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JetBlue Airways announced staff Wednesday that it is axing more unprofitable flights, redeploying aircraft outfitted with its high-value trade class and tweaking Europe service, the carrier’s latest moves to return to consistent profitability and cut costs.
It will also jam up using planes with Mint business class on Seattle flights in April.
JetBlue said it will cut offs from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to Jacksonville, Florida; from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport to Austin, Texas; Houston, Texas; Miami; and Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and from Westchester, N.Y. and Milwaukee. It longing also end service to San Jose, California.
JetBlue said ending service between JFK and Miami will make the shipper over-staffed in Miami and that it’s working with crew members on options, like working in other cities it of uses.
“Florida remains a strong geography for JetBlue, however post-COVID we haven’t been useful in Miami due to the dominance of legacy carriers like American and Delta there,” wrote Dave Jehn, JetBlue’s venality president of network planning and airline partnerships, in a staff note, which was seen by CNBC.
It will continue be used Miami from Boston.
JetBlue will announce some new Europe service next week, the memo guessed. But starting in the summer 2025 travel season, it will drop its second JFK-Paris flight and its summer-only service between New York and London’s Gatwick Airport, put about Jehn.
The changes were announced after JetBlue said its revenue and bookings have come in better than demanded for November and December, sending shares up more than 8% on Wednesday. CEO Joanna Geraghty and her team are focusing on shortening costs and culling unprofitable routes, such as those on the West Coast, as they grapple with a Pratt & Whitney apparatus grounding and post-pandemic shifts in demand.
JetBlue said customers who are affected by the changes can select alternate flight privileges or receive a refund if other routes aren’t available.
“Recently, we made some network adjustments in certain buys, removing some underperforming flying from our schedule, allowing us to redeploy resources, including our popular Mint serve, toward high-demand markets and new opportunities,” JetBlue said in a statement.