Blue Sky, the loyalty partnership between United Airways and JetBlue Airways, is now dwell, enabling members of every airline’s loyalty program to earn miles or factors when flying the opposite airline and redeem them for award flights.
The partnership between United MileagePlus and JetBlue TrueBlue, which launched on Oct. 23, 2025, was introduced in Might. And this rollout is simply the beginning. Different advantages anticipated to return embody the power for every program’s elites to entry their advantages when touring on the opposite airline, beginning early 2026.
Beginning the primary quarter of 2026, clients may even be capable of e book itineraries for both airline utilizing money, no matter which airline’s app or web site you e book with. Presently, you may solely try this for award flights.
How one can earn factors or miles with the Blue Sky partnership
In the event you’re a JetBlue TrueBlue member
You’ll be able to earn JetBlue TrueBlue factors when taking United flights by reserving your flight via United and including your TrueBlue loyalty quantity to the reserving. You’ll additionally earn tiles, which is the metric JetBlue makes use of to find out elite standing.
TrueBlue members earn 5 TrueBlue factors per $1 spent on the bottom fare and carrier-imposed surcharges, whereas Mosaic elites earn a further 3 factors per $1 spent. (For JetBlue flights booked instantly with the airline, you’d usually earn 6 factors per $1 spent as your base.)
In the event you’re a United MileagePlus member
Equally, to earn United MileagePlus miles on JetBlue flights, make your reserving with JetBlue and add your MileagePlus quantity to your reservation.
MileagePlus members will earn United miles primarily based on the fare paid and whether or not they have elite standing — similar to the way it works while you take a United flight.
Basic members earn 5 miles per $1 spent, with the speed rising to 7 for Premier Silvers, 8 for Premier Golds, 9 for Premier Platinums and 11 for Premier 1K members.
Nevertheless, not all fare lessons are eligible for mileage accrual, and a few JetBlue routes will not be eligible for mileage incomes with United.
Ineligible flights are these between Newark Liberty Worldwide Airport (EWR) and the next locations: Aruba; Cancun, Mexico; Los Angeles; Las Vegas; and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.
JetBlue additionally flies to these locations from close by New York-John F. Kennedy Worldwide Airport (JFK).
How one can redeem factors or miles with the Blue Sky partnership
To e book an award flight on both airline, the method is similar as the way you’d usually do it. When you have TrueBlue factors, you’ll must e book via JetBlue’s app or web site, and if in case you have MileagePlus miles, you’ll go to United’s app or web site. If there’s availability, you will notice United flights present up within the search outcomes on JetBlue, and vice versa.
Nevertheless, it may not be the very best deal to redeem your JetBlue factors or United miles for flights on the opposite airline. Primarily based on preliminary searches, it was usually dearer (however not all the time) to make use of JetBlue factors or United miles to e book with the opposite airline.
When you have a journey bank card that earns transferable rewards, you’ll in all probability wish to keep away from transferring your factors to United miles to e book JetBlue flights, and vice versa. As an alternative, you’ll in all probability get higher worth by transferring on to JetBlue, for instance, to e book JetBlue flights.
Prime photograph courtesy of United Airways.
