JetBlue Airways announced a significant expansion to its route network on Thursday. Included in the announcement was the launching of a new base at Newark. The new base will compliment the airline’s large hub at New York-JFK.

The New York-based airline has focus cities in New York, Boston, Fort Lauderdale, Orlando and San Juan.

COVID-19 is changing the airline industry dramatically and jetBlue had prior to March been trying to fend off competition from American and Delta in Boston as well as from Southwest and Spirit in Fort Lauderdale.

The airline will grow not only Fort Lauderdale and Orlando with the announced expansion, but also secondary Florida points. In an era when the major US airlines are retrenching to hub airports to maximize connecting traffic, jetBlue is launching a whole bunch of point-to-point flights which will be interesting to analyze once we have data on passenger loads.

The new routes include the first nonstop service between south Florida ( Fort Lauderdale) and Portland, Oregon as well as several new services from the northeast and Midwest to Florida.

Here is a full list of new Florida city pairs:

Effective July 23

• Newark-Jacksonville

Effective August 6

• Newark-Sarasota/Bradenton

These two additions bring jetBlue’s Newark destination list to Florida to seven (Fort Lauderdale, Fort Myers, Jacksonville, Orlando, Sarasota/Bradenton, Tampa & West Palm Beach)

Effective August 6

• New York-LaGuardia to Fort Myers and Tampa

These two additions bring jetBlue’s LaGaurdia destination list to Florida to five (Fort Lauderdale, Fort Myers, Orlando, Tampa & West Palm Beach)

• Philadelphia to Fort Myers, Orlando, Tampa and West Palm Beach

These four additions bring jetBlue’s Phildelphia destination list to Florida to seven (Fort Lauderdale, Fort Myers, Orlando, Tampa & West Palm Beach)

Effective October 1

• Providence to Fort Myers and Tampa

These two additions bring jetBlue’s Providence destination list to Florida to four (Fort Lauderdale, Fort Myers, Orlando & Tampa)

• Washington (National) to Tampa

This addition brings jetBlue’s Washington-National destination list to Florida to five (Fort Lauderdale, Fort Myers, Orlando, Tampa & West Palm Beach)

• Fort Myers to Cleveland

JetBlue currently serves Fort Lauderdale from Cleveland

• West Palm Beach to Chicago (O’Hare)

JetBlue currently serves Fort Lauderdale from Chicago

• Orlando to San Francisco

JetBlue currently served Fort Lauderdale from San Fransisco

• Fort Lauderdale & West Palm Beach to Pittsburgh

These are the first Florida destinations from Pittsburgh

• Fort Lauderdale to Seattle

This is the first Florida destination from Seattle

• Fort Lauderdale to Portland, Oregon

This is the first Florida destination from Portland