NEW YORK regulars should note that the city”s third airport, LaGuardia effectively now a downtown airport and eight miles across the East River from central Manhattan, will benefit this winter with the introduction of JetBlue Airways services to Fort Lauderdale. From LaGuardia, JetBlue will operate seven daily roundtrips beginning 17 September. The JFK based airline will offer up to 71 daily departures from New York to Florida this winter. A 21st century airline JetBlue first began service on 11 February 2000 between JFK and Fort Lauderdale with just two flights a day. This coming winter season JetBlue plans to fly as many as 24 roundtrips between New York and Fort Lauderdale through its seven new daily flights from LaGuardia together with up to 17 daily flights from JFK. JetBlue is also adding flights to additional Florida destinations from its base at JFK. In addition to up to 17 daily departures to Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood, the airline is expanding service to include as many as 15 daily departures to Orlando, up to 14 daily departures to West Palm Beach, up to 10 daily departures to Fort Myers, and up to eight daily departures to Tampa.
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