If it’s a 320 they should all be complete by then, so it’s almost a cast iron certainty that you will barring any last minute delays on the few remaining.

VS4ever wrote:

If it’s a 320 they should all be complete by then, so it’s almost a cast iron certainty that you will barring any last minute delays on the few remaining.

8% are not being done, so I would say you have a 92% chance in April.

Brianpr3 wrote:

B6JFKH81 wrote:

Brianpr3 wrote:

How many more to go

4 more. 1 will get to SAL this month, then the last 3 will be done on a single nose to tail line so 1 plane per month January, February and March.

So when I fly in April I have a STRONG probability of getting a phase 1 or 2 aircraft

What’s the route? So long as a 190 or one of the 11 never-mod 320s gets put on it.

Brianpr3 wrote:

B6JFKH81 wrote:

Brianpr3 wrote:

How many more to go

4 more. 1 will get to SAL this month, then the last 3 will be done on a single nose to tail line so 1 plane per month January, February and March.

So when I fly in April I have a STRONG probability of getting a phase 1 or 2 aircraft

It's been the case for quite some time now considering the majority of our fleet has been completed for over a year. The last plane will be done in March leaving 11 aircraft non-modified which will start getting retired in 2023. The non-modified planes will probably (I don't know the full plan) operate some of the short haul, non-premium markets, and fill in for operational issues otherwise. So, depending on the route you are flying, yes you should probably be on a modified aircraft.

JoseSalazar wrote:

Brianpr3 wrote:

B6JFKH81 wrote:

4 more. 1 will get to SAL this month, then the last 3 will be done on a single nose to tail line so 1 plane per month January, February and March.

So when I fly in April I have a STRONG probability of getting a phase 1 or 2 aircraft

What’s the route? So long as a 190 or one of the 11 never-mod 320s gets put on it.

Rsw is my home route so rsw - nyc including jfk lga and ewr

B6JFKH81 wrote:

Brianpr3 wrote:

B6JFKH81 wrote:

4 more. 1 will get to SAL this month, then the last 3 will be done on a single nose to tail line so 1 plane per month January, February and March.

So when I fly in April I have a STRONG probability of getting a phase 1 or 2 aircraft

It's been the case for quite some time now considering the majority of our fleet has been completed for over a year. The last plane will be done in March leaving 11 aircraft non-modified which will start getting retired in 2023. The non-modified planes will probably (I don't know the full plan) operate some of the short haul, non-premium markets, and fill in for operational issues otherwise. So, depending on the route you are flying, yes you should probably be on a modified aircraft.

I mentioned a few times a while back that i am RSW based so basically RSW-NYC (JFK, LGA and EWR)

N821JB left yesterday, should be performing revenue flights starting tomorrow.
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N821JB

N662JB arrived yesterday.
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N662JB

Current aircraft in production:
N633JB (mod aircraft # 114, early January release)
N804JB (mod aircraft # 115, early January release)
N662JB (mod aircraft # 116 - last of the originally planned mod aircraft, mid-January release)

2022 modifications (aircraft added to the list after mod started), modification should be complete on all 119 aircraft by end of 1Q.
N559JB - January
N536JB - February
N584JB - March

Happy Holidays and a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous 2022 to you all!

B6JFKH81 wrote:

N821JB left yesterday, should be performing revenue flights starting tomorrow.
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N821JB

N662JB arrived yesterday.
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N662JB

Current aircraft in production:
N633JB (mod aircraft # 114, early January release)
N804JB (mod aircraft # 115, early January release)
N662JB (mod aircraft # 116 - last of the originally planned mod aircraft, mid-January release)

2022 modifications (aircraft added to the list after mod started), modification should be complete on all 119 aircraft by end of 1Q.
N559JB - January
N536JB - February
N584JB - March

Happy Holidays and a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous 2022 to you all!

Thank you so much for keeping us updated this year. I hope to hear about refurbishment programs for other series next year.

Anyone have an idea of how much life is left in the birds that are not scheduled to get the refit? There are other 320s out there that are approaching 30yrs of service. B6’s oldest 320 N503 is 22yrs old. I know B6 has always run a hot operation/fleet utilization so understandably their 320s might time out sooner then other examples. But B6 also seems to have a fleet shortage problem and they can’t seem to get planes fast enough for what they want to fly, would it make sense for them to revaluate these 11 320s and possible send all if not a just a few in for the refresh and keep them longer?

A few examples of 320s that are older then N503
DL N309US- 31.4yrs old (active)
UA N401UA-28.3yrs old (active)
AA N102UW- 23.6yrs old (active)
AC C-FKPT- 29.7yrs old (active)
GE (Global Aviation) ZS-GAL- 32.5yrs old (active) ex Braniff bird.

FARmd90 wrote:

Anyone have an idea of how much life is left in the birds that are not scheduled to get the refit? There are other 320s out there that are approaching 30yrs of service. B6’s oldest 320 N503 is 22yrs old. I know B6 has always run a hot operation/fleet utilization so understandably their 320s might time out sooner then other examples. But B6 also seems to have a fleet shortage problem and they can’t seem to get planes fast enough for what they want to fly, would it make sense for them to revaluate these 11 320s and possible send all if not a just a few in for the refresh and keep them longer?

A few examples of 320s that are older then N503
DL N309US- 31.4yrs old (active)
UA N401UA-28.3yrs old (active)
AA N102UW- 23.6yrs old (active)
AC C-FKPT- 29.7yrs old (active)
GE (Global Aviation) ZS-GAL- 32.5yrs old (active) ex Braniff bird.

4 320s go back in 2023. Not sure about 2024-26, but I believe at this time only those 11 never mod aircraft, all leased iirc, go back to leasing companies between 23-26 (as well as the 30 leased 190s). From a broader fleet perspective, there are a lot of deliveries in 2023 and on, and there will be more orders, so the few that get retired are more than backfilled from a capacity standpoint (especially when you consider they are replacing 100 and 150 seaters with 140 and 200 seaters). And the 140 seaters will be a higher utilization fleet than the 100 seaters. So, capacity growth is still good even with the lease returns. For reference, 2023, the first year of lease returns, has a net gain of 19 aircraft, again all larger gauge than the planes they are replacing.

As for the fleet shortage…I agree, which is why they extended the 190’s lives (and the lives of the never mod aircraft that were sitting in the desert) until they could get more 220s/NEOs. But beyond 2023, it likely doesn’t make financial sense to extend/buy out those leases. I think they’d rather plop down the CapEx on more 223s/321s than pay the increasing mx costs/higher fuel costs for 162 seat 320s that likely have worse economics. If they were owned outright it’d likely be a different story. I could maybe see them sticking around as a low utilization flex/spare fleet in that case.

JoseSalazar wrote:

Just me with some wishful thinking here, but if money was no factor I’d like to see them just convert the mint 321CEOs to 200 seaters during a mid life cabin refresh and replace them with new delivery mint NEOs so that the domestic mint fleet was all standard, and all NEOs. Basically just take all future NEO deliveries as mint, then as the network allows and as mint CEOs hit heavy checks, convert them to 200 seaters. Not sure if the 321CEO mint galleys, mid cabin LAV, pantry, and extra ACT would be feasible to take out to standardize it to the other 321CEOs though. But assuming so, it could maybe be done in say 2024-27 sometime as some of those 321s get older and more NEOs get delivered. Perhaps they could order kits to mod all the 321CEOs up to the new meridian/AVANT/viasat 2/extra large overhead bin standard that the NEOs now have, that way they’d do all 63 CEOs. But, I doubt that happens…just wishful thinking on my part.
So, the 321 fleet would be:
321CEO: 63 200 seaters
321NEO: 43 mint, 16 200 seaters, plus the LR/XLRs

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This is a great idea, especially since I heard that B6 is not taking anymore non-LR 321s till 2023. Would it be too late for B6 to have all A21N’s all LR & LD for 2023 and beyond? And since CAPEX wouldn’t be a prob then, wishfully they could renovate as many 9##J_s from MINT to Y200, but again, wishful.

I see that 223s are more economical, etc., but they should maybe replace the last 30 E90’s with 221s The 223’s can’t go to HYA and MVY and the only way for 221s to go there is to limit the weight.

N804JB has departed SAL:

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N804JB

Aircraft in progress:
N633JB - Should depart around 1/10
N662JB - Should depart around 1/19

In keeping with other airlines on the forum, JetBlue will now have both a Network and Fleet Thread. Since this thread has been open for a few years, it might be good for a fresh start with an annual fleet thread. Link below.

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1468841

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