Ua hoʻomaka ʻo JetBlue Airways i ka lawelawe hou i Kingston, Jamaica - kāna huakaʻi 14th honua. E lawelawe ka mokulele i ke kahua mokulele ʻo Norman Manley International o Kingston me ka lawelawe hoʻokuʻu ʻole i kēlā me kēia lā a mai New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK), me ka lawelawe hoʻohui ʻana i loaʻa i nā kūlanakauhale ma ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa.
ʻO Kingston ka lua o ka huakaʻi hele ʻana o JetBlue ma Jamaica, ma hope o ka hoʻomaka ʻana i kāna lawelawe kūʻokoʻa i kēlā me kēia lā ma waena o JFK a me Montego Bay ma ke kahakai ʻākau o ka mokupuni, e hoʻopuni ana i kahi laina ikaika o nā wahi Caribbean e komo pū ana me Mexico, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Colombia, Aruba, St. Maarten, Saint Lucia, Barbados, Bermuda, and the Bahamas. Hoʻolālā pū ʻo JetBlue e hoʻomaka i ka lawelawe hoʻokuʻu ʻole i kēlā me kēia lā i Montego Bay mai kona kūlanakauhale e ulu nui ana ma Orlando International Airport e hoʻomaka ana i ka lā 8 Pepeluali 2010, a me ka lawelawe hoʻomaha ʻole i ka Pōʻaono wale nō mai Boston's Logan International Airport e hoʻomaka ana i Ianuali 9, 2010, ma muli o ka loaʻa ʻana o ka mana hana aupuni. .
"Haʻaheo ʻo JetBlue i ka lawelawe ʻana i kāna huakaʻi Jamaican lua, ʻo Kingston, ke hoʻomau nei mākou i ka hoʻonui ʻana i kā mākou hana ma ka mokupuni a hoʻomaikaʻi i kā mākou pilina maikaʻi loa me Jamaica a me kona poʻe," wahi a Rob Maruster, JetBlue Airways 'COO. "Ke kakali nei mākou i ka hāʻawi ʻana i ka ʻike lanakila lanakila ʻo JetBlue - piha me nā kīʻaha manuahi, nā mea inu, nā TV backback a me ka nānā ʻana i ka papa - ʻoiai e leʻaleʻa ana i ka ʻike nani loa o nā Blue Mountains e hōʻea ana i Kingston."
Wahi a ka luna hoʻokele mākaʻikaʻi o Jamaica ʻo John Lynch: “Ua hauʻoli mākou i ka hoʻomaka ʻana o JetBlue i kēlā me kēia lā mai New York a i Kingston. E hoʻonui kēia i nā hana hoʻolaha ʻo Diaspora o ka papa. Kūkulu ʻia ka lawelawe hou ma luna o kā mākou pilina e kū nei me ka mokulele, i hoʻomaka i ka lawelawe i Jamaica i Mei, "wahi a Lynch. "He mokulele kaulana ʻo JetBlue Airways, a ke hilinaʻi nei mākou me ka hoʻomaka ʻana o ka lawelawe i kēlā me kēia lā mai New York, Kingston - ka ʻoliʻoli a me ke kapikala moʻomeheu o ka Caribbean - e lilo i wahi punahele no nā malihini hou aʻe mai kēia mākeke."
"E hāʻawi ʻo JetBlue Airways i ka lawelawe hou iā Kingston mai New York me kā lākou lawelawe e kū nei i Montego Bay," wahi a Isiah Parnell, Charge d'Affaires, US Embassy ma Kingston. "ʻO kēia kekahi hiʻohiʻona o ka pilina pili waiwai a me ka pilikanaka ma waena o Jamaica a me ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa. Hauʻoli mākou i ka ʻike ʻana i kahi pilina ʻoihana koʻikoʻi ma waena o kā mākou mau ʻāina ʻelua. "
Ua ʻōlelo ʻo Mark Williams, ka hope pelekikena o ka hoʻomohala pāʻoihana a me ke kūʻai aku ʻana o ka Airport Authority o Jamaica, "Ua hauʻoli nui mākou i ka hoʻokipa ʻana iā JetBlue i Kingston a ke manaʻoʻiʻo nei ko lākou kaulana o ka hāʻawi ʻana i ka lawelawe papa mua e ʻoluʻolu maikaʻi me ka Diaspora Jamaican nui i ka wahi o New York.
