The JetBlue drop-off space at New York’s LaGuardia Airport on Oct. 31, 2023.
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JetBlue Airways instructed employees this week that it’s going to cut some routes and repair because it struggles to return to profitability and grapples with the fallout of its blocked plan to purchase Spirit Airlines.
JetBlue mentioned it can cease flying from New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport to Portland, Oregon, and to San Jose, California, and from Westchester, New York, and Martha’s Vineyard, in accordance to an inner memo, which was reviewed by CNBC. The airline can even droop service from New York to Ponce, Puerto Rico, and to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in October.
“We cannot fly in all places we might like, so we’d like to be extremely selective about the place we level our plane in order to flip a revenue, assist our total community technique, and provide a dependable operation,” wrote Dave Jehn, vice chairman of community planning and airline partnerships, in a observe to employees.
The airline is as an alternative specializing in leisure routes, including service all through the Caribbean and to Paris, the memo mentioned.
JetBlue can also be ending the so-called “BlueCity” standing, a sort of focus metropolis for the airline, at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, Jehn mentioned. He added that the service will “present quite a few choices shifting ahead” to employees there.
JetBlue did not instantly reply to CNBC’s request for remark.
Jehn mentioned the modifications had been in the works for nearly a month, earlier than the court docket choice that blocked JetBlue’s deliberate $3.8 billion acquisition of Spirit on antitrust grounds. Judge William Young’s opinion solely blocks the merger that the businesses agreed to in July 2022, not a distinct proposed mixture, ought to the airways take that route.
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