JetBlue Airways has announced that it will be pulling a number of idle planes from airports as part of proposals to add two dozen destinations before the year ends and hopefully make money again.

The carrier said the new routes will be in territories where it expects demand for leisure travel to rise. The flights will start in November and December, JetBlue disclosed on September 10. The Airbus A320 jet will be tapped for service for most flights being the tried and tested plane of the company.

Airline companies around the world have been struggling to revive their business through cost-reducing measures until demand normalizes in the face of an ongoing global health turmoil.

The New York-based airline has already added flights to seven destinations so far since the pandemic began. According to Scott Laurence, JetBlue's revenue and planning director, the move is the latest example of the company's capability to be versatile and "play offense as we quickly adjust to new customer behaviors and booking patterns."

Most of the new destinations see the airline expanding in non-hub routes as demand shifts to leisure travel, a market segment where JetBlue already has a strong foothold.

The airline expects four markets to experience the most growth including Raleigh, North Carolina; Newark; Richmond, Virginia, and Los Angeles, all of which are secondary destinations for JetBlue.

International flights to the Caribbean and Latin American destinations that allow American citizens comprise majority of the airline's expansion as U.S. citizens long for cross-border travel.

JetBlue disclosed that it extended a program in which change fees are eliminated for new booking processed through Feb. 28, 2021. The extension has been made after a number of carriers announced they will waive change fees for good.

JetBlue bared in June that it would add 30 new local destinations and agreed on a strategic deal with American Airlines Group to enhance flying services in Boston and New York.

The company recently announced that it anticipates its third quarter flight volume to drop around 45 percent compared to the same figure in 2019, after a conventional approach to infusing more flights back to its normal flight schedule.

Stocks of JetBlue, which fell 0.1 percent during early morning session, has retreated 35 percent year-to-date, while the U.S. Global Jets exchange-traded fund has lost 43 percent and the S&P 500 rose around 5.3 percent.

JetBlue had $3.5 billion in liquidity by end of June and had earlier estimated a daily cash loss between around $7 million and $8 million for the third quarter.