After fighting hard to secure slots, JetBlue has flown to Amsterdam Schiphol Airport (AMS) since August 2023. But the going has been tough. First, service from John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) ended in October 2025. Second, the sole remaining route, from Boston Logan International Airport (BOS), will now become seasonal.
An increasing number of transatlantic routes are becoming seasonal. The demand and fares are higher than during the offseason, which means there’s far less need to discount fares as much to fill seats. Not only does this help to increase fares and yields, but the loads will be higher, too. Overall performance will improve.
JetBlue had planned to continue to serve AMS on a year-round basis from BOS, but that idea has now changed. As disclosed on the airline’s website, the final departure of the year will leave Massachusetts on October 23. The last service back to the US will take place on October 24, which is the final day of the northern aviation summer based on IATA slot seasons. The next day, JetBlue will shift to winter schedules.
The latest information shows that the initial departure in 2027 will now leave BOS on March 27. This is so that the first flight back home will take place on March 28, which is the start of the northern aviation summer. It is unlikely that more changes will occur.
For the rest of 2026, the route’s timings remain unchanged, with the schedule shown below. The 138-seat Airbus A321LR will, of course, continue to be deployed. This variant has 24 Mint seats, 24 seats in Even More Space, and 90 seats in Core. With a maximum block time of eight hours and 11 minutes, it is JetBlue’s eighth-longest European service in this sense. Had it continued through the winter, with stronger headwinds, the block time would have increased to nearly eight-and-a-half hours.
Between August 2023 and April 2026, the US Department of Transportation (DOT) shows that JetBlue carried 325,096 passengers to/from AMS. Served daily on a year-round basis, JFK had 166,898 passengers. BOS is a bit different. It had 158,198 passengers, which was due to the slightly later inauguration (September 2023) and that flights did not operate during the winter of 2024/2025. It became year-round again, but will now return to the seasonal offering.
In the 12 months to April 2026, BOS had 73,213 passengers, with a 77.3% load factor. Obviously, the summer months did much better than those in the winter, or the route would not be returning to a seasonal operation.
Barely four in ten seats were filled in January 2026 (61.3%), which was JetBlue’s worst European result from both the airline’s BOS and JFK hubs. The result was especially poor because barely half of the seats on flights from the US had passengers (51.8%). In contrast, the route achieved 83.8% last August. However, that was still lower than the airline’s European average for that peak summer month from both BOS (84.2%) and JFK (85.0%).
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As a proxy for the winter, let’s consider November 2026. In that month, JetBlue now plans four European routes: BOS to London Heathrow Airport (LHR) and Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport (CDG), both flown daily, along with JFK to LHR (twice-daily) and CDG (daily). Five daily departures will now be available.
November activity will be at the lowest level since 2022, which was during the COVID-19 pandemic. Departures will be 17% lower than for both November 2024 and November 2025. It’ll be a quarter below what was available in that month in 2023, when seven routes (including BOS and JFK to AMS) were available. That was also when JetBlue flew from BOS and JFK to London Gatwick Airport (LGW), but that airport is no longer served.
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