These Are JetBlue’s 5 Shortest Domestic Routes In September 2024

According to data from Cirium, an aviation analytics company, some of JetBlue Airways’ shortest routes in the United States for September 2024 are less than a hundred miles in distance.

The airline, headquartered in New York, even carries out single-digit operations in September on one of these routes. Let’s take a look at the fascinating details behind JetBlue’s five shortest domestic routes in September 2024 – all of which are less than 175 miles long.

5

Martha’s Vineyard – LaGuardia, New York

The flight takes just over an hour

Owned by Dukes County and lying close to five miles from Massachusetts, Martha’s Vineyard Airport (MVY) is the only airport on the island that airlines serve. The airport is a popular general aviation airport in the region. From MVY, JetBlue operates to LaGuardia Airport (LGA) in New York.

JetBlue covers the 175-mile journey between these airports in its Embraer 190s in around 1 hour and 10 minutes, according to flightroutes.com.

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The number of operations JetBlue operations from LGA to MVY is identical to the operations from MVY to LGA. JetBlue offers 100 seats on these flights. The airline competes with two carriers for direct flights on this route:

• American Airlines (AA), which operated the route from August to a few days in September with its Embraer 175s.
• Delta Air Lines (DL), which operated this route until September 2 with its Embraer 170s.

4

Martha’s Vineyard – JFK, New York

The route with the highest ASMs

Martha Vineyard features on this list thrice. JetBlue’s fourth-smallest domestic route in September involves flights from MVY to John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) and from JFK to MVY. This route is simply two miles smaller than the MVY-LGA route. JetBlue operates more than twice the number of flights it operates on the MVY-LGA route.

According to flightconnections.com, Delta Air Lines operated flights on this route for the first couple of days in September in its Embraer 175s. Cape Air is scheduled to start operating this route in October. This means that, for now, JetBlue is the only carrier serving direct flights from Martha’s Vineyard to JFK and back.

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American Airlines is offering a one-stop flight with a different airline on this route:

• Cape Air takes off from MVY to Boston Airport (BOS) with its Cessnas.
• From BOS, AA flies to JFK with its Embraer 175s.

3

Nantucket – Boston

Unlike its rival carrier on the route, JetBlue doesn’t operate a one-stop flight.

JetBlue operates its Embraer 190s on the first of the routes on this list which are less than 100 miles long: the journey from Nantucket Memorial Airport (ACK) to Boston Logan International Airport (BOS). Despite only having one less operation on the route between ACK and BOS (than the route between MVY and JFK), the number of seats offered is significantly lower.

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According to flightsfrom.com, Cape Air is the only other carrier offering nonstop flights on this route. Both these carriers take under an hour to complete a flight from ACK to BOS. While Cape Air uses its Cessna aircraft on the route, JetBlue uses the same aircraft it operates on the previously discussed routes.

However, Cape Air has the distinction of being the only carrier offering a one-stop flight from ACK to BOS (and from BOS to ACK). The carrier offers stops at the following destination:

• Cape Cod Gateway Airport (HYA) on a 90-mile journey that takes a little over 3 hours and 30 minutes.

2

Martha’s Vineyard – Boston

The only route with single-digit operations

JetBlue operated the 70-mile journey between MVY and BOS only for the first three days in September. On each of these operations, a hundred seats were offered on each flight, meaning that the ASMs were merely 21,000 – the least on this list.

The figures for the number of operations, seats available, and ASMs for operations from MVY to BOS and from BOS to MVY were identical.

Currently, Cape Air is the only carrier operating this route. It averages around ten daily flights on this route, which it operates with Cessna light aircraft and Tecnam P2012 Traveler. The earliest of its flights departs from MVY to BOS at 06:44 and the last at 19:15. Cape Air only offers economy flights from MVY to BOS (and from BOS to MVY).

1

Virgin Islands – San Juan

The only route on this list with an Airbus A320 operations

JetBlue’s operations from the Cyril E. King Airport (STT), located on the island of St. Thomas in the United States Virgin Islands, to Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport (SJU) in Puerto Rico spans merely 68 miles. This is by far the smallest of the carrier’s routes.

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Unlike all the other routes on this list, the operations between STT and SJU have some stiff competition, with three other airlines offering direct flights on this route. These are:

• Silver Airways, operating ATR-42s on this route, which it completes in 35 minutes.
• Cape Air, operating Cessna light aircraft with a flight time of 35 minutes.
• Frontier Airlines on its Airbus A320neos with a flight time of 44 minutes.
• Sun Country Airlines, which will commence operations on this route in December on its Boeing 737s.