It has been a long time since the second destination for the airline was announced.
The airline will begin flights from New York to Paris in the summer of 2023, followed by flights from Boston in the fall.
The airline didn't give any information about start dates or schedules.
More than three years have passed since JetBlue first announced it would operate flights from New York to London. The Boston service was delayed due to staffing and supply chain constraints, but flights between JFK and London started last year.
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The second European destination will be announced by the end of the year, with service set to start next summer, according to an August interview with the company.
The announcement will be made in the next couple of months. You have to give people enough time to book it.
The airline wanted to fly to the new city from both New York and Boston, but would have to start from the other.
He said that the teams were looking at different options. We have to start with one since we will fly both JFK and Boston.
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The upcoming announcement has been teased a few times but has otherwise been short on details, with delivery delays from both Boeing and Airbus continuing to stymies network planners.
The Boston-London inaugural was pushed back a month because of the aircraft delays.
In August, he said that they had planned it conservatively. Even that wasn't conservative enough.
With the latest delivery slots scheduled, the airline is in a better position to expand.
A total of seven A321LRs are expected to be received by the airline over the course of the next two years. It has an additional 13 aircraft on order, which will be delivered in 2024.
As its long-range, narrow-body fleet grows, the airline wants to penetrate deeper into Europe. The president of the airline said in October that the XLR was opening more options.
Geraghty said that it would give them more access into central and Eastern Europe.
She said at the time that the airline would not look to other U.S. cities for its European service.
She said at the time that it was New York and Boston. Is that applicable to other destinations? It's possible. The sweet spots for the aircraft are New York and Boston.
The A321LR can reach several European destinations from New York or Boston. The real-world working range is determined by the specific configuration of the plane. SAS and Aer Lingus operate the A321LRC.
On the first flight to London, you can see that there is more to London than meets the eye.
The 700 nautical miles of range offered by the A321XLR makes it possible for the airline to operate from bases in Florida to much of South America.
Ultra-low-cost carrier Frontier Airlines, which has 18 of the A321XLRs on order, plans to use the narrow-body jets for a trans-Atlantic expansion.
Frontier CEO Barry Biffle was asked about the airline's plans in an October interview. We're looking at them.
Biffle said that most of the northeastern United States could go to Europe. We are in Boston, Philadelphia, and Islip in New York.
The airline's top-of-the-line Mint Suites and Studios can be found in the A321LRCs.
The seats in the 22 Mint Suites are in a herringbone pattern. All of the suites have a sliding door that closes all the way. There is a 17-inch screen, plenty of storage space, and an integrated wireless phone charging station. There are two Mint Studios at the front of the cabin with extra space, two windows, a belted side seat, and a 22-inch screen. The studios have a higher price than the suite.
Extra legroom seats are included in 24 of the 114 "core" economy seats. The airline says the seats are "shoulder-friendly" There are organized seat pockets, a standard AC power port and a 10-inch screen in the core seats.
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