Routes: AA/JetBlue team up + JetBlue fare changes, Eureka, Southwest, no domestic testing, more
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JetBlue have unveiled their initial plans for code-sharing and marketing cooperation on routes out of New York and Boston, a partnership they announced last summer. The two airlines didn’t have much to say about how the partnership will affect the New York-San Francisco market, which they both serve from JFK (and JetBlue also serves from Newark), except to note that customers will see “enhanced schedules” between the two cities. They offered more detail about their Los Angeles-New York plans, also served by both carriers from JFK and by JetBlue from Newark: “Customers will have the most choices 14 daily flights between the two carriers and will have access to (American’s) state-of-the art Airbus A321T aircraft or JetBlue’s A321 aircraft featuring Mint,” they said. Ame
Routes: Hawaii vaccine option? + Frontier at OAK, France/Tahiti visitor ban, $250 mask fines, more
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A plane flies into Lihue Airport on Kauai.Matthew Micah Wright/Getty Images
In air travel news this week, Hawaii may soon offer a quarantine exemption to visitors who have completed COVID vaccinations; Southwest will suspend Bay Area flights to Kauai; Frontier starts three new routes out of Oakland; inbound travel is shut down to France and its overseas territories, including Tahiti; TSA gets involved in mask enforcement and threatens $250 fines; airline group reports advance bookings in January were down 70%; American Airlines expands acceptance of VeriFLY app for health data, and Alaska Airlines takes it up as well; and JetBlue makes its premium Mint cabins even cushier as it prepares to begin London flights.
Routes: D.C. crackdown, new COVID test rule, animals, UA to JFK, Emirates, more
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TSA officers wear protective masks at a security screening area at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Monday, May 18, 2020, in SeaTac, Wash. Airlines say they are stepping up security on flights to Washington before next week’s inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden. Delta, United and Alaska airlines said Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021 they will bar passengers flying to Washington from putting guns in checked bags. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)Elaine Thompson/Associated Press
In air travel news this week, federal officials and airlines are imposing strong new security measures on flights to the Washington D.C. area after several incidents of rowdy flyers before and after the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will soon require a negative COVID test result from all international p
Routes: COVID testing picks up steam + JetBlue at SFO, animals on Alaska, 737 Max, more
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JetBlue is set to start some new routes from San Francisco.Dreamstime / TNS
In route news this week, the U.S. might soon require all arriving travelers to get a negative COVID test result – something Canada and Turkey are doing as well; a new website helps travelers locate COVID testing facilities worldwide; JetBlue will add two domestic routes from San Francisco in the weeks ahead, and one route to Mexico from Sacramento; Alaska Airlines plans to ban emotional support animals from its aircraft; the first 737 Max planes are back in the air, with more to come; XpresSpa partners with Hawaiian Airlines for more airport COVID testing; Aer Lingus is added to the American Airlines-British Airways joint venture; and Emirates brings a premium economy cabin to its long-haul aircraft.