JetBlue can be ending flights to Bogota, Colombia; Quito, Ecuador; Lima, Peru; and Kansas Metropolis, Missouri, in June, and flights between Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and Austin, Atlanta, Nashville and Salt Lake Metropolis in addition to between New York and Detroit.”With much less plane time obtainable and the necessity to enhance our monetary efficiency, greater than ever, each route has to earn its proper to remain within the community,” Dave Jehn, vice chairman of community planning and airline partnerships, stated within the memo.Together with transcontinental flying, JetBlue stated it would give attention to “bread and butter” routes alongside the East Coast, and people serving Caribbean trip locations.CEO Joanna Geraghty is a month into the highest job and is underneath rising strain to scale back bills and return the airline to profitability after activist investor Carl Icahn disclosed a virtually 10% stake within the provider final month and gained two board seats.JetBlue had already begun a cost-cutting program earlier than Icahn’s stake and stated in January that it was on monitor to scale back bills by $200 million by the tip of the 12 months. The provider trimmed another routes earlier this 12 months, CNBC reported.The adjustments introduced Tuesday do not have an effect on JetBlue’s deliberate capability for the 12 months, which it expects to be down within the low single digits from 2023, the memo stated.JetBlue is charting its path as a stand-alone airline after a decide blocked its plan to buy Spirit Airways in January. JetBlue walked away from that deal fully earlier this month. Final 12 months, a separate decide knocked down its partnership with American Airways within the Northeast.