JetBlue to launch low-cost flights from London to New York and Boston in 2021

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• S says:

  11 Apr11 April 04:00

  How “low cost” is low cost? I can already fly from London to New York for about £250 on the lowest fare, if planning well in advance.

• Dean B says:

  11 Apr11 April 05:43

  JetBlue already has shorthaul international flights.

  I flew to Barbados with them from Florida in March, and I think they have various other Caribbean & LatAm routes

• Phil says:

  11 Apr11 April 05:46

  Fingers crossed. I’ll take JB over Norwegian any day.

• Mits10 says:

  11 Apr11 April 07:04

  Potential for an Emirates codeshare on these routes given that JB are a close Skywards partner? A new Skywards earn/redeem opportunity?? This is great news as the current Mint cabin is excellent!

• Fc99 says:

  11 Apr11 April 07:15

  I’ve no idea if this is reflective of their general level of service but my only experience of them was when I had a delayed/cancelled flight from New York to Washington DC. After a couple of hours of delays they happily announced that the plane had taken off from its original destination only to then announce it was still in Boston a couple of hours later and hadn’t ever taken off. I can’t remember the other specifics but they’re staff told/were told someone more senior to tell other lies too.

  • Fc99 says:

    11 Apr11 April 07:16

    *their.

  • John says:

    11 Apr11 April 09:06

    You could have tracked the plane on FR24 and called them out on it.

    They’ll have to take on the obligations of whatever replaces EC261/2004 in the UK.

    • Alan says:

      11 Apr11 April 20:22

      Although only when departing the UK, not for inbound flights from the USA.

• Mike says:

  11 Apr11 April 07:25

  JetBlue has a premium cabin called Mint – perhaps for the UK market it could be renamed as “minted”

• Dwadda says:

  11 Apr11 April 07:40

  My recollection was that Mint (that includes a lie flat seat) was about half the price of the big three for NY-SF. That would be great if they got LHR slots. BA makes a $1b in profit just on the LHR-NYC route (the most lucrative in the world). A bit of price competition seems warranted.

  • insider says:

    11 Apr11 April 09:18

    i can’t help but think that APD and other airport related costs in the UK (especially LHR) would water down any significant savings

  • Jonny says:

    11 Apr11 April 15:46

    They certainly make a chunk of money on that route, but it’s $1bn in revenue not profit!

  • Andrew MS says:

    12 Apr12 April 05:36

    1 billion turnover , not profit

• AJ says:

  11 Apr11 April 09:15

  BHX has an obvious opening after United pulled out and Primera went bust. Same routes mentioned too

  • Dwadda says:

    11 Apr11 April 09:27

    Jetblue will focus (market to) on US customers who want to go to London. STN is a better bet esp if they could somehow partner with Ryanair, which would open up the rest of Europe too. Given that Boeing has no 737s that are safe to cross the pond, there is no potential conflict, and a lot of synergies between the two lccs… Except that Ryanair passengers would be shocked by thr legroom that Jetblue provides!

    • flyforfun says:

      11 Apr11 April 10:08

      Southend Airport should be considered as a London option, particularly as it takes about the same from Liverpool Street to get to both airports! They would get lower landing fees there so the cost should be even more attractive. Plus there’s the benefit of a less crowded airport (currently at least!)

    • RussellH says:

      11 Apr11 April 10:10

      American Tourists like Oxford too.
      With some intelligent information provision to its customer base in the US, BHX ought to be able to work for Jet Blue – direct rail connections from BHX to both London and Oxford, and one change at Leamington for Stratford-on-Avon too.
      Maybe BHX needs to take a leaf out of the Ryanair Handbook and re-market itself as London North. It is just as easy to get there from here in the far northwest of England as MAN by train.

      • Andrew says:

        11 Apr11 April 11:46

        Sadly, London Oxford Airport is 300ft too short for their A321s to land and 3000ft too short for their A321s to take off.

        Also the cost for getting to and from BHX is outrageous most of the time. One train an hour from Oxford costing £82.55 return, with a fairly late first train and early last train. It actually costs less for a return from Oxford to Birmingham New Street via BHI!

        The Oxford-Heathrow or Oxford-Gatwick coaches run 24 hours and only cost from £29 return .

      • callum says:

        11 Apr11 April 12:15

        Really? Of the 100+ Americans I’ve spoken to about visiting the UK, I can recall only one or two who said they went to Oxford – and that was on trips from London.

        I find it hard to believe that JetBlue would ever consider flying to Birmingham to try and capture the New York to Oxford market!

    • Russ says:

      11 Apr11 April 12:10

      It’l probably be Gatwick.

    • Mike says:

      11 Apr11 April 20:02

      I was thinking the same but Luton and Wizz. Reasons?
      Luton has a much bigger catchment area for point to point travel and most of the wizz air destination cities don’t have direct connections to NYC.

  • Catalan says:

    11 Apr11 April 10:45

    @AJ. That’s the very reason JetBlue shouldn’t consider BHX !

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