NEW YORK — JetBlue plans to launch 24 new routes later this year aimed at \generating cash and capturing passenger traffic on a variety of new, nonstop routes – many never flown before by the airline. The flights include over a half dozen from Newark Airport to the Caribbean. Each route plays to JetBlue’s strengths in the airline’s focus cities, in Florida, in Latin American and the Caribbean or on cross-country – or transcontinental – flying.
Every market has been uniquely identified as one in which JetBlue anticipates increasing demand for leisure travel. All new flights take off in November and December with seats on sale now.
“This is the latest example of JetBlue’s ability to be nimble and play offense as we quickly adjust to new customer behaviors and booking patterns,” said Scott Laurence, head of revenue and planning, JetBlue. “This latest series of new routes – even in the current environment – advances our revised network strategy, returns more aircraft to the skies and doubles down on our ability to generate more cash sooner.”
New Routes
The new markets announced maximize revenue potential across JetBlue’s existing domestic and international network by:
- Introducing all-new nonstop destinations from four JetBlue focus cities, plus expanded Mint service in Newark and Los Angeles.
- Growing JetBlue’s New York City presence in Newark with more than a half dozen new routes to the Caribbean.
- Building out the airline’s new Los Angeles focus city with expanded domestic and – for the first time in JetBlue’s history – international service at LAX.
- Offering unique, new nonstop western U.S. destinations from Fort Lauderdale not served by any other airline.
- Connecting a variety of new city pairs across the Southeast, Florida, the West Coast and the Caribbean and Latin America.
JetBlue will reactivate some temporarily parked aircraft to support the new routes. Alongside the rest of the JetBlue network, these new markets will be regularly evaluated. The airline will remain flexible, allowing market demand to determine how long a particular route continues to operate.
Most new JetBlue routes will be operated using JetBlue’s Airbus A320 aircraft (Photo above).
ADVANCING THE FOCUS CITY STRATEGY
Service between Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) and: |
Aruba Queen Beatrix International Airport (AUA)* Launching November 19, 2020 | 1x daily | MINT on select flights |
Cancún International Airport (CUN)* Launching November 19, 2020 | 2x daily |
Montego Bay, Jamaica Sangster International Airport (MBJ)* Launching November 19, 2020 | 1x daily |
Nassau, Bahamas Lynden Pindling International Airport (NAS)* Launching November 19, 2020 | 1x daily |
Turks and Caicos Providenciales International Airport (PLS)* Launching November 19, 2020 | 1x daily |
Punta Cana International Airport (PUJ)* Launching November 19, 2020 | 1x daily |
Sint Maarten Princess Juliana International Airport (SXM)* Launching November 19, 2020 | 1x daily | MINT on select flights |
Service between Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and: |
Charleston International Airport (CHS) Launching December 18, 2020 | 1x daily |
Cancún International Airport (CUN)* Launching November 19, 2020 | 2x daily |
Liberia, Costa Rica Daniel Oduber Quirós International Airport (LIR)* Launching December 18, 2020 | 2x weekly | MINT on select flights |
Palm Beach International Airport (PBI) Launching November 19, 2020 | 1x daily | MINT on select flights |
Raleigh–Durham International Airport (RDU) Launching December 18, 2020 | 1x daily |
Richmond International Airport (RIC) Launching December 18, 2020 | 1x daily |
San José, Costa Rica Juan Santamaría International Airport (SJO)* Launching December 18, 2020 | 1x daily |
Service between Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (FLL) and: |
Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport (BZN) Launching December 18, 2020 | 2x weekly |
Palm Springs International Airport (PSP) Launching December 18, 2020 | 2x weekly |
Service between San Juan Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport (SJU) and: |
Raleigh–Durham International Airport (RDU) Launching November 19, 2020 | 1x daily |
MORE FLORIDA FLYING
Service between Tampa International Airport (TPA) and: |
Cancún International Airport (CUN)* Launching November 19, 2020 | 1x daily |
Richmond International Airport (RIC) Launching November 19, 2020 | 1x daily |
Service between Fort Myers Southwest Florida International Airport (RSW) and: |
Raleigh–Durham International Airport (RDU) Launching November 19, 2020 | 1x daily |
LARGER IN LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN
Service between Cancún International Airport (CUN) and: |
Raleigh–Durham International Airport (RDU)* Launching November 19, 2020 | 1x daily |
San Francisco International Airport (SFO)* Launching November 19, 2020 | 2x daily |
Service between Montego Bay, Jamaica Sangster International Airport (MBJ) and: |
Raleigh–Durham International Airport (RDU)* Launching November 19, 2020 | 1x daily |
EXPANDING TRANSCON COMFORT
Service between Las Vegas McCarran International Airport (LAS) and: |
Richmond International Airport (RIC) Launching December 18, 2020 | 1x daily |
*This service is subject to receipt of government operating authority.