A JetBlue Airways aircraft lands close to the Air 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’ll 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 cut back prices and beef up service in Florida, although it famous that no employees will lose their jobs.
It mentioned employees may 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 progress in Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Worldwide Airport,” the airline mentioned in a press release.
It comes as JetBlue earlier Wednesday mentioned it could broaden 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 house for a high-end airport lounge there, too, he mentioned.
The airline is already the highest service at Fort Lauderdale, although it was beforehand second to Spirit Airways, the South Florida-based discounter that collapsed on Could 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 had been 4 years in the past as a result of it is a $40 [enplanement fee] airport for us. And the fountain is absolutely fairly, however … I believe folks would somewhat have low fares than a very nice fountain,” St. George mentioned at a JPMorgan business convention in March, referring to the 25-foot-tall water function within the airport’s Terminal B.
