Qatar Airways has expanded its unilateral code-share partnership with JetBlue Airways, adding six new destinations and increasing the number of flights along existing codeshare segments.

The expanded agreement provides new code-share routes from New York (JFK) to and from US mainland destinations Albuquerque (ABQ), Daytona Beach (DAB), Reno (RNO) and Savannah (SAV), along with two Puerto Rican destinations, Aguadilla (BQN) and Ponce (PSE).

New routes give JetBlue and Qatar Airways travellers better connections across destinations in the US.

“We are pleased to deepen our partnership with JetBlue and to give our world travellers superior access to destinations in the United States, through a seamless passenger experience. The strengthening of this code-share agreement comes at a time when Qatar Airways is focused upon significantly expanding its own direct links to the US, with the launch of non-stop services to Los Angeles, Atlanta and Boston in 2016,” said Qatar Airways Group chief executive, Akbar Al Baker.

In addition to the new destinations, the partnership will increase the number of codeshare flights along existing routes to Buffalo (BUF), Burlington (BTV), Charleston (CHS), Fort Lauderdale (FLL), Fort Myers (RSW), Jacksonville (JAX), New Orleans (MSY), Oakland (OAK), Portland (PWM), Rochester (ROC), Syracuse (SYR) and Tampa (TPA).

The expanded agreement will also include connections to and from Qatar Airways’ second daily Doha to New York flight beginning March 1, 2016. The second daily service will be operated by the airline’s latest flagship Airbus A350 XWB aircraft, of which Qatar Airways was the Global Launch Customer. – TradeArabia News Service