JetBlue to add 'Mint' flat-bed seats to more routes
JetBlue is expanding its recently launched “Mint” service to more routes.
JetBlue’s Mint seats debuted in 2014 on its new Airbus A321 aircraft, giving the carrier premium seating for the first time. Mint passengers get seats that recline into lie-flat beds, upgraded food options and amenity kits.
JetBlue currently offers Mint on its flights connecting New York JFK to Los Angeles and San Francisco and on flights between Boston and San Francisco. To the Caribbean, JetBlue’s Mint cabin flies on the airline’s year-round JFK-Barbados flights on its seasonal JFK-Aruba and Boston-Barbados routes. JetBlue says it is the only U.S. carrier offering lie-flat seating on routes between the USA and the Caribbean.
Now, the airline will add the seats to more routes beginning this fall.
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Within the USA, JetBlue's Mint seating to be available between Boston and Los Angeles starting Oct. 20. JetBlue initially will offer Mint on one of its three daily flights between the cities before expanding it to all Boston-LAX flights in November.
Elsewhere, JetBlue will add Mint seating to two Caribbean routes from New York and to one Caribbean route from Boston.
From its hub at New York JFK, JetBlue will deploy its Mint seating to its seasonal service to St. Lucia and St. Maarten. Those routes start Nov. 5 and run through the spring.
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From its Boston hub, JetBlue will put Mint seating on its seasonal service to Aruba, which begins Nov. 5.
“Mint’s curated offering and personalized service continues to win over customers who have grown weary of legacy carriers’ tired premium offering,” Marty St. George, JetBlue’s executive vice president -- commercial and planning, says in a statement. “Even better, these Airbus A321s with Mint offer a redesigned core cabin with enhanced entertainment features and more comfortable seating for every customer onboard.”