Paris Charles de Gaulle (Roissy) Airport
JetBlue Airways announced plans to offer non-stop service to Paris.
The new service, which will start in the summer of 2023, will be the airline’s first destination on the European continent and its second transatlantic destination.
The airline has operated non-stop service to London for just over one year.
The New York-based carrier will first schedule non-stop flights between John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City and Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport, and will later add service linking Boston Logan International Airport with Charles de Gaulle.
The airline will operate the flights using its new Airbus A321LR, or Long Range, aircraft.
The A321LR aircraft features the airline’s newest iteration of its Mint business-class cabin. It features 24 suites, each with a sliding door, with seats designed by Tuft & Needle, a mattress and bedding company owned by Serta Simmons Bedding.
In addition to the new suites, there are several Mint Studios, a seat that the carrier says provides the most space of any premium seat offered by a U.S. airline. Each aircraft equipped with a Mint cabin will have two Mint Studios in the front row. The Mint Studio includes a 22” seatback screen, an extra side table, and a guest seat that can accommodate a visitor from another Mint seat during the flight. The Mint Studio will also offer the largest lie-flat bed of any U.S. carrier, the airlines said.
Meanwhile, each Mint passenger will receive a blanket with a built-in foot pocket, a memory-foam-lined pillow, and an amenity kit with eye mask and earplugs.
The suites will offer flannel-covered privacy dividers, concrete lampshades, and woodgrain table patterns. The seats are covered with imitation leather. Each suite has gradient lighting panels and the cabin has a new type of mood lighting, although the airline didn’t offer specifics on this.
The coach cabin, which the airline will call “core,” will feature seats that are 18.4” in width, among the widest in coach in the industry, and have a minimum seat pitch of 32”. There will be four rows of the airline’s premium economy lite section, Even More Space, with up to an additional 6” in seat pitch.
The seats feature an imitation leather product the airline calls “ultraleather,” and all seats have adjustable headrests, power outlets, and USB ports for charging, as well as a water bottle holder and several mesh pockets in the seat-back area. The aircraft’s cabin walls have been redesigned to give those in the window seat more space.
Tickets for the new flight will go on sale next year, the airline said.
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