Happy Jettisoning: JetBlue Offers Refunds to the Newly Unemployed

JetBlue, the airline everyone loved to love up until that whole trapped-on-a-plane-for-nine-hours fiasco is trying once again to get in the good graces of honest, hard-working Americans. With the economy in the dumps and fewer people taking to the skies, the enterprising minds at the airline are now offering refunds to anyone who loses their job. Call it an insurance policy of sorts for belt-tighteners who are thinking of foregoing that spring trip to Cancun, lest they lose their employment.

As always, there's some fine print to read and some hoops to jump through (Faxing an notarized form? What is this, 1990?). For the most part, though, it seems like the airline is making a genuine effort to coax jittery citizens to get on with their lives, come Madoff or Stanford.

The only clause that makes us a bit nervous:

If request for refund is not approved JetBlue will still cancel the flight(s), charge a $100 cancellation fee and place any remaining amount in a voucher/credit shell, valid toward future air-only transportation on JetBlue for up to one year

If you're newly out of work and want to recoup the cost of an upcoming trip, just make sure you definitely want to cancel your tickets and are willing to part with $100 if they don't find your hoop-jumping up to snuff.