--- title: JetBlue Is Capping Prices for Direct Flights Out of Florida at $99 Before Irma Hits description: As Hurricane Irma bears down on Florida, JetBlue is helping people evacuate by capping airfare at $99 for flights leaving the state. authors: - name: Brad Tuttle role: Senior Editor url: https://money.com/author/brad-tuttle/ bio: Brad Tuttle is a former senior editor at Money with over 10 years’ experience covering a vast number of personal finance topics, including careers, cars, travel, budgeting, investing, insurance, credit cards, consumer psychology, real estate, banking, and shopping and deals. education: Columbia University School of Journalism, MS at_money_since: 2014 articles: 366 covers: - Lifestyle - Banking - Business - Career Advice - Credit - Credit Cards - Economy and Politics - Education - Health and Wellness - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Loans - Mortgages - Personal Finance - Pets - Professional Services - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes - Technology social: - https://twitter.com/bradrtuttle - https://linkedin.com/in/brad-tuttle-834b225 former_staff: true published: '2017-09-06T20:28:50.000Z' modified: '2024-04-17T06:45:42.000Z' section: Lifestyle tags: - Airlines - hurricane irma - Hurricanes - JetBlue - natural disaster word_count: 228 canonical: https://money.com/hurricane-irma-jetblue-flights-99-dollars/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![A JetBlue aircraft comes in to land at Long Beach Airport in Long Beach](https://img.money.com/2017/09/170907-jetblue-flights-irma.jpg) As Hurricane Irma hammers the Caribbean and could soon be wreaking havoc in Florida, JetBlue Airways is helping people evacuate by capping airfare at $99 for flights leaving the state. As [Yahoo Finance](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/jetblue-caps-ticket-prices-florida-99-ahead-hurricane-irma-173232462.html) first reported, JetBlue is charging a maximum of $99, with all mandatory fees and taxes included, for nonstop flights departing Florida, and no higher than $159 for connecting flights leaving the state, in the week ahead. If there is a seat available on any JetBlue flight departing Florida now through next Wednesday, passengers can book at the prices cited above. The airline offers direct flights out of Florida from Daytona Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Fort Myers, Jacksonville, Orlando, Sarasota, Tampa, and West Palm Beach. After sifting through some flights, many routes leaving Florida late on Wednesday and throughout the day on Thursday appear to be fully booked. But we found plenty of availability for Friday and Saturday, and prices on direct flights were all set at a flat $99. (Normally, such routes booked at the last minute could easily cost $300 or more.) JetBlue and other airlines have also begun allowing [passengers to change flights free of charge](https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/flights/todayinthesky/2017/09/05/hurricane-irma-airlines-expand-change-fee-waivers-include-florida-airports/634535001/) on many routes to Florida departing in the coming days. 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