JetBlue is in search of so as to add a second day by day low fare nonstop flight between Washington D.C. and San Juan, Puerto Rico, Caribbean Journal has discovered.
The airline will apply with the U.S. Division of Transportation for slot exemptions in an effort to double its service between Ronald Reagan Washington Nationwide Airport and Luis Muñoz Marín Worldwide Airport, the corporate confirmed.
“JetBlue seems to be ahead to submitting our software to boost the connection between Reagan Nationwide and our focus metropolis, San Juan, with handy double-daily low fare roundtrip flights between the 2 capitals,” stated Robert Land, JetBlue’s head of presidency affairs and affiliate normal counsel. “Puerto Rico, often known as ‘La Isla del Encanto,’ depends on air service to keep up and improve its reference to the mainland United States, and to Washington, D.C. specifically.”
This software is a component what JetBlue known as a broader initiative to extend connectivity to and from Puerto Rico, together with including extra home and worldwide locations.
That features recently-announced plans to introduce the airline’s Mint premium service between New York and San Juan for the primary time, and establishing a pilot and flight attendant crew base in San Juan.
Moreover, including a second day by day flight on the route would help additional connectivity to the U.S. Virgin Islands, together with each St. Thomas and new service to St. Croix set to launch in December, in addition to to further locations within the area, the provider stated.
The airline will common 46 departures per day from Puerto Rico this upcoming winter, greater than another airline.
