JetBlue Offers “Cheep” Seats Via Twitter
Just another reason to love Twitter. Starting today JetBlue is offering a great new way to score cheap airfare via the interwebs. When you follow the low-cost carrier’s new JetBlue Cheeps Twitter page, you will be notified of insanely low weekend airfare.
The first group of “Cheeps” were announced this morning at 10am EST and they were pretty damn sweet.
- Boston to New York, New York to Nantucket, and Fort Lauderdale to Nassau for $9 one-way
- New York to Chicago and Boston to Washington Dulles for $19 one-way
- Orlando to Aguadilla, Puerto Rico for $29 one-way
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But before you hand over a few bucks to go Jetting around the country, realize that these prices are before tax and you still need to fly home at a regular price. But if you were to plan say a Boston-New York weekend escape, you could fly one-way and take one of those cheapo transportation like Megabus or Boltbus the other way. Also there is a limited amount of seats available with each “Cheeps” deal, so you will need to be quick with plucking a seat online.
In any event, it is definitely another reason why airlines like JetBlue, Southwest, and Virgin America “get it” by using sites like Twitter to interact with their customer base. Something the “big boy” airlines like Continental, United, and US Airways seriously are lacking in this media age.
