Originally posted by: maximo
i was on the website... what is jet blue anyways? Is it a new airplane company or its just a place to book flights like Hotwire?
Originally posted by: myusername
Originally posted by: maximo
i was on the website... what is jet blue anyways? Is it a new airplane company or its just a place to book flights like Hotwire?
It's an airline. They used to call themselves something else, but a couple years ago they burned and crashed one of their airplanes (and passengers) in florida after improperly labelling/shipping O2 cannisters, so they changed their name so that people would forget about it. I guess it kinda worked.
Originally posted by: pyrojunkie
WTF, Jetblue doesn't service Chicago? We have O'hare airport, the busiest airport in the world.
Originally posted by: Overkiller
Jetblue is relatively new, all new airplanes...
During the Airline crash that affected every carrier JETBLUE was the ONLY carrier to make money.
Millions of JetBlue passenger records were used in a military effort whose methods closely resemble those employed in the notorious Terrorism Information Awareness überdatabase program, the Army confirmed Monday.
In an example of the privacy issues raised by the Bush administration's aggressive stance on airline security, the American airline JetBlue Airways acknowledged on Friday that it had provided the Pentagon with information on more than one million of its passengers, as part of a program to track down terrorists and other "high risk" passengers.
Those records, which were turned over in violation of the airline's own privacy policies, were then used to identify the passengers' Social Security numbers, financial histories and occupations.
JetBlue, a three-year-old discount airline, sent an e-mail message to passengers this week, conceding that it had made a mistake in providing the records last year to Torch Concepts, an Army contractor in Huntsville, Ala., for a research project on ?airline passenger risk assessment.?
?This was a mistake on our part, and I know you and many of our customers feel betrayed by it,? said David Neeleman, JetBlue?s chief executive, in an e-mail message that the airline, based in New York, said was sent to about 150 passengers who had written in so far to complain.
The chairman of the U.S. Senate Governmental Affairs Committee has sent a letter of inquiry to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld seeking to determine if the Dept. of Defense complied with Privacy Act requirements when an information-mining contractor working for the U.S. Army acquired the names, addresses, phone numbers, and itineraries of more than one million JetBlue passengers.
A Pentagon spokesman has stated that Torch Concepts was performing work for the Army on how personal data could be used to improve security at defense bases. The Privacy Act makes agencies responsible for ensuring that contractors comply with the law's terms when establishing a system of records on the agency's behalf.
"We note that a spokesman for the Army reportedly asserted that the Army never had access to the passenger records collected by Torch Concepts, and that therefore it did not expect to find any privacy violations of its own," the letter states. "However, the Privacy Act applies to contractors working for the federal government, and the Act's criminal penalties apply to employees of the contractor as if they were employees of the federal government.