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14.06.2024 - 12:49 / travelandleisure.com / John F.Kennedy / Felipe Carrillo Puerto
JetBlue’s first-ever flight to Tulum in Mexico took off on Thursday, with passengers leaning into the aisle, waiving Mexican and American flags in the air, and cheering as the plane prepared to pull out from the gate. The excitement was palpable, just as you would expect for not just a new route, but a brand-new airport.
The flags had been placed at each seat along with a vintage-looking postcard (with a JetBlue plane in the background, of course) for the early morning flight. But the fanfare first started at the gate, which was decorated with balloon pillars. Passengers were offered celebratory breakfast burritos and fruit towers.
Tulum’s Felipe Carrillo Puerto Tulum International Airport (TQO) first opened to international flights this spring, and major carriers immediately started calling it home, including American Airlines and Delta Air Lines. Before it opened, travelers had to fly into Cancun and then trek two hours to Tulum.
Getting to Tulum (and even traveling beyond Tulum) with the new airport has been a real game changer, Andrés Martínez Reynoso, the director of the Quintana Roo Tourism Board, told Travel + Leisure at the gate following a lively ribbon-cutting ceremony.
“We’re already seeing a different dynamic that we never had [because] people planned their vacation [around] landing in Cancun,” Martínez Reynoso said, adding, “It's changing the way we look at our own destination … Now with Tulum, it brings especially the destinations that we have in the south … closer to the north of the state. In a way, people are going to have more options when they vacation there.”
With its new flight, JetBlue has become the only airline to fly direct to Tulum from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK).
This is what it was like on board JetBlue’s inaugural flight to Tulum, and what it’s like when you arrive.
From the moment we crossed the jetway and boarded, you could tell this flight was special. Alternating flags from the United States and Mexico welcomed passengers to their seats along with a canvas pouch to keep as a souvenir. Even the pilots were excited, coming out of the cockpit to brief passengers on the flight path.
The celebrations continued with a round of in-flight Bingo for passengers on board during which the flight crew selected a letter and scrolled through seat numbers to pick a random winner. Like the Price is Right, winners were told to “come on down,” dancing their way down the aisles to cheers and high-fives.
The prizes were certainly worth getting excited for: two $500 certificates for a JetBlue Vacations travel package and a pair of roundtrip tickets for two to anywhere the airline flies.
The flight itself was not terribly long at just about three and a half
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