Fares Start At Just $69(a) Each Way
Connecting Service to Other New England Summer Getaways
Available Via Boston With Cape Air
NEW YORK, May 22, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- JetBlue Airways (Nasdaq:JBLU) today resumes premium low-fare service for the summer season between Nantucket and New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport. Customer-favorite JetBlue will offer convenient daily flights to the island resort through September 2, with additional weekend service operating throughout the summer.
To celebrate JetBlue's return to the island, the award-winning airline is offering a low fare of $69(a) each way for nonstop flights between New York and Nantucket. JetBlue also offers easy connections between Nantucket and dozens of other cities from coast to coast including Washington (Dulles), Pittsburgh, Charlotte, Palm Beach, Chicago (O'Hare), Denver, Los Angeles (Burbank and Long Beach), and San Francisco.
JetBlue's schedule between New York and Nantucket:
--------------------------------------------------------------------- New York (JFK) to Nantucket (ACK) to Nantucket (ACK) New York (JFK) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Depart - Arrive Depart - Arrive --------------------------------------------------------------------- Daily Daily May 22 - Sept. 2 May 22 - Sept. 2 11:00 a.m. - 12:23 p.m. 12:55 p.m. - 2:06 p.m. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Fridays Sundays June 27 - Sept. 2 June 30 - Sept. 2 9:40 p.m. - 11:23 p.m. 9:00 p.m. - 10:13 p.m. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Sundays Mondays June 29 - Sept. 2 June 30 - Sept. 2 6:40 p.m. - 8:22 p.m. 8:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mondays June 30 - Sept. 8 6:30 a.m. - 7:48 a.m. ---------------------------------------------------------------------
JetBlue serves Nantucket Memorial Airport with its quiet and fuel-efficient 100-seat EMBRAER 190, the most spacious aircraft jetting to the island. The E190 offers roomy leather seats with industry-leading legroom, 36 channels of DIRECTV(r) programming, and more than 100 channels of XM Satellite Radio - the only in-flight entertainment to Nantucket.
"New Yorkers love to summer in Nantucket, and this year we're again making it easier than ever to get there. Leave your car at home, skip the long ferry ride, and hop aboard one of our quick JetBlue flights," said Marty St. George, JetBlue's vice president of network planning. "We look forward to jetting with you to Nantucket in comfort and style."
"We are so excited to welcome JetBlue back to Nantucket," said Nantucket Island Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Tracy Bakalar. "New York is a significant market for the island. One-third of our summer visitors originate from the New York area, and now JetBlue has put the 'Faraway Land' well within their reach."
In addition to seasonal nonstop service from New York to Nantucket, JetBlue customers have year-round access to Nantucket and other popular destinations including Hyannis, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, and Provincetown, Mass., plus Rutland, Vt., through JetBlue's marketing partnership with Cape Air. The partnership offers customers low fares, one-stop reservations, simplified baggage check-in and transfer, and fast same-terminal connections for travelers making connections through JetBlue's Boston focus city onto Cape Air-operated flights.
New York-based JetBlue Airways has created a new airline category based on value, service and style. Known for its award-winning service and free TV as much as its low fares, JetBlue is now pleased to offer customers Lots of Legroom and super-spacious Even More Legroom seats. JetBlue introduced complimentary in-flight e-mail and instant messaging services on aircraft "BetaBlue," a first among U.S. domestic airlines. JetBlue is also America's first and only airline to offer its own Customer Bill of Rights, with meaningful and specific compensation for customers inconvenienced by service disruptions within JetBlue's control. Visit www.jetblue.com/promise for details. JetBlue serves 53 cities with 550 daily departures. With JetBlue, all seats are assigned, all travel is ticketless, all fares are one-way, and an overnight stay is never required. For information or reservations call 1-800-JETBLUE (1-800-538-2583) or visit www.jetblue.com.
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Codeshare service between Boston and Hyannis, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, Provincetown and Rutland operated by Cape Air.
(a) All fares are subject to change without notice. Fares are only available for flights booked at jetblue.com. Travel costs $15 more per person if purchased by telephone or at an airport or city ticket office. Fares require up to a 14-day advance purchase. Travel must be completed by September 2, 2008. Travel must take place on Tuesday and/or Wednesday. Fares may not be available on all days or on all flights. Fares are most often found on midweek travel dates. All fares must be purchased at time of reservation, and are one-way, nonrefundable, and nontransferable. Cancellations and changes can be made prior to scheduled departure for $100 per person at 1-800-JETBLUE or at jetblue.com, with applicable fare adjustment. Cancellations are for a JetBlue travel credit only, which is valid for one year. If a reservation is not changed or canceled prior to scheduled departure, all money associated with the reservation is forfeited. Fares do not include Passenger Facility Charges of up to $9 each way, September 11th Security Fees of up to $5 each way and a Federal Segment Tax of $3.50 per domestic segment. A segment is a takeoff and landing. Effective June 1, 2008, a second bag fee of $20 applies to flights booked on or after May 1, 2008. All taxes and fees must be paid at the time of purchase. JetBlue reserves the right to deny boarding to passengers without proper documentation. Other restrictions apply.
This press release contains statements of a forward-looking nature which represent our management's beliefs and assumptions concerning future events. Forward-looking statements involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions, and are based on information currently available to us. Actual results may differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements due to many factors, including, without limitation, our extremely competitive industry; increases in fuel prices, maintenance costs and interest rates; our ability to implement our growth strategy, including the ability to operate reliably the EMBRAER 190 aircraft and our new terminal at JFK; our significant fixed obligations; our ability to attract and retain qualified personnel and maintain our culture as we grow; our reliance on high daily aircraft utilization; our dependence on the New York metropolitan market and the effect of increased congestion in this market; our reliance on automated systems and technology; our being subject to potential unionization; our reliance on a limited number of suppliers; changes in or additional government regulation; changes in our industry due to other airlines' financial condition; and external geopolitical events and conditions. Further information concerning these and other factors is contained in the Company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including but not limited to, the Company's 2007 Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. We undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances that may arise after the date of this release.