JetBlue Airways Scores Big with New York's Newest Venue: Signs on
as the Official Domestic Airline of Barclays Center
NEW YORK, Dec. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- JetBlue Airways
(Nasdaq: JBLU), New York's
Hometown Airline™, today proudly announces its status as the
Official Domestic Airline of the brand new Barclays Center in
Brooklyn, a major sports and
entertainment venue showcasing an extensive variety of events,
including premier concerts, major professional boxing cards, top
college basketball, family shows, and the Brooklyn Nets.
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On Thursday, Dec. 20 the airline
will launch the partnership with Barclays Center Day from
7:30 a.m. to 11 a.m., post-security
at its world-class home at John F. Kennedy International Airport's (JFK) Terminal
5, complete with a branded SportPros court where ticketed customers
will have the opportunity to shoot hoops for great prizes including
flight giveaways and Nets game tickets. The Brooklyn Nets
dance team, Brooklynettes, will be onsite to entertain.
"Barclays Center represents renewal and innovation in
New York, much like JetBlue was
introduced over a decade ago," said Marty
St. George, senior vice president of marketing and
commercial strategy. "We're very happy to be part of this new
endeavor, which promises to delight and entertain fans for many
years to come. As the largest domestic carrier at JFK, with our new
support center here in Long Island
City, we're New York's
Hometown Airline and, like the Barclays Center, will maintain our
focus on top notch customer service, value and entertainment. The
partnership is a perfect fit!"
"JetBlue is a great New York
City-based airline, which offers the same commitment to top
customer service and innovation as Barclays Center," Barclays
Center CEO Brett Yormark said. "We
are looking forward to welcoming JetBlue passengers to Barclays
Center for world-class sports and entertainment."
Each Thursday during the month of January, 2013, Barclays Center
will host a "Bound for Brooklyn"
sweepstakes, presented by JetBlue. Customers can visit
Barclays Center's Facebook page at facebook.com/barclayscenter and
enter for the chance to win a pair of round trip JetBlue tickets to
or from New York, plus a pair of
tickets to an event at Barclays Center. Five winners will be
selected every Thursday for a total of 25 winners.
JetBlue's partnership with Barclays Center, located in the heart
of Brooklyn and designed by the
award-winning architectural firms Ellerbe
Becket and SHoP Architects, includes exclusive digital
street-to-seat signage for all events, courtside television-visible
signage and baseline signage during Brooklyn Nets home games, and
arena activation rights. Brooklyn's own JAY Z launched Barclays Center's inaugural
season with eight sold out shows. The arena's BrooklynTaste™
culinary program, customer service, outstanding sightlines, easy
accessibility, 101 luxury suites, four bars/lounges, three clubs
and the newest location of the 40/40 CLUB & Restaurant by
American Express, all guarantee that an event at Barclays Center is
destined to be a memorable one.
JetBlue is the largest domestic airline at JFK, operating more
than 150 nonstop flights daily to 56 destinations throughout
the United States, the
Caribbean and Latin America. The customer service friendly
airline carried more than two million travelers from the airport
last year to its many international destinations including:
Barbados; Colombia; Costa
Rica; Dominican Republic;
Jamaica; Mexico; Saint
Lucia; St. Maarten; and
Turks and Caicos - all of which will soon enjoy the seamless
experience of arriving into the new international arrivals terminal
extension.
About Barclays Center
Barclays Center opened on
September 28, 2012, and is a major
sports and entertainment venue in the heart of Brooklyn, New York. Developed by Brooklyn-based real estate developer Forest
City Ratner Companies, and designed by the award-winning
architectural firms AECOM (www.aecom.com/architecture) and SHoP
Architects (www.shoparc.com), Barclays Center has one of the most
intimate seating configurations ever designed into a modern
multi-purpose arena, with unparalleled sightlines and first-class
amenities. Barclays Center offers approximately 17,732 seats for
basketball, 14,500 seats for hockey and up to 19,000 seats for
concerts, and has 101 luxury suites, four bars/lounges, four clubs,
and 40/40 CLUB & Restaurant by American Express.
Barclays Center is hosting an extensive variety of events,
including premier concerts, monthly major professional boxing
cards, top college basketball, family shows, the Brooklyn Nets and
soon the New York Islanders.
In addition to Barclays, the naming rights partner, Founding
Partners for Barclays Center include American Honda Motor Co.,
Inc., American Express, Calvin
Klein, Cushman & Wakefield, EmblemHealth, Foxwoods
Resort Casino, GEICO, MetroPCS, Stolichnaya, and Ticketmaster.
Other sponsors include: adidas, Anheuser-Busch, The Coca-Cola
Company, Haier America, High Point Solutions, JetBlue, LIU
Brooklyn, New York Marriott at the
Brooklyn Bridge, SONY, and Willis.
Located atop one of the largest transportation hubs in
New York City, Barclays Center is
accessible by 11 subway lines, the Long Island Rail Road, and 11
bus lines.
For more information on Barclays Center, please visit
www.barclayscenter.com.
About JetBlue
Airways
JetBlue is New York's Hometown
Airline™ with focus cities in Boston, Fort
Lauderdale, Los Angeles,
New York City, San Juan, and Orlando. Known for its award-winning service
and free in-flight entertainment as much as its low fares, JetBlue
offers the most legroom in coach of any U.S. airline (based on
average fleet-wide seat pitch) as well as super-spacious
Even More Space seats. JetBlue is
also America's first and only airline to offer its own Customer
Bill of Rights, with meaningful and specific compensation for
customers inconvenienced by service disruptions within JetBlue's
control. Visit www.jetblue.com/promise for details. JetBlue serves
75 cities with 750 daily flights and plans to launch service to
Charleston, S.C., Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Philadelphia in 2013. With JetBlue, all seats
are assigned, all fares are one-way, and an overnight stay is never
required. For information call +1 800-538-2583 (TTY/TDD +1
800-336-5530) or visit www.jetblue.com.
(a) No purchase necessary to enter or win the
Sweepstakes. The Barclays Center-JetBlue
"Bound for Brooklyn" Sweepstakes
is only open to legal residents of the 50 United States, at least
21 years of age or older at time of entry. Void where
prohibited. Sweepstakes ends on 01/31/13. Five winners
will be selected at random each week during the month of January
2013. There will be twenty-five winners total.
Each winner will receive (i) a pair of round-trip flight tickets
courtesy of JetBlue (either destination or origin must be
New York), and (ii) a pair of
tickets to an event at Barclays Center. The Sweepstakes are
subject to the Official Rules to be made available at
www.facebook.com/barclayscenter and all federal, state,
and local laws and regulations. Sponsor: JetBlue Airways.
Reservations
+1 800 JETBLUE (538 2583)
TTY/TDD: +1 800 336-5530
www.jetblue.com
SOURCE JetBlue Airways