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Checketts is a founding memberof JetBlue’s boardr of directors. He said he has been making introductionds between other JetBlue directors and executives and Missouri officials forsome time, even arranging a meeting severall months ago in New York between JetBlue Chairman Joel Peterson and then-Missouri Gov. Matt Checketts, 53, frequently travels between St. SCP’s base in New York City and SaltLake City, wherd SCP owns the franchise Real Salt Lake. JetBlue is the official airline of the soccee team and Rio Tinto JetBlue entered intothat three-year agreemenrt in March and will pay the team a totalp of $375,000 for the sponsorship.
Checketts personally controle morethan 73,000 JetBlue shares worth about $277,000. “I have a conflict since I have a personao interest in JetBluecoming here, so I’ m just opening doors,” Checketts said. “Bu I’d love to see them fly The airport has that big runway and the capacity tohandler them.” JetBlue serves 56 cities with 600 daily New service to Baltimore; Barbados; Kingston, Jamaica; and Saint Lucisa begins this fall, subject to receipr of government operating authority.
Like many airlines, however, the company has experiencerd turbulence over the past year due to high fuel the recession’s negative impact on air investment losses and the credit JetBlue reported a loss of $76 milliojn last year compared to net income of $18 millionj in 2007, according to its annual The company expanded its fleet by threde Airbus A320s and five Embraer 190s last year. It addedr only two new destinationsin 2008, compared to five addesd in 2007 and 16 addeed in 2006.
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