JetBlue is back in Columbus. The airline launched daily nonstop service between Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and John Glenn Columbus International Airport on Monday, November 2, according to JetBlue’s launch announcement carried by Business Wire, restoring a carrier that has not operated at Columbus since 2008. The first flight from Fort Lauderdale was scheduled to arrive in Columbus on Monday evening, and the first Columbus departure follows on Tuesday morning, November 3.
The Columbus schedule, as published by Aviation A2Z in its coverage of the launch, puts flight B6 1508 leaving Fort Lauderdale at 7:00 p.m. and arriving at John Glenn Columbus at 9:45 p.m. beginning November 2. The return flight, B6 1507, leaves Columbus at 6:00 a.m. and arrives in Fort Lauderdale at 8:44 a.m. beginning November 3, Aviation A2Z reported. All times are local, and the airline notes schedules may vary.
Columbus was one of two Midwest launches JetBlue made the same day. The airline also began daily Fort Lauderdale service to Indianapolis, its first-ever flights there, according to Business Wire. Together the two routes extend a Fort Lauderdale build-out that JetBlue says will pass 150 daily departures to 61 nonstop destinations this winter, its largest-ever schedule at that airport…