JetBlue Airways chief executive Dave Barger expects the US low-cost carrier will begin co-operating commercially with its new minority shareholder Lufthansa by the end of this year.

Lufthansa last month completed the purchase of a 19% stake in New York-based JetBlue. In announcing Lufthansa’s intent to acquire the stake in December, Lufthansa chief executive Wolfgang Mayrhuber indicated he would not have pursued the deal unless co-operation between the two carriers was likely but said details had not yet been discussed.

JetBlue and Lufthansa have since begun talking about how they may cooperate and details will likely be revealed over the next few months.

“We’ve only just begun the commercial discussions on what that could look like,” Barger said in a video interview with Airline Business. “But I’d be very surprised if we’re not doing things jointly in some manner over the course of 2008.”

Barger adds: “The

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