JetBlue lift

JETBLUE AIRWAYS IS adding additional seats and flights on its New York-Barbados route during the current winter season.
This is good news for local tourism which has been apprehensive about the impact on the route of the decision by American Airlines to pull out from January 15, leaving JetBlue, a low-cost carrier headquartered in New York, as the lone carrier offering a direct flight between the two destinations.
Réal Hamilton-Romeo, JetBlue’s manager of corporate communications, said the carrier would begin by providing more seats for the approaching holiday period, one of its busiest times of the year.
“We’ve added hundreds of seats to our schedule for the holiday season (December 19 to January 6) in the form of our new A321 aircraft,” she said.