On Thursday, KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett introduced {that a} file 1.05 million airline seats have been secured from almost six thousand flights coming into Jamaica out of the US through the upcoming winter season.
With simply over two weeks for winter vacationers to begin their holidays, in anticipation of a file winter vacationer season, Minister Bartlett stated – “This surge in airlift represents a rise of 13 p.c over winter 2022/2023, the place we recorded a whopping 923,000 airline seats.”
“So far, ten airways have some 5,914 flights booked out of key US gateways to the Sangster Worldwide Airport in Montego Bay and Norman Manley Worldwide Airport in Kingston between January and April 2024, including to the flurry anticipated over the 2023 Christmas vacation interval.”
The road-up of airways for the interval contains American with 305,436 seats booked on 1,727 flights; Southwest logging 106,925 seats on 611 flights; Delta with 205,776 seats on 1,119 flights; JetBlue with a complete of 242,347 seats on 1,434 flights; United reserving 92,911 seats on 525 flights and Frontier flying in with 25,482 seats on 137 flights.
Additionally contributing to the general enhance of 121,104 seats over the 2022/23 winter interval are Spirit, Solar Nation, and ALG Constitution, with a mixed 65,677 seats on 361 flights.
Further airlift is slated to return from Caribbean Airways flying out of New York.
“These numbers mirror the continuing effort of the Ministry of Tourism, via the Jamaica Vacationer Board (JTB) as our advertising arm, working alongside our worldwide and native companions within the journey and hospitality sectors, to make sure steady progress in our tourism business,” Bartlett stated.
He additionally disclosed that “already for the interval, January to November 29, 2023, preliminary figures point out that some 2.5 million stopover guests have graced our shores, accounting for an 18 p.c enhance over the identical interval in 2022 and a ten p.c enhance over the identical interval in pre-pandemic 2019.”
“If we proceed on this spectacular progress trajectory, we will probably be on observe to fulfill our new projections of 4 million guests and overseas trade earnings of US$4.1 billion by year-end.”
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