JetBlue To Begin Service To
Costa Rica March 26
JetBlue has announced regular service to Costa Rica from Florida,
beginning on March 26. The airline says it will begin flying regular
daily round trips between Orlando and San Jose.
The airline will be using its 100 sear Embraer E190 jets on the
route and will offer connecting service to San Jose from 14 cities,
including New York, Boston, Washington and Austin, Texas.
Costa Rica will be the ninth country served by JetBlue, continuing
the airline's push into Latin America. JetBlue also says the new
route bolsters its Orlando focus city.
San Jose will be JetBlue’s 22nd nonstop route from Orlando.
In a press release, JetBlue says it "will further expand its
commitment to Central Florida" with previously announced new service
to Bogota, Colombia, and to Nassau in the Bahamas.
"JetBlue is picking up the route from Dutch carrier Martinair, which
pulled out of Orlando earlier this year,” the Orlando Sentinel
writes in its Tourism Central Florida blog. Steve Gardner, the
executive director at Orlando International, says JetBlue's Costa
Rica route "further establishes our city as a gateway to the Latin
American markets."
JetBlue notes that it still must get the OK from the Costa Rican
government operating authority before it can begin the service, but
Costa Rican officials sounded supportive of the new route. "The
United States is still our biggest market, and the arrival of
JetBlue and its new Orlando route opens new possibilities for
Americans to visit us and for Costa Ricans to have more options to
visit the U.S.," Costa Rica Tourist Minister Carlos Ricardo
Benavides said. |
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