JetBlue has announced several strategic changes to grow across New England by adding 20 percent more seats in the region by this winter. The airline will add more flights from Boston Logan International Airport and other New England airports; plus, it will launch service for the first time from Manchester-Boston Regional Airport in Manchester, NH.
Manchester will be the 10th airport with JetBlue service in New England, including recently announced service from Presque Isle, ME, which launches in September. JetBlue flights from Manchester are set to launch in January with service to Florida, including year-round daily flights to Orlando and winter seasonal service to Fort Lauderdale and Fort Myers. Manchester flights are on sale now.
JetBlue will also add more flights from Boston to a range of destinations, including Aruba, Barbados, Cancún, Grand Cayman, Fort Lauderdale, Fort Myers, Jacksonville, Liberia, Miami, Montego Bay, Nassau, Orlando, West Palm Beach, Punta Cana, Providenciales, Sarasota, St. Maarten, St. Lucia, Tampa and more. Additionally, the airline will begin operating a second daily nonstop flight between Boston and Phoenix, and for the first time on the route will offer the airline’s Mint service, which will be available on all flights between the two cities.
The airline will also experience significant growth in Providence, RI, where JetBlue seats will nearly triple this winter compared to last, while Hartford will see a 30 percent increase in JetBlue seats over the same period. Added with the new service in Manchester, the airline will average 18 new daily departures from New England this winter, with six new routes between New England and Florida.
In New York, the airline will launch additional service in Buffalo, Albany and Syracuse. Beginning in October, a nonstop service from Buffalo Niagara International Airport to Palm Beach International Airport will operate on a seasonal basis. Designed to give customers in Upstate New York more options to connect to Florida in the winter months, Buffalo and Albany will each see a second daily flight added this winter to Fort Lauderdale and Orlando, while Syracuse will have a second daily service to Orlando.
Starting this October, JetBlue will also launch flights for the first time from Long Island MacArthur Airport, offering daily flights to Orlando and four-times weekly flights to Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach.
By February, JetBlue will average more than 225 daily flights from Florida, bringing the airline’s average peak daily departures from the state up eight percent compared to the same time last year.
JetBlue has replaced more than half of its Embraer E190 fleet with Airbus A220 aircraft. Customers on the A220 enjoy the new 2-by-3 seating configuration with wide coach seats, extra-large overhead bins, bigger windows, custom mood lighting and USB-C, USB-A and AC power outlets at every seat.
JetBlue added that it will reduce flying on underperforming routes across its network, with a focus on improving reliability of the airline’s operation.
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