{"id":393862,"date":"2026-03-26T08:06:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T22:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/jetblue-considers-selling-major-us-carrier-weighs-washington-react\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T08:06:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T22:06:42","slug":"jetblue-considers-selling-itself-to-a-major-us-carrier-weighs-how-washington-will-react","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=393862","title":{"rendered":"JetBlue Considers Selling Itself To A Major US Carrier, Weighs How Washington Will React"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York-based <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"24733\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/jetblue\/\"  >JetBlue Airways<\/a><\/span> has been working with advisers to explore the viability of being sold to rival airlines. As reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/03\/25\/2026\/jetblue-explores-potential-merger-partners\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >Semafor<\/a>, the airline has a scenario-based plan on how it could work with <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"128657\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>United Airlines<\/span><\/span>, <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254956\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/alaska-airlines\/\"  >Alaska Airlines<\/a><\/span>, or <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"44355\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/southwest-airlines\/\"  >Southwest Airlines<\/a><\/span>. This proposal would also look to understand how it would fare with support from Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JetBlue&#8217;s exploration of a potential sale to rival airlines has sparked intense speculation and antitrust scrutiny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,1149,476,1147,1027,423,1983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airline-merger","category-airlines","category-jetblue","category-merger","category-united-states","category-washington-dc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=393862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":393865,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393862\/revisions\/393865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=393862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=393862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=393862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}