In recent years, we’ve seen JetBlue expand with transatlantic flying, though the airline has seemingly had mixed luck with this, with several routes being pulled after a season or two, or being reduced from year-round to seasonal. The airline has now announced plans to add two new transatlantic routes in 2026, both of which are new destinations for the airline.
The flights are expected to go on sale as of Thursday, November 20, 2025, so the schedules for the flights will be revealed then. The airline claims that these routes “further solidify the airline’s role as Boston’s leading leisure airline, bringing customers in New England to top vacation destinations in the U.S., the Caribbean, Latin America, Canada and Europe.”
Here’s how JetBlue CEO Joanna Geraghty describes this new service:
I mean, these new routes should do okay for JetBlue. There’s a ton of transatlantic demand in summer to Italy and Spain, so JetBlue should have no issues filling these planes. The question is just what kind of yields the airline can get, given the general yield disadvantage it has compared to Delta, plus the challenging economics of flying narrow body planes in long haul markets.
JetBlue of course loses money, so I suppose it’s not a question of whether the flights will be profitable, but rather, if they’ll be less unprofitable than other routes.
Bottom line
JetBlue has announced two new transatlantic routes for the summer of 2026, as the airline will fly from Boston to both Barcelona and Milan. These are two new cities for JetBlue, and it reflects JetBlue’s continued transatlantic growth in Boston over New York.
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