JetBlue, British Airways search partnership to develop networks
Silhouette of passenger in entrance of the JetBlue Airbus A321neo plane noticed on the apron tarmac docked on the passenger jet bridge from the terminal of Amsterdam Schiphol Worldwide Airport AMS EHAM within the Netherlands.
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JetBlue Airways stated Wednesday that it’s searching for U.S. Division of Transportation approval to pair up with British Airways so the airways might every develop their networks.
The code-sharing settlement consists of 75 locations in america — 39 from New York and 36 from Boston — and 17 cities in Europe.
Airways regularly flip to code-sharing agreements, which permit carries to promote seats on airline companion’s flights, to develop in areas exterior their community.
American Airways additionally has a greater than decade-old three way partnership with British Airways throughout the Atlantic that’s extra concerned than a code-sharing settlement.
JetBlue has been rising its service to Europe in recent times, including flights to Paris, Amsterdam, Dublin and Edinburgh, although it’s dwarfed by bigger trans-Atlantic alliances, together with these of American, United and Delta Air Strains.
“We’re at all times in search of new methods to supply our prospects extra selection when touring,” JetBlue stated in a press release in regards to the settlement, which was reported earlier by Paxex Aero, an trade information website.
If the settlement have been to achieve DOT approval, prospects would have the ability to seamlessly ebook a single ticket for journey on each airways, offering an expanded community of locations throughout Europe and the U.S.
American declined to say if it was concerned within the JetBlue-British Airways plan.
The brand new “codeshare supplies extra choices for transatlantic journey, which vacationers can recognize, whether or not flying on the Atlantic Joint Enterprise or in any other case,” American stated in a press release.
British Airways did not instantly remark.
JetBlue’s request for an settlement with British Airways comes a yr after a federal decide struck down JetBlue’s partnership with American in the usNortheast, which sought to permit the carriers to coordinate schedules and routes.
