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JetBlue Opts to Stay in NYC Hangar

NEW YORK CITY-A package of incentives and the city's home-court advantage helped the Bloomberg administration keep the airline from moving to Orlando.

By Paul Bubny | Updated on March 22, 2010

NEW YORK CITY-JetBlue Airways, which had considered moving its headquarters to Orlando, will remain here after all. It’s the only airline still headquartered in New York City, once home to the now-defunct Trans-World Airlines and Pan American World Airways.

Currently headquartered on 12 floors at 118-29 Queens Blvd. in the Forest Hills section of Queens, the airline will move six miles closer to Manhattan by subleasing approximately 200,000 square feet at Brause Realty’s 27-01 Queens Plaza North in Long Island City. Ironically, the tenant from which it’s subleasing the space is MetLife, whose logo now sits atop Manhattan’s 200 Park Ave. in a space once occupied by the Pan Am emblem.

In 2012, JetBlue will consolidate its present operations in Forest Hills and Darien, CT into the Long Island City space, which will house a total of 950 employees. Seventy positions from the Darien offices, which provide transactional financial support, will be relocated to Queens. At a news conference Monday afternoon, JetBlue CEO Dave Barger said the airline plans to add another 130 positions at its new headquarters over the next few years.

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