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Montrose Regional Airport in western Colorado has secured its second new airline partner in as many weeks.

Vice presidents and heads of network planning teams have registered for the event that will support the community in reshaping the world’s route networks.

With less than 60 days to go until Routes’ hybrid event, we explore how Routes Reconnected will be critical in stimulating the industry’s recovery.

David Neeleman’s latest startup has revised its launch plans and will now commence operations in March 2021.

Recovery from pandemic will 'be choppy,' CFO of rival Delta says.

Four routes are being launched from Hartford’s Bradley International Airport as the US carrier seeks to stimulate leisure demand.

Delta Air Lines is the airport’s primary tenant and will use 25 gates at the newly built terminal.

Two dozen new routes are joining JetBlue’s network in regions where the New York-based airline expects increasing demand for leisure travel.

JetBlue Airways added 24 new routes to warm-weather leisure destinations from its main hubs on both U.S. coasts, as carriers seek to adjust their networks to capture limited travel demand where it still exists.

Southwest Airlines will double its presence at Southern California’s Long Beach Airport (LGB), after receiving 17 new slots that were recently relinquished by JetBlue Airways.

Gulf carrier Emirates looks set to permanently suspend four long-haul routes, including halting service to one of its 12 destinations in the US.

Lawmakers warn mass US airline industry layoffs could occur this fall.

Sixteen Republican Senators signed on to a letter urging the chamber’s leadership to extend the CARES Act Payroll Support Program (PSP) until March 2021, signaling growing bipartisan consensus that more aid will be needed to avert mass layoffs this fall.

Supporters of more payroll support for airlines say the relief is needed to avoid mass layoffs.

JetBlue Airways is the first U.S. airline to place into service a new Honeywell ultraviolet (UV) cabin disinfection system through a pilot evaluation.

JetBlue has tapped Pratt & Whitney to maintain its newer IAE V2500 engines under a 13-year, fixed-price agreement, the last maintenance-related piece in a series of sweeping cost-reduction moves.

JetBlue Airways is capitalizing on the worst downturn in air travel history to reinforce its New York and Los Angeles focus cities, part of a plan to emerge from the COVID-19 crisis with an enhanced competitive profile on both U.S. coasts.

American Airlines and JetBlue are forming a partnership that is designed to boost each other’s networks in the ultra-competitive US Northeast and pave the way for new and expanded routes from New York and Boston.

JetBlue plans to build out Los Angeles as its sole West Coast focus city.

JetBlue Airways will pull out of southern California’s Long Beach Airport (LGB) as it looks to consolidate its greater Los Angeles area service at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).

The announcement comes less than a week after the Treasury agreed to terms with five of the other largest carriers in the US.

JetBlue Airways and its pilots struck an agreement that will remove the possibility of involuntary furloughs through May 1, 2021, the first deal of its kind at any U.S. airline during the COVID-19 crisis.

More than 290,000 departure seats are scheduled for July from the country.

With COVID-19 travel restrictions easing in parts of the world, airlines are gradually rebuilding their networks. Routes analyzes some of the services returning as well as new routes being launched. This week we look at JetBlue’s domestic expansion strategy, Peach adding routes from Tokyo Narita, and Lufthansa resuming mainland China operations.

Mint service from Newark to LAX and SFO will come first.