JetBlue Announces Intent to Launch Service Between Fort Lauderdale and Caracas, Venezuela
The airline plans to use Airbus A320 aircraft and expects tickets to go on sale in the coming months, pending government approval.
- On Thursday, JetBlue announced plans to launch nonstop service between Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and Caracas, marking the airline's first-ever route to Venezuela, pending government approval.
- Responding to strong travel demand from South Florida's large Venezuelan community, the airline aims to connect families while supporting its expanding Fort Lauderdale hub, which expects nearly 130 daily departures this summer.
- JetBlue plans to operate the route using Airbus A320 aircraft, following U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's January decision to lift the seven-year-old ban on flights to Venezuela.
- Other carriers are also expanding service: American Airlines resumed flights in April, and United Airlines plans to launch Houston-Caracas service on August 11; the U.S. State Department has eased its travel advisory to "Reconsider Travel."
- Tickets are expected to go on sale in the coming months, with service launching before year-end 2026, positioning JetBlue to grow Fort Lauderdale operations to around 150 daily departures by early 2027.
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JetBlue announced direct flights between Fort Lauderdale and Caracas by the end of this year. The route seeks to connect the largest Venezuelan diaspora community in the United States. It is the second U.S. airline to reactivate connections after the end of the 2019 suspension. New air route between Florida and Venezuela to connect families The U.S. airline JetBlue requested authorization to operate direct flights between Fort Lauderdale-Hollywo…
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Diario La VerdadThe U.S. airline JetBlue announced Thursday its intention to launch direct flights between Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood airport in southern Florida and Caracas, which would make it the second airline to connect the U.S. with Venezuela, after American Airlines. JetBlue detailed in a statement that the route “is subject to government approval and completion of the necessary procedures to operate in Venezuela,” although it expects it to be operational…
The US company JetBlue announced its intention to launch a direct link between Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood (Florida) and Simón Bolívar International Airport in Maiquetía, near Caracas, its first service from Venezuela. The launch, envisaged before the end of the year, remains conditional upon obtaining regulatory authorizations, but is part of the carrier's growth strategy in Fort Lauderdale, which became one of its main hubs to Latin America.
JetBlue has become the third U.S. airline with plans to fly to Venezuela this year, joining American and United, and assuming the milestone of the landing of the low cost model for massive travel from the world's first power, starting with the Fort Lauderdale-Caracas route before the end of 2026, pending regulatory approval. "Fort Lauderdale continues to serve as Jetblue's gateway to the Caribbean and Latin America, and we believe there is a sig…
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