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JetBlue names San Juan a “focus city”

JetBlue Airways (New York) has named its growing San Juan operation a “focus city”. During a ribbon-cutting ceremony held yesterday (June 28) in celebration of JetBlue Airways’ new home at Terminal A in San Juan’s Luis Munoz Marin International Airport (SJU), the airline’s President and CEO Dave Barger, together with Puerto Rico’s Governor Luis Fortuno, announced that San Juan has become the sixth focus city in JetBlue’s 71-city network.

San Juan joins Boston, Fort Lauderdale, Los Angeles, New York and Orlando as the sixth focus city in JetBlue’s network. The designation of San Juan as a focus city in JetBlue’s growing route network underscores the airline’s ever-increasing commitment to the Puerto Rican community and its expansion into the new Terminal A at Luis Munoz Marin International Airport, which will be able to accommodate further growth.

In Puerto Rico, JetBlue currently serves Aguadilla, Ponce and San Juan, with service to 13 nonstop destinations, nine within the continental US: Boston, Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood, Hartford/Springfield, Jacksonville, New York, Newark, Orlando, Tampa and West Palm Beach and; four within the Caribbean: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, St. Maarten, St. Thomas, and St. Croix. The airline has announced it will begin the only direct nonstop to Washington Reagan National Airport, its 14th city out of San Juan, on August 23, 2012.

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JetBlue Airways provides more details on new routes

JetBlue Airways Airbus A320-232 N531JL (msn 1650) (Barcode) IAD (Brian McDonough), originally uploaded by Airliners Gallery.

JetBlue Airways (New York) will fly from Newark to Boston and San Juan to Tampa and Jacksonville. Four daily flights from Boston to Newark, and a double daily flight from Tampa to San Juan, begin on May 4 (second frequency from Tampa to San Juan begins June 16) while Jacksonville’s daily nonstop service to San Juan begins on May 19.

JetBlue intends to operate its San Juan to Tampa service with 150-seat Airbus A320 aircraft while JetBlue’s Jacksonville to San Juan service will be operated with Embraer ERJ 190.

JetBlue Airways introduces its latest tailfin – “Barcode”

JetBlue Airways Airbus A320-232 N531JL (msn 1650) (Barcode) (via Stephen Toernblom) (ex Blue Wings D-ANNF) “All Blue Can Jet”, originally uploaded by Airliners Gallery.

JetBlue Airways (New York-JFK) today (September 7) introduced its newest tailfin livery design named “Barcode”‘ on the latest aircraft to join its fleet – ex-Blue Wings D-ANNF. The Airbus A320-232 registered N531JL (msn 1650), appropriately named “All Blue Can Jet”, was unveiled to hundreds of customers and All-You-Can-Jetters at its home port of John F. Kennedy International Airport, Terminal 5. Today is the first day of All You Can Jet, unlimited travel for customers who purchased a pass for 30 days of flying, through October 6, 2010.

Barcode is the tenth tailfin design (if you count the previously-announced “Building Blocks”) introduced by the company since it began flying in February 2000. Visit JetBlue’s blog at http://blog.hellojetblue.com/blog/ for a complete set of tailfin images.

In keeping with JetBlue’s new fuselage design, the JetBlue logo on the aircraft is entirely dark blue and featured prominently. All future livery refresh cycles will convert the fuselage logo to the enlarged JetBlue logo. The new Barcode paint scheme will be scheduled into the airline’s current paint-refresh timeline.

Question for JetBlue: What happened to the ninth design called “Building Blocks” which was introduced with much fanfare on February 11, 2010 and was designed by Troy Bokosky in a contest? Despite the press release back then, no aircraft have been painted in the “Building Blocks” theme.