JetBlue has assigned a new vice president to its education and training program known as JetBlue University. The position will be filled by Jeff Winter.
JetBlue University has three locations: Orlando, New York, and Salt Lake City. From there, the airline offers training programs for new employees. It also provides recurrent training for JetBlue’s ground, flight line, and maintenance personnel, and provides pilot training services for several airlines around the world.
Winter joined JetBlue in 2015 and has since served in a variety of roles, from flight operations to training and project management. Most recently he served as director of flight operations planning and analysis. There he was in charge of leading the business management and labor relations teams.
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Prior to joining JetBlue, Jeff served for more than 32 years in the U.S. Navy, primarily as an FA-18 pilot and instructor. He was also in charge of strategy development and counterterrorism plans at Special Operations Command.
Winter will be based in the Orlando, Florida, headquarters and will be responsible for overseeing the company’s programs and facilities from there.
Warren Christie, president of JetBlue University, said in a statement that «It is a pleasure to welcome Jeff to our team. With his experience, he will bring an invaluable wealth of experience to our training program, and to our crewmembers.»
Winter added to this, «We have ambitious hiring and training plans for this year. I will be looking to work with our team to ensure we are doing everything we can to make these plans a success.»
JetBlue Airways is headquartered in the Long Island City neighborhood of the New York borough of Queens, in addition to corporate offices in Utah and Florida. It is the seventh-largest airline in the United States by passenger volume. Interestingly, it does not operate Boeing aircraft: its fleet consists of 60 Embraer E190s (it was the type’s launch customer), 10 Airbus A220s (which will fully replace the E190s in 2026), and 214 A320 family aircraft in their neo and ceo variants.
