JetBlue announced two new destinations on Monday, with service added to Savannah, Georgia, and Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean, according to USA Today.
Service to Savannah will begin on February 13, and will consist of two daily round-trip flights to the JetBlue hub at JFK airport in New York. The flights will be on E190 jets, which have 100 seats on board. Customers going to Savannah will be able to connect to destinations that include Albuquerque, Boston, Los Angeles, Denver and San Francisco.
The service to Trinidad and Tobago will begin on February 24, with daily round-trip flights between JFK airport in New York and Port of Spain, the capital of Trinidad and Tobago. A second route will be added to Port of Spain on May 1, when a daily round trip flight to Fort Lauderdale will begin.
JetBlue will be using a 150-seat Airbus A320 for its Trinidad and Tobago flights, pending approval. The carrier will be the first low-cost carrier to fly to the country.
"We look forward to bringing lower fares and award-winning customer service to these routes," Scott Laurence, the VP of network planning at JetBlue, said in a statement. "Our new service will provide customers with an inexpensive option for travel to Port of Spain, whether traveling for vacation or to visit friends and family."
Latin American and the Caribbean will make up about one-third of the route network for JetBlue.
It is "the largest carrier in terms of capacity in both Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, offering more flights than any other carrier," according to JetBlue.
JetBlue also plans to expand their service to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, which is scheduled to begin this winter, also pending government approval. JetBlue currently flies to 13 countries outside of the United States, including Aruba, Barbados and the Bahamas.
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