=20 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This article was sent to you by someone who found it on SFGate. The original article can be found on SFGate.com here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=3D/n/a/2005/10/11/financial/= f192505D89.DTL --------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, October 11, 2005 (AP) JetBlue Adds Destinations, More Flights (10-11) 19:25 PDT NEW YORK, (AP) -- JetBlue Airways Corp. will begin flying from New York to Boston, Austin, Texas, and Richmond, Va., plus boost the number of daily flights between New York and Buffalo and Burlington, Vt. The new flights announced Tuesday from John F. Kennedy International Airport to Boston will put the upstart discount carrier in new competition with Delta Air Lines Inc. and US Airways Group Inc., which both have competing shuttles from New York's LaGuardia Airport. AMR Corp.'s American and American Eagle units also serve Boston with frequent flights from New York. JetBlue also will begin daily service from Boston to Austin, Richmond, t= he Bahamas and West Palm Beach, Fla. The new service between New York and Boston begins Nov. 9, while Austin-New York flights begin Jan. 19, 2006. The New York-Richmond service is slated to start March 31, 2006. Beginning Dec. 6, JetBlue will add a fourth daily flight between New York and Burlington, Vt., and on Dec. 20, the carrier will add its eighth daily flight between New York and Buffalo. The airline also said it will triple the number of destinations out of Boston by April 2006. JetBlue said its expansion of flights will coincide with the introduction of new Embraer 190 aircraft to its fleet. The new jets, which are smaller than JetBlue's main Airbus A320 jets, seat 100 people and will feature 100 channels of XM satellite radio. JetBlue already offers 36 channels of satellite television service. JetBlue CEO David Neeleman said the airline expects the delivery of one new E190 every 20 days and 16 new A320 aircraft in 2006, and plans to add seven more gates at New York's Kennedy Airport. He said that expansion will give JetBlue the potential to offer up to 200 daily flights. ---------= ------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright 2005 AP