JetBlue celebrates its 12th Birthday Anniversary, announces a new relationship with JAL

JetBlue Airways (New York) is celebrating its 12th birthday anniversary. Each station is decorating their version of a company birthday cake.

A dozen years ago JetBlue Airways (New York) first took to the skies with a tiny route map that had just three dots – New York (JFK), Buffalo and Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood – that map today spans 70 BlueCities across 13 countries.

Happy Birthday Blue.

In other news, JetBlue today announced an interline partnership with Japan Airlines (JAL) allowing travelers to more conveniently book connections between JetBlue’s network in North America and JAL’s network throughout Asia Pacific, effective tomorrow, February 15.

Through the agreement, customers may book tickets for combined travel on JetBlue and Japan Airlines through New York John F. Kennedy Airport (JFK) and Los Angeles International Airport(LAX).

JAL offers daily nonstop service from New York and Los Angeles to the carrier’s hub at Tokyo’s Narita International Airport (NRT), where travellers may connect onward to most major cities in Asia including Bangkok, Beijing, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Seoul, Shanghai, and Taipei.

In addition to the JFK and LAX gateways, where JetBlue and JAL will launch their interline agreement, JAL also offers daily service from Chicago O’Hare to Tokyo-Narita and from San Francisco to Tokyo-Haneda.

At New York, JetBlue offers connections between JAL-operated flights and cities up and down the United States East Coast including Buffalo/Niagara Falls, New York; Charlotte and  Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and cities throughout Florida. From Los Angeles, JetBlue offers connecting service to Boston, New York (JFK), and Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood, Florida.

Japan Airlines plans to begin nonstop service between Tokyo-Narita and JetBlue’s Boston focus city this spring – an exciting new route that marks the commercial debut of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner in the U.S. market – making Boston the third connecting point between JetBlue and JAL. The new service between Boston and Tokyo, operated by JAL and part of its transpacific joint business agreement with American Airlines, will be the only nonstop link from New England to Asia.

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