Brent Pin­heiro 

brent.pin­heiro@guardian.co.tt 

Jet­Blue Air­ways is mak­ing ma­jor ad­just­ments to its route net­work, in­clud­ing the cut­ting of 37 routes in­to 2023. Amongst them is the Fort Laud­erdale – Port of Spain route. Back in Ju­ly, the NY-based car­ri­er an­nounced it would sus­pend flights be­tween POS and Ft Laud­erdale un­til De­cem­ber 24th, 2022. 

 Ac­cord­ing to Jet­Blue, this lat­est sus­pen­sion is aimed at im­prov­ing “op­er­a­tional re­li­a­bil­i­ty.” A check on Jet­Blue’s web­site shows no flights for the Ft. Laud­erdale-POS route avail­able for book­ing up un­til Ju­ly, 2023. The air­line con­tin­ues to fly dai­ly out of New York’s John F. Kennedy Air­port.

Pi­ar­co is not the on­ly af­fect­ed route, Jet­Blue has al­so cut ser­vice to St. Lu­cia (UVF), St. Maarten (SXM), Mon­tego Bay (MBJ), and Nas­sau (NAS).  

Af­fect­ed trav­ellers with ex­ist­ing reser­va­tions will re­port­ed­ly be reac­com­mo­dat­ed on oth­er Jet­Blue flights, or of­fered a full re­fund. 

This an­nounce­ment leaves state car­ri­er Caribbean Air­lines as the on­ly op­er­a­tor on the FLL-POS route. Caribbean Air­lines cur­rent­ly flies to Fort Laud­erdale from Port of Spain twice week­ly.