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Flying sucks, but some airlines suck less than others.
- Flying sucks. That's something most of us can agree on.
- But some airlines are much, much worse than others. The goal of choosing an airline: to make the process of getting from point A to point B as painless as possible.
- Jetblue has consistently earned sky-high customer satisfaction ratings. So on a cross-country trip from New York to Los Angeles, I chose to fly economy class with Jetblue.
- Although not all aspects of my experience were as smooth as they could have been, my experience was distinguished by exceptional service and more freebies than I could even use.
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No matter what sports team or presidential candidate you support, everyone can agree on one thing after this holiday season: flying sucks.
As much as we may enjoy stepping foot on white-sand beaches or the carpeted floors of our childhood homes, the process of getting there is infamously unpleasant.
Holiday travel has long been the source of the frustration, chagrin, and existential spirals most famously chronicled in John Landis's transportation nightmare classic, "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles."
But if you're going somewhere, you gotta get there somehow. And you might as well get there as painlessly as possible. New York-based airline Jetblue was named the best domestic airline for economy class travelers by The Points Guy, and has consistently earned high customer satisfaction ratings.
So on a recent cross-country flight from New York to Los Angeles, I flew economy class on Jetblue. Here's what it was like.
