American Airlines Boosts Commitment to New York with JetBlue Pact
American Airlines promised to take a bigger bite out of the Big Apple today, as the Dallas-based carrier’s CEO, Gerard Arpey, stood with New York

American Airlines promised to take a bigger bite out of the Big Apple today, as the Dallas-based carrier’s CEO, Gerard Arpey, stood with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and JetBlue Airways CEO Dave Barger at the American Airlines Theater near Times Square to announce a series of initiatives aimed at expanding its commitment to New York City and beyond. The centerpiece of the effort involves a new interline partnership between American and JetBlue in New York and Boston and a slot swap between the two airlines that will see American transfer eight slot pairs at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and one slot pair at White Plains, N.Y., to JetBlue, while JetBlue transfers 12 slot pairs at JFK to American.