NEW YORK — JetBlue Airways said Wednesday it has started selling flights scheduled for next spring and summer between the United States and both Dublin and Edinburgh.
The airline said it will run daily flights from New York and Boston to Dublin from March 13 through Sept. 30, and from New York to Edinburgh from May 22 through Sept. 30.
JetBlue plans to use single-aisle Airbus A321neo planes configured with 160 seats for both routes.
JetBlue hopes to take advantage of strong demand for international travel, which has grown more quickly than domestic travel this year.
The New York-based airline currently flies to London, Paris and Amsterdam, far fewer transatlantic destinations than offered by its bigger U.S. rivals.
Earlier this year, JetBlue announced it will end a partnership with American Airlines in the Northeast after losing a court fight over the deal, and will instead focus on salvaging its proposed purchase of Spirit Airlines.
With its decision, JetBlue said at the time the U.S. Justice Department should reconsider its opposition to a JetBlue-Spirit combination.
The Justice Department sued to block both the JetBlue-American deal and JetBlue's agreement to buy Spirit for $3.8 billion on grounds that they would hurt competition.
The Justice Department won a trial in Boston last fall over the JetBlue-American partnership. U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin decided in May that the airlines must end their Northeast Alliance, or NEA, which began in 2021, because it violates U.S. antitrust law.
A trial has been scheduled for October in the Justice Department's lawsuit against the JetBlue-Spirit merger. The government argues that consumers will suffer if Spirit — the nation’s biggest discount airline — is eliminated.