A new targeted but widely available Citi Merchant Offer is out on select cards that is good for $50 back when you spend $200 or more with JetBlue. That could be a great way to save on an upcoming flight reservation. One word of warning: you’ll want the fare for a single passenger to be a total of $200 or more — my purchase a few months ago for multiple passengers posted as separate charges and did not trigger the offer.
The Deal
- A new Citi Merchant Offer is out for JetBlue: Earn $50 back on a purchase of $200 or more by February 28, 2026
Key Terms
- Expires February 28, 2026
- If a merchant processes your online order in separate transactions, you may only earn an award on the first processed transaction if it meets all other offer criteria.
Quick Thoughts
This is a great offer for anyone planning upcoming JetBlue travel, particularly if you’re able to stack it with one of their promotions. As someone who completed the 25 for 25 promotion, I find myself looking toward JetBlue more and more, and I could see making use of this offer.
That said, I tried using a similar offer over the summer while booking some of our JetBlue flights and only just realized that I failed to trigger the offers.
In my case, the flight I booked was for four passengers and it came to a total of about $493. Unfortunately, the charges came through separately for each passenger.
I hadn’t even thought about it at the time, but as I was checking my offer history just now, I noticed that I have a couple of notices of having earned $0.00:
I clicked for the details and I see that the problem is that “each” purchase was only for $123.31, which apparently didn’t meet the purchase criteria of $200 or more.
I should have known better, as many airlines separate the charges by passenger. And the terms of the offer do say “Purchase any Jetblue flight valued at $200 or more” — in hindsight, I suppose it is pretty clear that the individual flight you buy must cost $200 or more. I hadn’t even thought twice about it since I was thinking of it in terms of the total price I was paying at JetBlue.com.
I then realized that I made the same mistake when buying a Jetblue flight on the Double Cash card. Learn from the error of my ways: make sure that you use this on a flight where a single ticket costs $200 or more.
In my case, that’s kind of annoying as a family traveler since I’d want to be paying with separate cards if I were buying a ticket that costs $200 per passenger x 4 passengers, but I couldn’t easily buy separate tickets for my kids. I’m therefore not highly confident that I’ll put this offer to use, but I’ll save it nonetheless, just in case.
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Citi offers have the same problem with Macys.com. If an order is split into 2 shipments, you’ll see 2 charges and they’re treated separately.
That’s a constant problem with Macy’s for portals and all card offers.
One way to use this credit would be to buy a single $200 flight for yourself. Cancel it after 24 hours and you’ll get JetBlue credit – then use that credit towards the real flight you want for your family. You can apply JetBlue credit towards anyone so long as you’re booking it out of the account that has the credit.
This is the same hack that came to my mind. A few additions.