{"id":14075,"date":"2011-10-24T07:30:58","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T11:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=14075"},"modified":"2011-10-24T08:36:45","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T12:36:45","slug":"jetblue-launches-westchester-to-nassau-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/10\/jetblue-launches-westchester-to-nassau-flights","title":{"rendered":"JetBlue Launches Westchester To Nassau Flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In less than a month, JetBlue will begin direct flights from Westchester County Airport to Nassau in the Bahamas, the airline&#8217;s first international flights from Westchester.<\/p>\n<p>But the flights, starting Nov. 15, won&#8217;t require any U.S. customs checks here, because passengers boarding in the Bahamas are &#8220;pre-cleared&#8221; there, said a JetBlue spokesman and Peter Scherrer, general manager of the Westchester airport.<\/p>\n<p>Scherrer said the local airport could only accept flights from airports \u2014 including several in the Caribbean \u2014 where passengers go through U.S. customs checks before returning to the country. &#8220;If they didn&#8217;t have pre-clearance we wouldn&#8217;t be able to get flights in here,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>When the Nassau service begins, JetBlue will fly one flight in and out every day, said airline spokesman Mateo Lleras.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In less than a month, JetBlue will begin direct flights from Westchester County Airport to Nassau, the airline&#8217;s first international flights from Westchester.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[42,73],"class_list":["post-14075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-airlines","tag-travel-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}