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JetBlue Airways appears to be gearing up to announce plans for its first service across the Atlantic as soon as Wednesday, an expansion that the New York-based carrier views an an opportunity to undercut entrenched rivals with its cheaper business-class service.
The low-cost airline is scheduled to hold an all hands meeting with staff at New Yorks John F. Kennedy International Airport along with viewing parties at some of its main hubs around the U.S. on Wednesday afternoon, according to a company invitation obtained by CNBC. A save-the-date email announcing the April 10 event featured a background pattern similar to upholstery on Londons subway. Buttons featuring JetBlues logo and iconic London sights of Big Ben and the London Eye were sent to JetBlue offices, according to one employee.
The companys shares jumped by about 4% in after-hours trading on the news.
JetBlue may add service to London but its plans could include other routes to European cities from its New York and Boston hubs, important business travel markets.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/09/jetblue-appears-to-be-gearing-up-to-announce-service-across-the-atlantic.html
SoCalNative
(4,613 posts)they're going to need to add a business class section on their transatlantic flights, or re-do their seating so that every passenger has fully reclining sleep seats.
brooklynite
(94,851 posts)SoCalNative
(4,613 posts)but they don't have those out of all airports. They have them on their NYC flights out of LAX but not Burbank.....
DFW
(54,465 posts)Start reasonably priced nonstop flights between Boston, Atlanta or Dallas and Düsseldorf, Germany. The flights here out of Newark and Atlanta are almost always full, and usually on old, tired aircraft, especially since Air Berlin folded. Düsseldorf as a business/fashion/industrial hub is huge. Trains run from the Frankfurt airport directly to Düsseldorf practically every half hour, and they are so full that if you don't have an advance seat reservation, you stand a good chance of standing in the corridor the whole way.
I would jump to Jet Blue in a heartbeat in that case, and I am platinum-for-life with Sky Team (Delta/Air-France-KLM). The Delta flights from Düsseldorf to Atlanta and back are convenient, but they are SO popular that they are priced sky-high if not booked many months in advance, and they are full to the gills on old 767 planes.
brooklynite
(94,851 posts)JetBlue Airways on Wednesday said it is planning to launch its first service to London in 2021, an aggressive move by the low-cost airline thats aimed at luring lucrative corporate travelers away from entrenched rivals that already dominate air travel across the Atlantic.
Major international airlines like Delta, American, United and their European partners currently account for most of the trans-Atlantic market. More than three-quarters of trans-Atlantic service last year was operated by airlines in the largest alliances among carriers, according to consulting firm ICF.
JetBlue, which has been debating offering trans-Atlantic service for about three years, currently services the Caribbean, Mexico, Central America and northern South America, in addition to its U.S. network.
The airline hinted it would add other destinations in Europe. Multiple-daily flights from New York and Boston to London would begin in 2021, using a long-range version of the Airbus A321.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/10/jetblue-finally-announces-plans-to-fly-to-london.html