OCHO RIOS, Jamaica – Jamaica is happy to have welcomed new continuous air service flight from Miami Worldwide Airport (MIA) to Ian Fleming Worldwide Airport (OCJ) by American Airways on Saturday, February 24th. American is at the moment the one U.S. provider to supply nonstop service into Ocho Rios, offering vacationers with extra handy entry to the northern and japanese components of the island.
“We’re extraordinarily happy to see American Airways, our largest airline accomplice, proceed to develop their service to Jamaica by now flying into all three of our worldwide airports,” stated the Hon. Edmund Bartlett, Minister of Tourism, Jamaica. “The brand new flights are effectively timed to assist our stopover arrivals progress throughout this peak winter season, which we’re projecting to be the perfect we’ve ever recorded.”
The brand new nonstop service to Ocho Rios will function twice weekly on Wednesdays and Saturdays using a 76-seat Embraer 175 plane. It joins greater than 100 peak weekly flights to Jamaica from American Airways and enhances the provider’s current service from MIA to Kingston (KIN) and Montego Bay (MBJ).
With the addition of this new flight, American Airlines now presents nonstop flights to Jamaica from eight U.S. gateways together with Austin, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Miami, New York and Philadelphia.
“Welcoming this new service from the U.S. into Ocho Rios is a historic second for Jamaica,” stated Donovan White, Director of Tourism, Jamaica Vacationer Board. “We’re very grateful to American Airways and anticipate that the brand new flights will assist attract even more visitors to expertise our vacation spot’s distinctive tourism product.”
In a nod to the airport’s title after the writer of the James Bond novels, Ian Fleming, who lived in Jamaica, the brand new flight proudly bears the quantity AA 4007.
