Icelandair vs JetBlue
JetBlue scores 7.8/10 against Icelandair at 6/10 on seat, screens, lounge and fare.
By Jon Miksis · cabin data verified · fares for travel November 8–14, 2026
Best product each one flies
Scored on what can be verified. Service, food and ground recovery are absent deliberately: they need someone in the seat, and they live in the reviews rather than here.
One caveat on the Value line, stated rather than buried: Value is computed from business fares, and a carrier with too few of them does not get a Value score at all. Where you see a dash, we have fewer than three priced business routes for that airline and did not want to invent a figure from one or two — so its product score is the mean of three dimensions rather than four, and it is not directly comparable to a score built on hundreds of fares. The airlines with the most fares behind them are named on the business-class ranking.
Icelandair
737 MAX / 757 (Saga Premium)
- Seat
- 0/10
- IFE
- 4/10
- Lounge & bags
- 10/10
- Value
- 10/10
- Product score
- 6/10
JetBlue
A321LR / A321neo (Mint Suite)
- Seat
- 10/10
- IFE
- 10/10
- Lounge & bags
- 5/10
- Value
- 6/10
- Product score
- 7.8/10
Dimension by dimension
Seat: JetBlue
0/10 on the 737 MAX / 757 (Saga Premium) against 10/10 on the A321LR / A321neo (Mint Suite).
IFE: JetBlue
Screens, connectivity and power: 4/10 against 10/10.
Lounge & bags: Icelandair
What the fare includes before you board: 10/10 against 5/10.
Value: Icelandair
Median premium over the cheapest carrier on the same route: 10/10 against 6/10.
Where both were priced on the same dates
Every fare is November 8–14, 2026, so a difference between two rows is a difference between two airlines and nothing else. These are economy fares, while the cabin scores above describe the business product — read them as how each airline prices against its competitors, not as what its business seat costs.
| Route | Cabin | Icelandair | JetBlue | Cheaper |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BOS → CDG | economy | $594 | $729 | Icelandair by $135 |
| BOS → LHR | economy | $683 | $822 | Icelandair by $139 |
| MCO → LHR | economy | $785 | $1067 | Icelandair by $282 |
| RDU → CDG | economy | $835 | $947 | Icelandair by $112 |
| RDU → LHR | economy | $1005 | $1056 | Icelandair by $51 |
| JFK → CDG | business | $2336 | $5510 | Icelandair by $3174 |
| JFK → LHR | business | $2338 | $5143 | Icelandair by $2805 |
| BOS → CDG | business | $2755 | $5510 | Icelandair by $2755 |
| MCO → CDG | business | $2852 | $6085 | Icelandair by $3233 |
| ORD → CDG | business | $2852 | $6015 | Icelandair by $3163 |
| BOS → LHR | business | $2913 | $5239 | Icelandair by $2326 |
| RDU → LHR | business | $3173 | $5914 | Icelandair by $2741 |
| RDU → CDG | business | $4063 | $6045 | Icelandair by $1982 |
Common questions
- Is Icelandair or JetBlue better to Europe?
- JetBlue scores 7.8/10 against Icelandair at 6/10 on seat, screens, lounge and fare. On the four dimensions we can verify, Icelandair wins 2 and JetBlue wins 2. Service and food are not scored here because they cannot be read off a spec sheet.
- Which is cheaper, Icelandair or JetBlue?
- On the 13 routes where both were priced for the same week (November 8–14, 2026), Icelandair was cheaper on 13 and JetBlue on 0. Every pair of fares is the same departure and return date in the same cabin, so the difference is the airline rather than the dates or the cabin.
- Does the aircraft change the answer?
- Not on seat: both carriers fly a consistent product across the aircraft we have verified.
- Has Jon flown either of these?
- Neither, so this page is product facts and fares only. Any review we publish of either will be labeled Researched until that changes.
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