A JetBlue Airways Airbus A321 airplane departs from Los Angeles International Airport en way to New York connected Oct. 17, 2025 successful Los Angeles, California.
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JetBlue Airways is pushing its fleet of single-aisle planes deeper into Europe adjacent twelvemonth with seasonal regular flights to Milan, Italy, and Barcelona, Spain, from Boston, its latest bid to triumph implicit higher-spending vacationers.
Daily work from Boston to Barcelona is acceptable to debut connected April 16, and the regular Milan formation from Boston is scheduled to statesman May 11, the hose said Wednesday.
U.S. carriers — from JetBlue's caller earn-and-burn miles partner United Airlines to smaller carriers similar Alaska Airlines — person been adding international destinations that bid higher fares and often person much premium seats connected committee than shorter home flights to assistance thrust profits.
JetBlue has been reworking its web to cut unprofitable routes and adhd others, particularly caller destinations served by planes with its profitable Mint concern class, arsenic it seeks to stem much than 5 years of losses. Demand from airlines for much spacious, premium seats has been truthful precocious successful caller years it has contributed to bottlenecks of caller airplane deliveries.
The New York-based hose past period said its first lounge astatine John F. Kennedy International Airport, which it plans to unfastened this year, volition beryllium accessible for trans-Atlantic Mint customers, among travelers.
JetBlue's archetypal trans-Atlantic formation debuted successful 2021 with a nonstop way to London, and it has since added work from some New York and Boston to Paris; Amsterdam; Edinburgh, Scotland; and Dublin.
The caller flights spell connected merchantability connected Thursday.
JetBlue's additions amusement however airlines are flying newer Airbus narrow-body planes farther.
It volition usage its A321LR, oregon long-range, Airbus jets for the Barcelona and Milan flights. The Milan formation volition beryllium the longest successful JetBlue's network, astatine astir 9 hours westbound and astir 7 hours and 45 eastbound, a spokesperson said, though times tin alteration based connected upwind conditions and different factors.
Those planes transportation less travelers than ample twin-aisle jets similar Boeing 777s but are cheaper to run since they necessitate little fuel, among different things. American Airlines plans to debut its Airbus A321XLR, an ultra-long scope mentation of its fashionable 321 plane, successful December and yet alert it to Edinburgh from some New York and its Philadelphia hub adjacent March.
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