TAP Portugal to link with JetBlue on trans-Atlantic flights
David Neeleman, the founder of JetBlue Airways, is set to return to JetBlue’s Terminal 5 at JFK Monday to announce a business partnership between TAP Portugal and JetBlue. Neeleman said the new deal between TAP and JetBlue will see daily flights from Lisbon to Boston starting June 11 and flights to JFK beginning July 1. JetBlue now has 45 foreign airline partners, which leverage JetBlue’s domestic and Caribbean routes to funnel their passengers onward. Neeleman and a partner purchased half of TAP last year. JetBlue CE Robin Hayes lauded the TAP connections. The new flights, which will be offered on 271-seat Airbus A330 planes, are part of a larger build-up of TAP flights to the US. TAP already flies from Lisbon to Miami and Newark, N.J. <br/>
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TAP Portugal to link with JetBlue on trans-Atlantic flights
David Neeleman, the founder of JetBlue Airways, is set to return to JetBlue’s Terminal 5 at JFK Monday to announce a business partnership between TAP Portugal and JetBlue. Neeleman said the new deal between TAP and JetBlue will see daily flights from Lisbon to Boston starting June 11 and flights to JFK beginning July 1. JetBlue now has 45 foreign airline partners, which leverage JetBlue’s domestic and Caribbean routes to funnel their passengers onward. Neeleman and a partner purchased half of TAP last year. JetBlue CE Robin Hayes lauded the TAP connections. The new flights, which will be offered on 271-seat Airbus A330 planes, are part of a larger build-up of TAP flights to the US. TAP already flies from Lisbon to Miami and Newark, N.J. <br/>
