JetBlue will introduce its business class Mint cabin to three destinations this summer and fall.
Year-round Mint service will be available between New York and Vancouver on July 21, and between New York JFK and San Juan on July 22.
The airline will also add the lie-flat cabins seasonally on flights from Boston and New York to Phoenix beginning in late October. And it will use Mint-equipped Airbus A321 aircraft next winter as it resumes flights between Fort Lauderdale and Phoenix for the first time since January 2023.
In addition, JetBlue will increase its Mint offerings from Las Vegas, adding the business class cabins on twice-daily flights during the winter to and from Fort Lauderdale. Mint is already available on flights to Las Vegas from Boston and New York.
JetBlue adds Caribbean routes
The Mint announcement came as part of a broader update provided by JetBlue on upcoming network changes geared toward enhancing revenue by focusing more sharply on routes that cater largely to leisure travelers.
The carrier said it will introduce three Caribbean destinations this fall: St. Vincent, Bonaire and St. Croix.
The airline will fly to St. Vincent and Bonaire from New York JFK, though it is yet to announce launch dates or the flight frequencies. JetBlue will be the only airline flying to Bonaire from JFK. It will compete against Caribbean Airlines’ twice-weekly service on the New York-St. Vincent route, Cirium flight schedule data shows.
JetBlue will bring the U.S. Virgin Islands destination of St. Croix back into its network on Dec. 12, restoring daily San Juan service that it last flew in January 2019. Those flights will compete with weekly Frontier service, thrice-daily service by regional carrier Silver Airways, and twice-daily, nine-seat flights by Cessna operator Cape Air.
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St. Croix, though, is just one of six new destinations JetBlue will add late this year from San Juan as it competes for leadership in that hotly contested market with Frontier, which will open a base at the airport next month.
JetBlue will also launch service from San Juan to Providence, R.I.; Westchester County, N.Y.; Cancun; Medellin, Colombia; and Santiago, Dominican Republic in late October.
The carrier said that it will add the new routes and Mint services by redeploying capacity elsewhere in its network, including scaling back flying at New York LaGuardia Airport and reducing flying on other underperforming routes.
JetBlue had previously announced plans to reduce service from Fort Lauderdale and Los Angeles and to pull out of Kansas City; Bogotá, Colombia; Quito, Ecuador; and Lima, Peru.