Current Report Filing (8-k)

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE

SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): November 18, 2019

JETBLUE AIRWAYS CORPORATION

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)



Delaware	000-49728		87-0617894
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)	(Commission File Number)		(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

27-01 Queens Plaza North	Long Island City	New York	11101
(Address of principal executive offices)			(Zip Code)

(718) 286-7900

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

N/A

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report.)

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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:



Title of each class	Trading Symbol	Name of each exchange on which registered
Common Stock, $0.01 par value	JBLU	The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC

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Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

(d) On November 18, 2019, the Board of Directors of JetBlue Airways Corporation (the "Company") increased the number of members of the Board of Directors to twelve and appointed Vivek Sharma to fill the newly created vacancy.

Mr. Sharma is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of InStride, a strategic enterprise education company. He previously served as Senior Vice President of eCommerce and Digital Guest Experience at The Walt Disney Company. Mr. Sharma is also an adjunct professor of data science at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business, where he teaches business innovation to graduate students.

Our Board of Directors has appointed Mr. Sharma to serve as an independent member of the Audit Committee. There are no arrangements or understandings between Mr. Sharma and any other persons pursuant to which Mr. Sharma was selected as a director and there are no transactions in which Mr. Sharma has an interest requiring disclosure under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K. Mr. Sharma will be compensated in accordance with the Company's publicly disclosed director compensation policies.

SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.



			JETBLUE AIRWAYS CORPORATION
			(Registrant)

Date:	November 20, 2019	By:	/s/ Alexander Chatkewitz
			Vice President, Controller, and Chief Accounting Officer (Principal Accounting Officer)