BocaNewsNow.com<\/a> that it will be flying more than 125 daily departures to over 55 nonstop destinations from FLL by the end of the day, with roughly 150 daily flights expected by winter. JetBlue CEO Joanna Geraghty called Fort Lauderdale \u201cpart of JetBlue\u2019s DNA\u201d and said the airline is only getting started here.<\/p>\nThe new nonstop cities launching Thursday include Baltimore, Charlotte, Nashville, Detroit, Houston, Chicago and Ponce, Puerto Rico, along with Cleveland, which actually started a day earlier. Still to come: Indianapolis and Columbus, Ohio in November, San Diego (with JetBlue\u2019s premium Mint service) also in November, and international routes to Cali and Barranquilla, Colombia this fall, plus Caracas, Venezuela on a date still to be confirmed. Here\u2019s the full rundown of what\u2019s new at FLL:<\/p>\n
Baltimore (BWI) \u2014 3x daily, started July 9<\/p>\n
Charlotte (CLT) \u2014 3x daily, started July 9<\/p>\n
Cleveland (CLE) \u2014 1x daily, started July 8<\/p>\n
Nashville (BNA) \u2014 3x daily, started July 9<\/p>\n
Detroit (DTW) \u2014 2x daily, started July 9<\/p>\n
Houston (IAH) \u2014 3x daily, started July 9<\/p>\n
Chicago O\u2019Hare (ORD) \u2014 2x daily, started July 9<\/p>\n
Ponce, Puerto Rico (PSE) \u2014 1x daily, started July 9<\/p>\n
Barranquilla, Colombia (BAQ) \u2014 1x daily, starts Oct. 1<\/p>\n
Cali, Colombia (CLO) \u2014 1x daily, starts Oct. 15<\/p>\n
Columbus, Ohio (CMH) \u2014 1x daily, starts Nov. 2<\/p>\n
Indianapolis (IND) \u2014 1x daily, starts Nov. 2<\/p>\n
San Diego (SAN) \u2014 1x daily, starts Nov. 19<\/p>\n
Caracas, Venezuela (CCS) \u2014 1x daily, date to be confirmed<\/p>\n
JetBlue says daily departures out of FLL are up more than 75% compared to this time last year, and the airline has added service to 24 new nonstop destinations since December alone. Broward County Mayor Mark Bogen and FLL CEO\/Director of Aviation Mark E. Gale both praised the expansion, with Gale calling it a deepening of the airport\u2019s \u201cpartnership\u201d with the carrier. The West Coast growth is notable too \u2014 JetBlue\u2019s new Mint service to San Diego will be the only lie-flat product on that route, and Mint flights to Los Angeles and San Francisco are also set to launch this winter.<\/p>\n
Beyond the new flights, JetBlue is also putting money into the South Florida community through the JetBlue Foundation, which handed out $130,000 in grants this year to groups including the Boys & Girls Clubs of Broward County, Millennium 6-12 Collegiate Academy, the Adrienne Arsht Center Trust and the Brevard Schools Foundation. JetBlue CFO and Foundation president Ursula Hurley said the goal is to support youth development and aviation career pathways alongside the airline\u2019s growth at FLL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JetBlue is dramatically increasing its routes from South Florida following Spirit\u2019s collapse. BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright \u00a9…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-335557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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JetBlue is dramatically increasing its routes from South Florida following Spirit\u2019s collapse.<\/p>\n