The largest carrier at Logan Airport, a New York-based airline, started nonstop service to London’s Gatwick Airport on Thursday and will begin service to London’s Heathrow Airport on September 20.
“We are excited to welcome JetBlue’s first transatlantic service from Boston to London Gatwick,” Massport CEO Lisa Wieland said in a statement. “We thank JetBlue for their continued partnership, and we look forward to the additional travel opportunities this will generate for our passengers.”
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, JetBlue first made plans to fly between Boston and London in 2019. The airline hoped to begin service between Boston and London from both New York and Boston in 2021. The airline announced last year that transatlantic service would start in New York and Boston in 2022.
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The planes ordered for the service were not ready when the carrier initially announced that Gatwick service would start on July 19 and Heathrow service would start on August 22.
JetBlue’s brand-new Airbus A321 Long Range aircraft, which has 114 core seats and 24 Mint suites, is used by passengers flying to London. The Boston Globe can tell you more about the first flight.
Every day at 6:37 p.m., flights from Boston to Gatwick leave from Boston and arrive in London at 6:35 a.m. the following day. The return flight leaves London at 12:25 and lands in Boston at 3:13 in the afternoon.
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“Our London service from New York has been an incredible success and we are thrilled to finally bring this highly anticipated service to our Boston customers, a route that has long suffered from high fares by legacy carriers,” JetBlue CEO Robin Hayes said in a statement. “As Boston’s largest carrier, adding this nonstop service to Gatwick will only make us more relevant in our New England focus city and introduce JetBlue to a largely unserved market.”
JetBlue is currently providing customers with $539 roundtrip fares in core and $2,199 in Mint for a short period of time, available only online at www.jetblue.com. The previously announced introductory fares for core flights are $499 roundtrip and for mint flights they are $1,949 roundtrip, respectively, according to the Globe.
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