Travel Feb. 19, 2012 - 05:42AM JST ( 0 )

NEW YORK —

JetBlue Airways has announced an interline partnership with Japan Airlines (JAL) allowing travelers to more conveniently book connections between JetBlue’s network in North America and JAL’s network throughout Asia Pacific.

Through the agreement, customers may book tickets for combined travel on JetBlue and Japan Airlines through New York John F Kennedy Airport (JFK) and Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). Customers may book their connecting travel by calling Japan Airlines reservations or their preferred travel agent.

JAL offers daily nonstop service from New York and Los Angeles to the carrier’s hub at Tokyo’s Narita International Airport (NRT), where travellers may connect onward to most major cities in Asia including Bangkok, Beijing, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Seoul, Shanghai, and Taipei.

In addition to the JFK and LAX gateways, where JetBlue and JAL will launch their interline agreement, JAL also offers daily service from Chicago O’Hare to Tokyo-Narita and from San Francisco to Tokyo-Haneda.

At New York, JetBlue offers easy connections between JAL-operated flights and cities up and down the United States East Coast including Buffalo/Niagara Falls, New York; Charlotte and Raleigh, North Carolina; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and cities throughout Florida. From Los Angeles, JetBlue offers connecting service to Boston, New York (JFK), and Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

New connections at Boston to begin April 22

Japan Airlines plans to begin nonstop service between Tokyo-Narita and JetBlue’s Boston focus city this spring – an exciting new route that marks the commercial debut of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner in the U.S. market – making Boston the third connecting point between JetBlue and JAL. The new service between Boston and Tokyo, operated by JAL and part of its transpacific joint business agreement with American Airlines, will be the only nonstop link from New England to Asia.

At Boston Logan International Airport, JetBlue is the largest airline and currently offers 100 daily flights to 44 cities across the U.S. and Caribbean including Baltimore, Maryland; Buffalo/Niagara Falls, New York; Newark, New Jersey; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Washington, DC (Reagan National and Dulles International Airports).

With a mid-day arrival and departure time, JAL’s new service is perfectly timed for connections with JetBlue to and from destinations throughout the Northeast and Florida.

PR Newswire