JetBlue expands Puerto Rico service, buys Verizon's Airfone
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JetBlue is expanding its service to Puerto Rico, adding additional flights on existing routes between San Juan and New York JFK, Orlando and Boston. JetBlue will grow its JFK-San Juan route to seven daily round-trip flights, an increase of four flights a day that will be phased in between September and December. The carrier also will double its number of flights between Orlando and San Juan, expanding to four daily round-trip flights this fall. A fifth daily flight will be added to the route "during the peak December holiday travel season."
From Boston, JetBlue says it will begin its seasonal service "two months early this year," with two weekly nonstop flights beginning in September. Service on that route will increase to three weekly flights in October before the service becomes daily on Nov. 2. JetBlue will ups that to two daily round-trip flights on the route in December and January. "We're pleased to demonstrate our commitment to the island by redeploying aircraft this winter into San Juan, one of our strongest markets,” JetBlue CEO David Barger says in a statement.
And in other JetBlue news today, The Associated Press writes that "JetBlue will purchase Verizon Communications' in-flight calling service, the airline said Monday. A Verizon unit, Airfone, operated a network of seat-back phones on several commercial airlines, but shut down that business in 2006, after the spectrum it used was reauctioned by the government." Airfone will be operated under JetBlue subsidiary LiveTV, which currently offers satellite-based TV programming to JetBlue and a few other carriers. The Wall Street Journal (subscription required), which was the first to report on the story, says JetBlue's "move that should boost LiveTV's ability to offer email and messaging services on its clients' planes."
Comment | Recommend 7m ago from USA TODAY
JetBlue is expanding its service to Puerto Rico, adding additional flights on existing routes between San Juan and New York JFK, Orlando and Boston. JetBlue will grow its JFK-San Juan route to seven daily round-trip flights, an increase of four flights a day that will be phased in between September and December. The carrier also will double its number of flights between Orlando and San Juan, expanding to four daily round-trip flights this fall. A fifth daily flight will be added to the route "during the peak December holiday travel season."
From Boston, JetBlue says it will begin its seasonal service "two months early this year," with two weekly nonstop flights beginning in September. Service on that route will increase to three weekly flights in October before the service becomes daily on Nov. 2. JetBlue will ups that to two daily round-trip flights on the route in December and January. "We're pleased to demonstrate our commitment to the island by redeploying aircraft this winter into San Juan, one of our strongest markets,” JetBlue CEO David Barger says in a statement.
And in other JetBlue news today, The Associated Press writes that "JetBlue will purchase Verizon Communications' in-flight calling service, the airline said Monday. A Verizon unit, Airfone, operated a network of seat-back phones on several commercial airlines, but shut down that business in 2006, after the spectrum it used was reauctioned by the government." Airfone will be operated under JetBlue subsidiary LiveTV, which currently offers satellite-based TV programming to JetBlue and a few other carriers. The Wall Street Journal (subscription required), which was the first to report on the story, says JetBlue's "move that should boost LiveTV's ability to offer email and messaging services on its clients' planes."
