As it was announced a while back, Jetblue will be ending its Charlotte to New York JFK service.
Jetblue was operating two daily flights between the two cities, one morning service at 9:59 AM and one evening service at 7:36 PM to JFK. These flights have been in tough competition with American and Delta to JFK, but also with other New York area flights, like LaGuardia (Delta, American) as well as EWR (United, American, Spirit).
This reduction does not mean Jetblues farewell to CLT though. The airline announced, that the two frequencies will be added to their 3x daily BOS service, bringing this to a 5x daily frequency. This comes in the middle of Jetblue trying to fight off Delta, which has announced that they want to establish a hub there.
Delta will add national as well as several international destinations out of BOS over the next year, and Jetblue has teased their first transatlantic flights from Boston and JFK as well.
Glad they are staying in CLT, but I wish they’d bring back service to FLL. It would be nice to catch connections to Latin America via their FLL hub.
JFK didnt do too bad, but there were other routes making more money into JFK. Since it’s a heavily restricted (slotted) airport, I understand why they try to use it for potentially higher yielding routes. Boston on the other hand will see tough competition over the course of the next years. Delta announced it wants to create a mini-hub there, similar to what they have been doing in Seattle. For that reason, Jertblue will fight for all available capacity to CLT as well. Also, after Jetblues announcement for transatlantic flights, a lot of airlines already up their capacities there to fight competition.
FLL used to be a Charlotte route a while ago, not sure why they stopped it. But it would be a good alternative for people of Charlotte to fly into the Caribbean or other parts of Latin America. The only feasible connections right now are with American through MIA – even so we have been seeing many more non-stop flights to that area out of CLT too.