I'd be shocked if there was an acquisition of Jetblue by United. I think that's just a future promise to get Jetblue to give up JFK gates and slots for whatever frequent flyer collusion scheme they are going to try and do to boost passenger sharing. You might see a code share, or Jetblue joins Star Alliance, but I highly doubt an acquisition of an airline with $8B of debt is something United wants to deal with just for some gates at JFK, especially since there is already a EWR hub with 430 daily flights.

Someone should make a Polymarket bet on a full acquisition of Jetblue by United. Would be interesting to see where people put their money.