JetBlue’s Long Game Involves More International Flights
Photo Credit: Joanna Geraghty, JetBlue’s president and chief operating officer, speaking to Skift Airline Weekly editor Edward Russell at Skift Global Forum in New York on Sept. 19. Skift / Neil van Niekerk
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The airline’s planned takeover of Spirit will give it a bigger footprint in the U.S., but destinations including Africa are part of a bigger, bolder plan — one, however, that could take several years to materialize.
JetBlue plans to expand in Latin America and add new destinations in Africa following its $3.8 billion takeover of Spirit Airlines.
Joanna Geraghty, JetBlue’s president and chief operating officer, said while its planned acquisition would give it more scope to fly to the Midwest in the U.S. and several states it traditionally flies over, not into, there was scope to expand internationally.
Speaking at Skift Global Forum in New York City on Tuesday — the day JetBlue launched its long-awaited Boston-London Heathrow route — Geraghty said she wanted to leverage Spirit’s interna
