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US airline JetBlue is selling more than 300 flights and six holiday packages on internet auction site eBay.

The flights are to more than 20 mainly US destinations including New York, Boston and southern California.

Harlan Platt, a finance professor at Northeastern University in Boston who follows the airline industry, said the auctions would provide “word-of-mouth” advertising for the discount carrier.

All travel must be completed by Oct. 6, JetBlue said.

The auction site is at jetblue.com/ebay

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JetBlue auction holidays and flights on eBay

WASHINGTON - Continental Airlines today applauded an order issued by the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Chief Counsel to stop the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) plan for auctioning slots at Newark Liberty International Airport, which DOT had announced would be held on Sept. 3. The FAA Chief Counsel said he acted under the authority from the FAA Acting Administrator and found Continental and other airline protesters of the auction “demonstrated compelling reasons to maintain the status quo” not allowing slot auctions while the FAA considers the DOT auction plan and makes a final decision on the airline protests of the auction.

“We are pleased that this stay was granted by the FAA’s top attorney and believe that it shows that the slot auction faces a host of serious legal difficulties,” said a Continental spokesman. “With this order, at least for the time being, the FAA avoids other litigation that it could not have won.”

In issuing its order, the FAA Chief Counsel said that Continental and the other airline protesters have a “substantial case” that “provides the basis for deliberate investigation” by the FAA of the serious concerns about the auction’s illegality.

The DOT had announced a schedule for the FAA to complete an auction while Congress is away from Washington in their home districts to preclude Congressional intervention. The FAA stay has the potential to give the DOT and FAA more time to review and consider the widespread and virtually unanimous opposition to the auction plan and to evaluate lawful alternatives to auctions that would actually reduce congestion and delays.

Continental expressed thanks to U.S. Senators Murray, Bond, Lautenberg, Menendez, Schumer and Clinton, the entire New Jersey Congressional Delegation, Governors Corzine and Patterson and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, all of whom helped Continental to make the case that slot auctions are not in the best interests of the American traveling public.

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Continental Airlines Applauds FAA Order to Stop Newark Slot Auction