A JetBlue Airways airplane lands close to the Air Site visitors Management tower on the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Worldwide Airport on Oct. 7, 2025 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
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JetBlue stated it’s ending seasonal service between Newark and Los Angeles and Las Vegas. It stated workers might bid or switch to different bases.
The airline is already the highest provider at Fort Lauderdale, although it was beforehand second to Spirit Airways, the South Florida-based discounter that collapsed on Might 2. Opponents have additionally added service to the area.
JetBlue earlier Wednesday stated it will broaden every day, cross-country flights with its lie-flat enterprise class, Mint, from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to San Diego on Nov. 19 and can add extra Mint-equipped flights this winter to San Francisco and Los Angeles.
That may embrace as much as eight every day Fort Lauderdale to Los Angeles flights and three a day to San Francisco.
Mint-equipped planes are profitable and people seats carry a giant premium. A one-way Mint seat from Fort Lauderdale to Los Angeles on Jan. 10 topped $3,000 and went as excessive as $4,522 whereas a primary coach ticket on that route was going for as little as $244.
The JetBlue executives advised workers Wednesday that they know the Newark reductions increase questions on their plans at LaGuardia Airport, the place JetBlue’s one-time acquisition goal, Spirit, operated out of the Marine Air Terminal till it shut down.
“Any future alternatives that might come from the LGA slot public sale course of stay unsure and would take time to develop,” they stated. “We should make choices based mostly on the operation we all know we are going to fly, not on potential outcomes which will or could not materialize sooner or later.”
JetBlue executives have known as out the excessive prices of working at airports like LaGuardia.
“We’re a lot, a lot smaller at LaGuardia than we had been 4 years in the past as a result of it is a $40 [enplanement fee] airport for us. And the fountain is admittedly fairly, however … I believe folks would fairly have low fares than a very nice fountain,” St. George stated at a JPMorgan trade convention in March, referring to the 25-foot-tall water characteristic within the airport’s Terminal B.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates LaGuardia and Newark airports, didn’t instantly remark.
