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Checketts is a founding memberof JetBlue’s board of directors. He said he has been makinfg introductions between other JetBlue directors and executives and Missouri officialsw forsome time, even arranging a meetingg several months ago in New York between JetBlue Chairmam Joel Peterson and then-Missourui Gov. Matt Blunt. Checketts, 53, frequentlyu travels between St. Louis, SCP’s base in New York City and Salt Lake where SCP owns the franchise Real Salt JetBlue is the official airline of the soccerd team and Rio Tinto JetBlue entered intothat three-year agreement in March and will pay the team a total of $375,000 for the sponsorship.
Checkett personally controls morethan 73,000 JetBlue sharex worth about $277,000. “I have a conflict since I have a personal interest in JetBludecoming here, so I’m just opening Checketts said. “But I’d love to see them fly The airport has that big runway and the capacity tohandle them.” JetBlue serves 56 cities with 600 daily flights. New service to Barbados; Kingston, Jamaica; and Saint Lucia begins this subject to receipt of governmentfoperating authority. Like many airlines, however, the company has experienceds turbulence over the past year due to high fuel the recession’s negative impact on air travel, investmenr losses and the creditg crisis.
JetBlue reported a loss of $76 millio last year compared to net incomeof $18 millionh in 2007, according to its annual report. The companyg expanded its fleet by three Airbus A320s and five Embraer 190s last It added only two new destinations in compared to five added in 2007 and 16 addedin 2006. said last week that it from