ORLANDO, Fla. — Channel 9 was there Wednesday as JetBlue cut the ribbon to its new call center on its campus near Orlando International Airport.
Officials said the call center will bring 500 new jobs to the area over the next five years.
Since 2000, JetBlue has rapidly expanded to become the third-largest airline at OIA with 60 flights a day and 1,400 employees, many of them staffing the airline's training center at JetBlue University.
Now, JetBlue plans to build its own 200-room hotel, a lodge for crew members in Orlando for training.
The campus has three flight simulators and every JetBlue crew member flies to Orlando once a year to do training in them.
Employees hired to work the JetBlue call center in Orlando will be trained at the airline's university, but they'll work from home once training is complete.