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JetBlue eyes European launch to grow Boston and New York bases

Air
James Chapple
6 March 2019

JetBlue has said European routes would provide an opportunity to grow its Boston and New York bases and deploy its new A321 aircraft.

JetBlue followed its London-Boston route launch with a bid for rival Spirit Airlines

The US budget carrier’s British-born chief executive Robin Hayes, a former British Airways executive, will be in London on April 11 to deliver a speech at the Aviation Club.


Staff are understood to have been briefed on meeting a day earlier discussing the airline’s “vision and strategy”.


“We plan to announce our decision on the long range version of the A321 in 2019,” said the airline in a statement on Monday (March 4).


“Potential routes to Europe could provide us an opportunity to grow our focus cities of Boston and New York as we consider the best use of our aircraft from a margin perspective in those cities.”