Full Video: JetBlue President Joanna Geraghty at Skift Global Forum 2022

JetBlue President and Chief Operating Officer Joanna Geraghty teased that beyond recent launches of a trio of routes from New York to London, including JFK-Heathrow, JFK-Gatwick, and Boston-Gatwick, the airline is contemplating expansion to continental Europe.

Continuing to grow JetBlue's network in Mexico is also on the to-do list, but Geraghty quipped "right now, our plate's a bit full" given the airline's engagement in an antitrust trial pertaining to its Northeast Alliance with American Airlines, and JetBlue's pending acquisition of Spirit.

Geraghty discussed those issues and a host of others at Skift Global Forum in Manhattan September 20 in an interview with Skift Airline Weekly Editor Edward Russell.

Watch the video and read the transcript below.

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Interview Transcript

Edward Russell: All right. Here we go. Excellent. Welcome, everybody. I'm Edward Russell, the editor of Airline Weekly, Skift's daily airline news site and in-depth analysis every week. I'm joined today by Joanna Geraghty, president and chief operating officer of JetBlue since 2018. Joanna, welcome.

Joanna Geraghty: Thank you.

Russell: Excellent. This panel, we're talking about JetBlue balancing growth and other opportunities. I wanted to start out with a little bit of growth. JetBlue launches new service between Boston and London Heathrow today, which is pretty exciting. It's been a long time coming. Tell us a little bit about that. How's it going?

Geraghty: Yeah, it's great. We launched service to London last year around this time from JFK. We operate one daily JFK-Heathrow, one daily JFK-Gatwick. We launched Boston-Gatwick earlier this summer. And today we launched Boston-Heathrow, which obviously with the Queen's passing, it's a much more muted celebration. But very excited about our entry into London, our flying across the pond.

So far, it has been fantastic. The product is amazing. 24 seats of Mint configured seats, great food. We have Dig Inn. If you're from New York, you know Dig a little bit. It's a pretty cool restaurant. I actually think Core, our back of the cabin is going to disrupt quite a bit as well. And we've won a number of awards. So really, really excited. We have a wonderful in-flight team that delivers that service.

So far, load factors have been through the roof, and I'd say it's pretty tough to get a Mint seat fly