JetBlue pressed ahead with the start of its daily JFK to Heathrow service, counting on its new Airbus A321LR jets, a longer-range variant of the A321neo, to underpin profits.
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In a move it s claimed will shake up transatlantic premium air travel , low-cost American airline JetBlue this summer is launching flights to London for the first time.
The services will be operated by a long-range version of the single-aisle Airbus A321 aircraft, which will be fitted out with 24 individual reimagined Mint suites, including two first-class Mint Studio seats at the front that the airline claims have the largest lie-flat bed of any U.S carrier .
Both designs were conceptualised by London-based Acumen Design Associates and developed in partnership with another UK studio, Aim Altitude.
JetBlue this summer is launching flights to London for the first time, using long-range A321 aircraft. At the front will be two first-class Mint Studio seats, pictured, which JetBlue says have the biggest lie-flat bed of any U.S carrier
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