A major US airline announced it will accept online booking payments from Venmo to attract younger flyers.

JetBlue rolled out the service to its website Tuesday, saying it will be added to the mobile app ‘in the coming months.’

US customers looking to book flights with Venmo are shown a pop-up window with a QR code to scan on the payment app. 

The flight amount will then appear in the Venmo app, allowing users to pay with their available funds, bank account, credit card or a mix.

Carol Clements, chief digital and technology officer of JetBlue, said: ‘We’re continually looking for ways to make it easier to book a JetBlue flight on our website and mobile app.

‘Adding Venmo offers a seamless payment option for customers who enjoy the ease and convenience of the Venmo platform.’

However, travelers are unable to use Venom when making in-flight purchases.

John Anderson, Senior Vice president and General Manager of Consumer, PayPal, added: ‘The added ability to pay with Venmo for flights on JetBlue and manage travel costs during the trip through Groups helps solve the pain points of shared expenses from the time of booking to returning home.’

A major US airline announced it will accept online booking payments from Venmo to attract younger flyers

A major US airline announced it will accept online booking payments from Venmo to attract younger flyers

Venmo, owned by PayPal, has become a favorite among younger generations due to its user-friendly interface and quick peer-to-peer payments.

As of January 2025, Venmo had 83 million users in the US.

Many other airplanes have long allowed payments with PayPal, including American, Delta, Southwest and United Airlines.

In September 2024, the JetBlue mobile app introduced additional features including a countdown to boarding on phone lock screens, as well as more easily accessible gate information.

After booking your flight, the next thing to do is find the perfect seat. And most people dread being stuck in the middle.

An avid flyer recently revealed a genius hack that ‘has a 100 percent perfect record,’ which allows people to avoid the dreaded middle seat free of charge.

Travel influencer Jordan Tually explained that if flyers ‘pretend’ to buy every available middle seat, prompting the system to hold those spots.

‘And that’s when you go to book yours,’ Tually said in a video.

JetBlue rolled out the service to its website Tuesday, saying it will be added to the mobile app 'in the coming months.' US customers looking to book JetBlue flights with Venmo are provided with a pop-up window that has a QR code for them to scan on the payment app

JetBlue rolled out the service to its website Tuesday, saying it will be added to the mobile app ‘in the coming months.’ US customers looking to book JetBlue flights with Venmo are provided with a pop-up window that has a QR code for them to scan on the payment app

When travelers book their real flight, all the middle seats will appear taken, leaving only window and aisle spaces as options.

‘Did you know with budget airlines, if you click random seat allocation, they will intentionally put you in the middle seat in the hopes that you pay money to get out of it?’ He asked in a video posted on his Instagram.

In the video, Tually demonstrates how to avoid this when booking a Ryanair flight from Bologna, Italy to Barcelona, Spain online.

He would have to pay a $9 fee to choose his seat. But this hack allowed him to secure a window seat for free.

First, he looked at the flight’s seating map to see how many middle seats were available on the plane. In this case, there were 10 of them.

Then, he pretended to purchase 10 tickets for this flight.

‘Now the website is going to ask for every passenger’s name so just slam a bunch of letters in there and continue on,’ Tually explained.

‘Next up, go to seat selection and select all the middle seats or all the seats that you definitely do not want to be sitting in,’ he said. ‘Then click ‘continue.”

This causes the Ryanair website to hold those seats for 10 to 15 minutes, appearing unavailable to other customers trying to book a seat.

‘And that’s when you book yours,’ Tually said. Now, you can pull up the website in a different tab and actually purchase your real ticket.

‘When you go to check in with your ticket, you can see that there’s no more middle seats,’ he said.

‘So click that random seat allocation… and just like that. It only took me two minutes and now I have a window seat.’

This hack is most easily executed on a computer, ‘and even easier if you do it closer to check-in as fewer seats are available, Tually added.

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