JetBlue released its quarterly earnings on Monday, a day early, in an apparent bid to reassure investors after a report showed that its creditors were looking into how to get the airline to pay its debts. The airline had double-digit revenue growth and is optimistic about the rest of the year, even as fuel prices surge and uncertainty in the Middle East abounds.
The airline reported total operating revenue in the third quarter of 2026, from July to September, increased 21.1% to $2.8 billion when compared to the same period last year.
“Resilient demand and strong yields drove revenue well ahead of our initial expectations, allowing us to recapture more of the increase in fuel costs than we initially expected,” Joanna Geraghty, JetBlue’s chief executive officer, said in a statement accompanying the earnings release…