Travel woes continue for JetBlue customers in Boston, across US

Travel woes continue for JetBlue customers at Boston’s Logan Airport, across country

Updated: 10:23 AM EDT Apr 10, 2022

People flying with JetBlue Airways to and from Boston, and across the country, are having another frustrating weekend of air travel.According to FlightAware, JetBlue had canceled 49 flights — of 17% of the day’s schedule — into and out of Logan International Airport as of 10:05 a.m. Sunday. In addition, 27 JetBlue flights into and out of Boston — 9% of Sunday’s schedule — were delayed.Sunday’s cancellations and delays come after JetBlue cancelled 54 flights (21%) and delayed 117 flights (46%) into and out of Logan Airport on Saturday.The only other airlines to cancel flights into and out of Boston on Saturday were Cape Air (12, 6%), Spirit (2, 10%), Jazz (2, 20%) and SAS (2, 100%), according to FlightAware.Nationwide, JetBlue canceled 191 flights (18%) and delayed 497 (48%) on Saturday. As of 10:05 a.m. Sunday, JetBlue had canceled 136 flights (12%) and delayed 177 (16%) across the country. This weekend’s cancellations and delays from JetBlue come just one week after hundreds of cancellations and hundreds more delays that stretched from April 2 into April 3, and even lingered into that Monday, April 4, at Boston’s Logan Airport alone.On Tuesday, April 5, JetBlue CEO Robin Hayes was at Logan Airport to announce that the airline will begin flying from Boston to London Gatwick on July 19. Flights to London Heathrow will follow, starting on Aug. 22.Later that day, JetBlue made an offer worth roughly $3.6 billion to acquire Spirit Airlines, potentially halting a merger between Spirit and Frontier Airlines.