Silhouette of passenger in entrance of the JetBlue Airbus A321neo plane noticed on the apron tarmac docked at the passenger jet bridge from the terminal of Amsterdam Schiphol International Airport AMS EHAM in the Netherlands.
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JetBlue Airways stated Wednesday that it is seeking U.S. Department of Transportation acceptance to pair up with British Airways so the airlines could each extend their networks.
The code-sharing settlement contains 75 places in the United States — 39 from New York and 36 from Boston — and 17 metropolitan areas in Europe.
Airways regularly switch to code-sharing agreements, which let carries to promote seats on airline partner’s flights, to grow in locations outside the house their network.
American Airlines also has a a lot more than 10 years-previous joint undertaking with British Airways throughout the Atlantic that is far more involved than a code-sharing agreement.
JetBlue has been rising its services to Europe in modern decades, including flights to Paris, Amsterdam, Dublin and Edinburgh, even though it is dwarfed by greater trans-Atlantic alliances, which includes those people of American, United and Delta Air Traces.
“We are often seeking for new techniques to offer you our buyers much more alternative when traveling,” JetBlue stated in a assertion about the agreement, which was noted previously by Paxex Aero, an market information web-site.
If the settlement have been to gain DOT approval, prospects would be able to seamlessly guide a single ticket for travel on both equally airways, giving an expanded network of destinations throughout Europe and the U.S.
American and British Airways didn’t immediately comment.
JetBlue’s ask for for an arrangement with British Airways will come a yr soon after a federal judge struck down JetBlue’s partnership with American in the U.S Northeast, which sought to let the carriers to coordinate schedules and routes.
