JetBlue Has Started Shrinking Legroom and Upgrading Interiors on Its Older Aircraft
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JetBlue is the latest airline to fall behind on a cabin retrofit program. It happens sometimes, as it's not so easy to update airplane interiors. But the first plane is in the shop. Considering JetBlue has some planes that haven't been touched since the early 2000s, this is welcome news.
JetBlue Airways is finally modernizing interiors on its older Airbus airplanes, adding new seats with adjustable headrests, in-seat power, better televisions and LED lighting — a welcome change, considering many of its aircraft have barely been updated in a decade or more.
But it's not all good news. When all 130 Airbus A320s get the new product — the first plane is in the shop now — JetBlue will have shrunk passenger legroom. Customers should have about 32 inches of pitch, a decrease from 34 inches, though JetBlue stresses that, fleetwide, it will retain the most average legroom among U.S. airlines. The modernized interiors will roughly match wha
