It is a new concept that the American low-cost launches on a third route with Europe: flights with a first-class deployment, in a single-aisle plane, between the two sides of the Atlantic. It already operates from Gatwick and Heathrow, in London, to Boston and New York, and now it opens New York with Paris.
As of today, tickets are on sale for a service that will operate from June 29, with 24 luxury seats and 114 in economy class, but with more comfort than usual.
JetBlue is not a trainee airline. He knows where he moves. The routes between Europe and New York are saturated with offers, but the American is aware that its product will work well in competition with Delta, Air France (with whom they share the Sky Team platform), American and Norse.
JetBlue operates with A321LR. This one-aisle plane has a longer range than usual and allows you to cross the Atlantic without problems. It’s not the A321XLR, which is yet to be delivered to buyers, and which will have an even higher radius and of which almost all airlines have bought units.
JetBlue launched these routes during Covid, first with great caution and now, once operations are in place in London, it is launching across Europe. Right now it is taking steps to get slots (landing rights) at Schiphol, Amsterdam, where the right to operate has been denied in the first instance. The American requested the flight rights that until now Aeroflot, from Russia, had had. JetBlue denounced the Netherlands before the American government because it would breach the open skies treaty signed between the two countries.
The public airport of Amsterdam now has the problem that it has to reduce total operations and in order not to burden KLM alone with the cost of this cut, it is desperately looking for other airlines to leave.
