Codeshare flights with JetBlue bookable from today
01-Oct-2009 From today, Lufthansa customers can book the new codeshare flights with Lufthansa's cooperation partner JetBlue. From 11-Nov-2009, the US carrier will be providing seamless onward connections, which can then also be booked under a Lufthansa flight number, via New York and Boston to a number of interesting destinations in the United States and Puerto Rico:
· Austin, Texas
· Buffalo, New York
· Fort Lauderdale, Florida
·Fort Myers, Florida
· New Orleans, Louisiana
· Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
· Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina
· Rochester, New York
· Syracuse, New York
· Tampa, Florida
· West Palm Beach, Florida
· San Juan, Puerto Rico
"JetBlue is an innovative airline and with its attractive product it fits in very well with us,"says Götz Ahmelmann, Vice President Alliances, Strategy & Subsidiaries, Lufthansa German Airlines. "Our passengers will greatly appreciate the extremely comfortable seats, the excellent service and the live satellite TV programmes available on individual seat-back monitors.
They will be equally impressed by the service on the ground, and by the smooth, convenient transfer at the new state-of-the-art Terminal 5 at New York's JFK Airport, JetBlue's home base. This customer-friendly terminal also houses a wide range of restaurants, food outlets and shopping facilities." The US Department of Transportation (DOT) had already approved the cooperation agreement between Lufthansa and JetBlue. Today, Lufthansa has a 15.6 per cent stake in JetBlue.