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Between the pandemic reducing travel demand to virtually non-existent levels, post-pandemic inflation making it hard for people to afford vacations, and tariffs raising operating costs and creating economic uncertainty, U.S. airline operators have faced a rough road in the past few years.

Some are coping with these obstacles better than others. Unfortunately, discount carrier JetBlue is not one of them.

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JetBlue has faced ongoing financial troubles, which have only been made worse after the airline was denied the chance at a $3.8 billion merger with Spirit earlier this year on antitrust grounds.

JetBlue has not been profitable since 2019. The airline reported a net loss of $44 million in the fourth quarter of 2024 and a net loss of $208 million in the first quarter of 2025.

Amidst these financial struggles, the airline has now made a drastic decision.

It will be entirely eliminating flights to a major U.S. airport effective September 3, 2025, and anyone who has already booked a flight on JetBlue to head to their destination will be entitled to either divert to a different airport or to get a full refund of the amount they paid for their flight to their original payment method.

The company is canceling flights to a popular tourist destination.

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JetBlue is no longer going to fly to this airport

JetBlue announced on Saturday that it would suspend operations at Miami International Airport (MIA) effective September 3, 2025.

The public announcement came after the airline informed MIA of the planned changes on Friday afternoon, according to an email sent to the Miami Herald by Greg Chin, communications director for the Miami-Dade Aviation Department.

Currently, JetBlue operates only a select number of flights into Miami. The carrier first began providing service to the Miami Airport in 2021 with the goal of increasing its presence in the South Florida area.

At one time, JetBlue was operating around 14 flights daily going into Miami Airport, including flights originating from major cities like:

Boston
New York
Newark
Los Angeles
Hartford

However, the airline has been gradually reducing the number of flights into MIA in light of declining demand in the past few years, and now it has made the final decision to end the last remaining flights that the carrier was sending into the Miami airport.

“To free aircraft for new routes, we’ve recently made the decision to end a small number of unprofitable flights, including between Boston and Miami,” Derek Dombrowski, director of corporate communications, said in a statement emailed to the Miami Herald. “We continually evaluate how our network is performing and make changes as needed.”

Customers can get refunds or fly into an alternative airport

With service scheduled to end in September, there are some passengers who have already booked flights on JetBlue’s planes headed to Miami.

Those customers will be given the choice between getting a full refund to their original payment method or switching to a JetBlue flight into a nearby airport instead.

JetBlue expects to continue to fly into both Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport as well as West Palm Beach, and has an especially strong presence in Fort Lauderdale, serving around 6.8 million passengers at that airport last year. Displaced passengers can choose to switch to a flight into either of these airports instead of going directly into Miami.

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Unfortunately, this means that flyers who thought they had their tickets all set will need to make a decision about whether they want to alter their travel plans or whether they want to accept the refund and rebook tickets themselves.

With September fast approaching, this news may surprise those who thought they had their travel plans sorted. Therefore, it will be important to take swift action to line up alternate transport if needed.