A JetBlue Airways aircraft lands close to the Air Site visitors Management tower on the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Worldwide Airport on Oct. 7, 2025 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
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JetBlue Airways informed CNBC on Wednesday that it’s going to shut its flight attendant base at Newark Liberty Worldwide Airport in New Jersey and tech operations bases there and at LaGuardia Airport in New York this fall because it seeks to scale back prices and beef up service in Florida, although it famous that no employees will lose their jobs.
It stated employees might bid or switch to different bases.
“JetBlue is making focused schedule changes, ending seasonal service between Newark (EWR) and Los Angeles (LAX) and Las Vegas (LAS), to help development in Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Worldwide Airport,” the airline stated in a press release.
It comes as JetBlue earlier Wednesday stated it will increase each day, cross-country flights with its lie-flat enterprise class, Mint, from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to San Diego on Nov. 19 and can add extra Mint-equipped flights this winter to San Francisco and Los Angeles.
JetBlue has spent years trimming unprofitable routes and slicing prices to return to regular profitability.
Its final worthwhile quarter was two years in the past, and the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Worldwide Airport push is an enormous a part of its technique, JetBlue President Marty St. George informed CNBC earlier this month. The airline is scouting area for a high-end airport lounge there, too, he stated.
The airline is already the highest provider at Fort Lauderdale, although it was beforehand second to Spirit Airways, the South Florida-based discounter that collapsed on Might 2.
JetBlue executives have referred to as out the excessive prices of working at airports like LaGuardia.
“We’re a lot, a lot smaller at LaGuardia than we have been 4 years in the past as a result of it is a $40 [enplanement fee] airport for us. And the fountain is admittedly fairly, however … I believe folks would slightly have low fares than a very nice fountain,” St. George stated at a JPMorgan business convention in March, referring to the 25-foot-tall water characteristic within the airport’s Terminal B.
