The airline announced the addition ofAmsterdam as a third Europe destination one month after it began accepting reservations for its new flights between New York and Paris.

JetBlue will launch new service between John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) inNew York and Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS) in late summer 2023. Boston-to-Amsterdam flights will then follow. (Exact dates for the flights to Boston are TBD.) The reasonably priced tickets to Amsterdam will be on sale “in the coming weeks,” as per JetBlue.

The Airbus A321 LR (long-range) aircraft, a narrow-body aircraft that can fly longer and farther than previous versions of the model, will be used for the daily Amsterdam flights once they begin (they are still pending final government certification). They still leave capacity for 114 economy seats and 24 Mint seats, JetBlue’s equivalent of business class with lie-flat chairs. Additionally, the flights will include JetBlue specialties like “the most legroom in coach,” seatback screens with live and on-demand entertainment at each seat, free Wi-Fi, food, and refreshments.

114 economy seats and 24 Mint seats, JetBlue’s equivalent of business class with lie-flat seats, are still available. Along with other JetBlue features like “the most legroom in coach,” seatback screens with live and on-demand entertainment, complimentary Wi-Fi, snacks, and beverages, will be offered in flight.

In March, when theParis flights launched, JetBlue first hinted at its Amsterdam aspirations. “It’s a constrained airport that’s slot controlled [and] that’s dominated by legacy carriers,” JetBlue’s president and COO Joanna Geraghty told AFAR last month. “We’d like to continue to be that disruptor that comes in and serves the customers in those communities with a better experience at low fares”.

“For too long the U.S. legacy carriers, backed by their joint ventures with other global airlines that enjoy immunity from antitrust laws, have locked customers in with very expensive fares and mediocre service,” JetBlue’s CEO Robin Hayes added in a statement.

For more smooth connectivity between the continents, all “big three” American airlines have agreements in place with European airlines. For transatlantic flights, Delta Air Lines collaborates with Air France, KLM, and Virgin Atlantic, while American Airlines is a member of the oneworld Alliance, which also includes British Airways. In addition to Lufthansa, Austrian, and TAP Air Portugal, United Airlines is a member of the Star Alliance airline organization.

JetBlue is intensifying its efforts to compete with them through its expanding transatlantic service, which already offers flights between New York and Paris and will soon be supplemented by nonstop service between Boston Logan International Airport (BOS) and CDG.

When flying was briefly halted due to the pandemic, JetBlue purchased slots at London Heathrow in August 2021 to become the first airline to serve the transatlantic market. The airline was successful in getting approval to make the slots more permanent last summer. JetBlue increased the number of daily departures between New York and London to three on October 29 by adding a second route between London Gatwick (where it began service later in 2021) and New York’s JFK. Boston to Gatwick JetBlue flights began operating in August, and Boston to Heathrow flights began service in September.

The announcement by JetBlue of its expansion into Amsterdam comes after aDutch court last week declared that the Dutch government had overstepped its bounds in trying to restrict aviation traffic at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. JetBlue claimed that this legal ruling gave the airline “confidence there is room for it to enter the market.”

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