How Many Planes Does JetBlue Have? The 2026 Fleet, and the Two New Jets It Won’t Fly

JetBlue has 298 planes. That is the operating fleet in its quarterly report to the SEC for September 30, 2026: 129 Airbus A320s, 67 A220s, 63 A321s and 39 A321neos.

Every one is an Airbus. The count leaves out two brand-new A321XLRs that JetBlue owns, has parked and plans to sell, which tells you a lot about where the airline is heading.

How Many Planes Does JetBlue Have?

298, as of September 30, 2026. That figure includes jets temporarily out of service but expected back, such as the two grounded that day waiting for Pratt & Whitney engines.

JetBlue owns almost all of them: 288 are owned and only 10 are on operating leases. Its owned count includes jets it sold and leased back in deals that did not count as sales under accounting rules.

JetBlue’s fleet, type by type

JetBlue flies four Airbus types today. The table shows how each has moved over the last two years, including the Embraer E190s that are now gone.

The Airbus A320 is still the backbone, with 129 jets. It is also the oldest part of the fleet: at the end of 2025, JetBlue’s 10 original-cabin A320s averaged 25 years old and its 119 “Restyled” A320s averaged 20.

All the growth is the Airbus A220-300, a 140-seat jet that replaced the 100-seat E190. JetBlue had 42 at the end of 2024 and 67 by September 2026, with eight delivered in the first nine months of 2026.

The A321s carry JetBlue’s premium cabin. At the end of 2025, 56 of them had Mint, its lie-flat business class: 35 A321s, 10 A321neos and 11 A321neoLRs, the long-range version.

The A321neo count rose by two in 2026 without a single neo delivery. Those were the two A321neos with Mint that the 2025 annual report listed as delivered but not yet in service.

Why the numbers differ

Search this question and you will see figures from 284 to 301. Each comes from a different date or a different rule about which airframes count.

288: last year’s annual report

288 is the fleet at December 31, 2025, the number in JetBlue’s 2025 Form 10-K and in many guides written since. It was right for that date, and it is still the number in the latest annual report.

That 288 left out 15 jets JetBlue still had on hand: 11 parked E190s waiting to be sold or returned, one A321XLR it had agreed to sell, one permanently parked A320 and two A321neos not yet in service.

Higher counts: every airframe with a JetBlue tail

Fleet-tracking sites list airframes, not the operating fleet. They usually include new A220s from the day they arrive and jets JetBlue has pulled out of service to sell, so they tend to run a few above the filing.

296: what the FAA registry says

The FAA’s aircraft registry database, downloaded on November 6, 2026, lists 281 Airbus jets registered to JetBlue under its correct name. Four more A321s are filed as “Jet Blue Airways Corp”, and one A320 under a misspelled “Jetbule Airways Corporation”.

Another 10 JetBlue A320s are registered to Bank of Utah as trustee, an arrangement often used for leased jets, and every jet JetBlue leased at the end of 2025 was an A320. That makes 296, but a registration is paperwork and runs ahead of or behind the operating fleet: the registry already shows 70 A220s against 67 in service on September 30.

The A321XLR is the longest-range single-aisle jet Airbus makes, the type airlines are now using on the world’s longest narrowbody flights. JetBlue’s longest-range jets remain its 11 A321neoLRs.

Where JetBlue’s fleet is going

JetBlue’s order book is almost entirely A220s for the rest of the decade. Its third-quarter 2026 filing shows 77 aircraft still to come: 33 A220s and 44 A321neos.

The timing is lopsided. Four A220s are due in the rest of 2026, seven in 2027, nine in 2028 and 10 in 2029, while 42 of the 44 A321neos are scheduled after 2030.

That gap is deliberate. In July 2024, JetBlue agreed with Airbus to push 44 A321neos from 2025 to 2029 back to 2030 and beyond, moving about $3.0 billion of spending out of the decade and keeping its older A320s flying longer instead.

Delivery dates have slipped before. Between January and October 2026, JetBlue’s schedule cut its 2026 A220 deliveries from 14 to 12 and its 2028 deliveries from 11 to nine, citing recent delay notices from Airbus.

How JetBlue’s fleet compares

At 298 jets, JetBlue is a mid-sized US airline. Southwest flies 803 planes, every one a Boeing 737, as our count of how many planes Southwest has shows.

The big three are in another league once their regional partners are added: American had 1,609 planes in June 2026 and United 1,575 in September. Even counting mainline jets only, United’s 1,143 is almost four times JetBlue’s fleet, as our count of how many planes United has shows.

For a closer comparison, Alaska Airlines now counts 424 planes after taking over Hawaiian. Where each airline lands by passengers and revenue is in our ranking of the biggest airlines in the US.