JetBlue to finish service at Miami Worldwide Airport
JetBlue Airways is ceasing service at Miami Worldwide Airport because the low cost service strikes to chop prices by eliminating much less worthwhile routes.
Miami Worldwide officers advised CBS Information Miami this weekend that the final JetBlue flight is scheduled for September 3.
The airport isn’t a key hub for JetBlue. The airline operates solely a single route into Miami Worldwide, providing one to 2 day by day flights between town and Boston’s Logan Worldwide Airport, in response to JetBlue spokesperson Derek Dombrowski. JetBlue serves over three dozen cities within the U.S., in response to its route map.
For passengers heading to South Florida, JetBlue will proceed to function out of close by Palm Seashore Worldwide Airport and Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood Worldwide Airport. The latter, roughly 25 miles north of Miami, supplied 70 day by day flights to over 30 locations as of April of this yr.
JetBlue can even droop its year-round service between Boston and Seattle beginning October 25, providing flights between the 2 cities solely through the summer season season, in response to Dombrowski.
The shift in companies align with adjustments outlined by JetBlue CEO Joanna Geraghty in an inner memo shared with CBS Information final week. In it, Geraghty mentioned the corporate would “wind down underperforming routes” as half of a bigger effort to scale back prices amid softening demand for journey.
“We’re hopeful demand and bookings will rebound, however even a restoration will not absolutely offset the bottom we have misplaced this yr, and our path again to profitability will take longer than we might hoped,” she mentioned within the memo. “Meaning we’re nonetheless counting on borrowed money to maintain the airline working.”
The choice to terminate service at Miami Worldwide comes 4 years after JetBlue added the airport to its community. At its peak, the airline was working as many as 14 day by day flights to and from Miami Worldwide, in response to the Miami Herald.
JetBlue prospects with flights booked to or from Miami after September 3 might be contacted and supplied different journey choices by way of Fort Lauderdale or a full refund, in response to Dombrowski.
