JetBlue: Two Mexico City routes will start Oct. 1

JetBlue will begin flying to Mexico City on Oct. 1, launching daily nonstop service from its Florida bases of Fort Lauderdale and Orlando.

The airline will fly one daily round-trip flight on each route using 150-seat Airbus A320 aircraft. JetBlue will offer connecting service to and from Mexico City via both of its Florida focus cities.

Mexico City will become JetBlue's second destination in Mexico and its 35th in the Latin America and Caribbean region. The airline will fly to Mexico City's main airport, Benito Juárez International.

"Mexico City is a destination that we have been very eager to add to our network," Dave Clark, JetBlue's VP of network planning, says in a statement.

JetBlue will not face direct competition from U.S. airlines on those routes, though ultra low-cost carrier Spirit Airlines flies from Fort Lauderdale to Toluca, which functions as a secondary airport for Mexico City. JetBlue will, however, face competition from Mexican carriers Aeromexico and Volaris.

JetBlue first revealed its intention to fly to Meixco City in November of 2014, when it asked the U.S. Department of Transportation for the flight rights to fly two routes to Mexico City.

U.S.-Mexico aviation restrictions currently cap the number of airlines that can fly on any U.S.-Mexico route. However, that restriction will fade away when a new civil aviation agreement between the U.S. and Mexico takes effect Jan. 1, 2016.