JetBlue Airways, the largest airline to the Caribbean, continues expansion in Boston with seasonal weekly service from Boston to Barbados launched on November 7.
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JetBlue’s flights to Barbados will be operated on a 150‐seat Airbus A320 and will offer the airline’s award‐winning service featuring assigned and comfortable seating; free Fly‐Fi, the fastest broadband internet in the sky; complimentary and unlimited name‐brand snacks and non‐alcoholic/soft drinks; free, live DIRECTV® programming and 100+ channels of SiriusXM® radio in every seatback; and the most legroom in coach (based on average fleet‐wide seat pitch of U.S. airlines).
Barbados Tourism Minister Richard Sealy welcomes the inaugural JetBlue flights from Boston to Barbados – photo from Barbados Today
The Boston to Barbados flight is the fifth new Caribbean seasonal service launched by Jetblue from Boston in the last year including the announcement that it would offer its highly successful Mint experience from JFK to Barbados as part of the regular twice daily service on Saturdays between November 7, 2015 and April 30, 2016 to Bridgetown, Barbados and then daily between December 19, 2015 and January 4, 2016. Beginning March 2016 from Boston, the aircraft will change to an A321 Mint configured aircraft offering 16 lie‐flat seats.
