The Department of Transportation fined JetBlue Airways $2 million for “operating multiple chronically delayed flights,” the first time an airline has been penalized for such a thing.
The DOT investigation uncovered four flights that were chronically delayed between June 2022 and November 2023 for at least five straight months. There were a total of 395 delays and cancellations between the four flight routes, garnering the airline criticism for engaging in an “unrealistic scheduling practice which can harm both passengers and fair competition across the airline industry.”
These frequent delays were recorded on flights going between New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport and Raleigh-Durham International Airport in North Carolina, JFK and Fort Lauderdale in Florida, JFK and Orlando, and Windsor Locks and Fort Lauderdale.
“Illegal chronic flight delays…
