JetBlue announces Vermont/Florida service

JetBlue Airways Corp. will start nonstop service from Burlington, Vt., to Orlando Jan. 10 -- the only nonstop Florida flights from the Green Mountain State.

JetBlue said this morning promotional fares as low as $158 round-trip for purchases before Aug. 31 and regular fares as low as $198 round-trip will be available. Flights, on 100-seat jets with satellite television at every seat, will leave Burlington daily at 8:10 a.m. and return from Orlando at 6 p.m. Flying time is about 3 hours and 20 minutes each way.

JetBlue currently offers four flights from Burlington to its hub at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, from which Vermonters and passengers from upstate New York and Quebec can make connections to Florida and Caribbean destinations.
(By Peter J. Howe, Globe staff)