JetBlue Adds Trips to Fetch Fliers as NYC Shutdown Ends
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JetBlue Airways Corp. added 25 extra flights today to help rescue passengers stranded as far away as South America after winter-weather disruptions forced a temporary suspension of service at four U.S. airports.
The carrier resumed operations this afternoon at New York’s Kennedy and LaGuardia airports, New Jersey’s Newark Liberty and Boston Logan, after canceling 1,800 flights since Jan. 2, affecting 150,000 customers. A Jan. 4 change in pilot rest rules was a “complicating factor,” and not a cause of the groundings, the airline said.