JetBlue Airways and British Airways are planning a codeshare agreement that will see the two airlines share marketing of flights to nearly a hundred destinations, feeding passengers into each other’s systems.
The two carriers filed the plan with the Department of Transportation last Wednesday. Under it, 39 JetBlue destinations from New York and 36 from Boston will link up with British Air flights to and from London and 16 other European cities. No word on whether or how loyalty points will be earned or burned on the flights.
JetBlue cities involved include Los Angeles, Fort Lauderdale, Salt Lake City and Nashville, and smaller leisure destinations like Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket in Massachusetts. On the BA end, there will be no codeshares to UK cities beyond London, but there will be shares on flights to, among others, Amsterdam; Budapest; Copenhagen; Munich; Oslo; Paris; Lisbon; Lyon, France; Warsaw, Poland; and Zurich.
The arrangement will extend JetBlue’s European connections beyond the routes it serves with its own flights to London, Paris, Amsterdam and Dublin, some of which it is reducing service on. For BA, JetBlue’s network helps them reach a wide variety of U.S. destinations. BA has codeshares with its alliance partner American Airlines, but AA’s network from New York is a weak point.
