JetBlue and American unveil next stage of ‘Northeast Alliance’

American Airlines and JetBlue Airways are again expanding their networks from Boston and New York’s John F Kennedy International airport as part of their so-called Northeast Alliance. The carriers say on 21 April that both cities will see ”significant growth, with new nonstop service and additional code-share routes”. They attribute the expansion to their new collaboration, which the US Department of Transportation (DOT) approved in January. New destinations for American from Boston will include Cincinnati, St Louis and Toronto. American will also begin flying from New York’s LaGuardia airport to Houston, Oklahoma City and Omaha. JetBlue will launch several new routes from New York and Boston, including those to seven cities that are new to JetBlue’s route map: San Antonio, Kansas City, Ashville, San Pedro Sula (Honduras), Vancouver (Canada) and Puerto Vallarta (Mexico). JetBlue will also begin flights from LaGuardia to Jacksonville, Nashville, New Orleans, Portland (Maine), Sarasota and Savannah. The airline will launch those routes between October and summer 2022, it says.<br/>