JetBlue Renews Long-Term Partnership Agreements with Barclays and Mastercard
July 26 2021 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Barclays and Mastercard will continue to
provide JetBlue cardmembers with robust rewards and benefits while
new agreements will introduce groundbreaking enhancements over
time
JetBlue (NASDAQ: JBLU) today announced a multi-year extension of
their co-branded credit card agreements with both Barclays and
Mastercard. The partnership renewal will extend and expand their
consumer and small business credit card portfolios. The agreement
will center on the continued delivery of innovative,
digital-centric card offerings that meet consumer’s evolving needs
and foster engagement and loyalty.
“We have had a highly successful collaboration with both
Barclays and Mastercard. Building on our current best-in-class
products, we are already acting on a plan that will disrupt the
industry and bring even more value to our cardmembers,” said Don
Uselmann, vice president loyalty, JetBlue. “Over time, we will
introduce an enhanced product set, reimagined benefits, and a high
degree of personalization and choice.”
Since 2016, Barclays has been the exclusive issuer and
Mastercard has been the exclusive network of JetBlue’s co-branded
credit card program in the United States.
“During the past five years, we have built a sizeable credit
card portfolio with JetBlue. We are thrilled to have the privilege
to continue our strong and collaborative partnership, and we look
forward to providing JetBlue cardmembers with robust rewards,
benefits and experiences for years to come,” said Bob Highland,
head of cards and partnerships, Barclays US Consumer Bank.
“Barclays’ ‘partner-first’ approach enables us to invest in highly
customized solutions that outperform our brand-focused competitors
in growing the size, scale, and customer penetration of our
programs.”
“Mastercard’s suite of benefit offerings and Priceless
platforms, coupled with the Barclays and JetBlue custom curated
benefits, ensure that consumers can enjoy an enhanced travel
experience from booking through departure,” said John Levitsky, EVP
account management in North America for Mastercard. “With
cardmember needs at the core of the partnership, Mastercard will
also leverage its Test & Learn platform and loyalty solutions
to enable continued innovation within the card offerings.”
JetBlue cardmembers will continue to see the same great benefits
from both Barclays and Mastercard, as well as see enhanced value
from a new, long-term exclusive agreement. As part of the
enhanced product set, they will creatively work together to help
provide credit options to customers who may be unbanked or
underserved.
About JetBlue Airways
JetBlue is New York's Hometown Airline®, and a leading carrier
in Boston, Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood, Los Angeles, Orlando and San
Juan. JetBlue carries customers across the U.S., Caribbean and
Latin America. For more information, visit jetblue.com.
About Barclays
Barclays US Consumer Bank is a leading co-branded credit card
issuer and financial services partner in the United States that
creates highly customized programs to drive customer loyalty and
engagement for some of the country's most successful travel,
entertainment, retail and affinity institutions. The bank offers
co-branded credit cards, small business credit cards, installment
loans, POS Finance, online savings accounts, and CDs. For more
information, please visit www.BarclaysUS.com.
Barclays is a British universal bank. We are diversified by
business, by different types of customer and client, and geography.
Our businesses include consumer banking and payments operations
around the world, as well as a top-tier, full service, global
corporate and investment bank, all of which are supported by our
service company which provides technology, operations and
functional services across the Group. For further information about
Barclays, please visit www.Barclays.com.
About Mastercard (NYSE: MA)
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments
industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital
economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions
safe, simple, smart and accessible. Using secure data and networks,
partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help
individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses
realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ,
drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our
company. With connections across more than 210 countries and
territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks
priceless possibilities for all. www.mastercard.com.
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JetBlue: corpcomm@jetblue.com (718) 709-3089
Barclays: George Caudill gcaudill@barclaycardus.com (202)
520-5656
Mastercard : Sarah Ely Sarah.ely@mastercard.com
(914)325-4716
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