Matt Molnar
2010-03-31, 01:40 AM
NYCAviation:
:arrow: JetBlue and American Airlines Announce Strategic Connection Deal at JFK and Boston: Confirmed (http://nycaviation.com/2010/03/31/jetblue-and-american-airlines-to-announce-codeshare-on-international-flights-wednesday-sources/)
An actual codeshare is out of the cards for now, but the story broken by @flyingwithfish and posted here last night seems to be mostly correct, with additional details. American Airlines has announced a groundbreaking and multi-faceted deal with JetBlue which includes smoothing connections between each carrier’s flights on international and non-competing domestic routes and involves a total of four airports.
The cornerstone of the deal is an interline agreement enabling jetBlue flights at Boston Logan (BOS) and New York Kennedy (JFK) to seamlessly connect with American Airlines flights to a dozen destinations in Europe, Asia and South America. The deal will also give incoming AA passengers connections to 18 of jetBlue’s US destinations on which the carriers do not compete.
Slots will be swapped, as well. The initially reported eight AA slot-pairs at Reagan National (DCA) in Washington will indeed be transferred to JetBlue. In addition, jetBlue will receive one slot-pair at White Plains (HPN), while handing over 12 JFK slot-pairs to American.Full Article (http://nycaviation.com/2010/03/31/jetblue-and-american-airlines-to-announce-codeshare-on-international-flights-wednesday-sources/)]
:arrow: JetBlue and American Airlines Announce Strategic Connection Deal at JFK and Boston: Confirmed (http://nycaviation.com/2010/03/31/jetblue-and-american-airlines-to-announce-codeshare-on-international-flights-wednesday-sources/)
An actual codeshare is out of the cards for now, but the story broken by @flyingwithfish and posted here last night seems to be mostly correct, with additional details. American Airlines has announced a groundbreaking and multi-faceted deal with JetBlue which includes smoothing connections between each carrier’s flights on international and non-competing domestic routes and involves a total of four airports.
The cornerstone of the deal is an interline agreement enabling jetBlue flights at Boston Logan (BOS) and New York Kennedy (JFK) to seamlessly connect with American Airlines flights to a dozen destinations in Europe, Asia and South America. The deal will also give incoming AA passengers connections to 18 of jetBlue’s US destinations on which the carriers do not compete.
Slots will be swapped, as well. The initially reported eight AA slot-pairs at Reagan National (DCA) in Washington will indeed be transferred to JetBlue. In addition, jetBlue will receive one slot-pair at White Plains (HPN), while handing over 12 JFK slot-pairs to American.Full Article (http://nycaviation.com/2010/03/31/jetblue-and-american-airlines-to-announce-codeshare-on-international-flights-wednesday-sources/)]