{"id":94691852,"date":"2011-03-22T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/jetblue-and-virgin-atlantic-team-up-on-transatlantic-travel\/"},"modified":"2011-03-22T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T11:00:00","slug":"jetblue-and-virgin-atlantic-team-up-on-transatlantic-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/jetblue-and-virgin-atlantic-team-up-on-transatlantic-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"JetBlue and Virgin Atlantic Team Up on Transatlantic Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/miles-away\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/2011\/3\/virgin_atlantic.JPG\" alt=\"Virgin Atlantic\" title=\"Virgin Atlantic\" width=\"450\" height=\"340\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p align=\"center\">\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>JetBlue &amp; Virgin Atlantic team up<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLow-cost carrier JetBlue Airways<span class=\"xn-location\"> <\/span>and Virgin Atlantic, announced a new transatlantic interline<br \/>\npartnership Tuesday. Starting today, passengers can connect from London, Glasgow and Manchster on Virgin onward to domestic flights with JetBlue serving such top destinations as Baltimore, Charlotte, Chicago, San Diego, Tampa, and San Juan, Puerto Rico.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAccording to a press release, the airlines will interline in the following Virgin Atlantic-operated transatlantic markets that depart from JetBlue&#39;s <span class=\"xn-location\">Boston<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">New York<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Washington<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-location\">Orlando<\/span> focus cities:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<ul class=\"discStyle\">\n<li><span class=\"xn-location\">Boston<\/span> &ndash; <span class=\"xn-location\">London<\/span> (<span class=\"xn-location\">Heathrow<\/span>)<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"xn-location\">New York<\/span> (Kennedy) &ndash; <span class=\"xn-location\">London<\/span> (<span class=\"xn-location\">Heathrow<\/span>)<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"xn-location\">Orlando<\/span> &ndash; <span class=\"xn-location\">Glasgow<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"xn-location\">Orlando<\/span> &ndash; <span class=\"xn-location\">London<\/span> (<span class=\"xn-location\">Gatwick<\/span>)<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"xn-location\">Orlando<\/span> &ndash; <span class=\"xn-location\">Manchester<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"xn-location\">Washington<\/span> (Dulles) &ndash; <span class=\"xn-location\">London<\/span> (<span class=\"xn-location\">Heathrow<\/span>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n<br \/>\n<span class=\"xn-person\">Scott Resnick<\/span>, JetBlue&#39;s director of airline partnerships, said in a statement about the new partnership, &quot;JetBlue is pleased to begin interline service with a transatlantic leader of Virgin Atlantic&#39;s caliber.&quot;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHe added, &quot;With its focus on<br \/>\ncultivating a distinctive brand and creating a customer experience that<br \/>\ntravellers prefer, Virgin Atlantic shares a similar philosophy with<br \/>\nJetBlue. We look forward to welcoming their customers to the growing<br \/>\nJetBlue network and to giving ours more options to the U.K.&quot;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&quot;We are delighted to begin this interline cooperation with<br \/>\nJetBlue&quot;, said <span class=\"xn-person\">Edmond Rose<\/span>,<br \/>\nDirector of Commercial and Revenue Planning for Virgin Atlantic.<br \/>\n&quot; This partnership will offer Virgin Atlantic passengers a<br \/>\nstreamlined journey between our four U.K. airports and many cities<br \/>\nacross the U.S. and <span class=\"xn-location\">Puerto Rico<\/span>, enjoying the highest standards of service throughout their travels.&quot;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWith this agreement, passengers can buy single itineraries that combine JetBlue and Virgin Atlantic travel. This opens new travel options to customers on both carriers. It also means people will only have to check bags and be ticketed once for their flight originating with JetBlue or Virgin Atlantic.&nbsp; The new agreement goes into effect this week.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; JetBlue &amp; Virgin Atlantic team up &nbsp; Low-cost carrier JetBlue Airways and Virgin Atlantic, announced a new transatlantic interline partnership Tuesday. Starting today, passengers can connect from London, Glasgow and Manchster on Virgin onward to domestic flights with JetBlue serving such top destinations as Baltimore, Charlotte, Chicago, San Diego, Tampa, and San Juan, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94691852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94691852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94691852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94691852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94691852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94691852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94691852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}