JetBlue is offering free flight cancellations or changes on all newly-booked flights, as people grow increasingly worried about traveling during the deadly coronavirus outbreak.
JetBlue is the first US airline to offer such a policy on all routes, though some other airlines are offering similar conditions to people who booked flights to the worst-affected areas.JetBlue said its policy applies to flights booked between February 27 and March 11, providing the flight is completed by June 1.JetBlue has become the first US airline to waive cancelation and flight-change fees on all of its routes because of the rapidly spreading coronavirus.
Many airlines in Asia have refunded tickets and other airlines, including US ones, have allowed customers to change flights bound for certain areas. But JetBlue is the first in the US to offer such a wide policy., where the virus is rapidly taking hold. People in protective face masks stand near a machine measuring body temperature at a convention hall in Tokyo, Japan, on February 27, 2020.Joanna Geraghty, JetBlue's CEO and President, acknowledged this in a statement and said: "While authorities have not issued any travel restrictions to the locations we fly, we want to give our customers some peace of mind that we are ready to support them should the situation change.
Medical staff at the Central Hospital of Wuhan, China, during a coronavirus outbreak that has pushed the city to breaking point.Given that JetBlue's new policy only applies to newly-booked flights, it is likely designed to encourage people to keep booking flights and stop a potential halt in new flight bookings over concerns about the virus.thanks to the spread of the virus and related flight cancellations or travel restrictions.
techinsider why charge people who are just trying to stay safe and avoid catching something?
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