With preparations being made for the Ian Fleming Airport in Boscobel, St. Mary, to welcome business flights, the Jamaican authorities is urging vacationers from the USA to utilize the brand new route.
Final Thursday, American Airways carried out a take a look at flight to the airport forward of its scheduled service from Miami beginning subsequent month.
“At the moment’s a historic day, it’s an exquisite day,” stated St Mary Western Member of Parliament Robert Montague after the plane accomplished a lot of landings and take-offs on the former Boscobel aerodrome.
He additionally stated that the American Airways staff “walked by way of the amenities, they skilled the immigration and customs, they seemed on the baggage dealing with service, the amenities for the passengers … and we handed with flying colours.”
“I’m proud, I’m completely happy. I do know the folks of Boscobel, the folks of St Mary, and by extension, the folks of Jamaica are very completely happy,” added Montague.
He urged vacationers to Jamaica, notably these in the USA, to utilize the airport.
“We need to urge all Jamaicans, right here and abroad, who’re planning to journey into the Miami, Fort Lauderdale space to fly by way of Ian Fleming in Boscobel, St Mary,” he stated.
Ian Fleming Worldwide Airport is positioned 20 minutes from Ocho Rios.
As of February 24, American Airways will function twice weekly with an Embraer 175 plane with a capability for 76 passengers from Miami.
A dream realized
Montague stated that there have been days when folks didn’t share the dream, which he had strongly advocated and which obtained better help from Sandals Resorts Worldwide founder Gordon “Butch” Stewart in addition to Transport Minister Daryl Vaz and his predecessor Audley Shaw.
“Individuals even described the ability as a white elephant,” Montague stated of the airport.
“It’s now going to be a serious financial driver. I’m solely saddened that Mr Dudley Beek is just not right here to witness it, he shared the imaginative and prescient. The honorable Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart, who was the primary one that referred to as me, saying he’s going to make sure that American Airways, by way of American Eagle, lands right here at Boscobel, and Mr. Chris Blackwell, who additionally shared the imaginative and prescient, he’s additionally very completely happy.”
The brand new business flights to Ian Fleming Aiport are anticipated to ease wait occasions for vacationers on the Norman Manley Worldwide Airport in Kingston or Sangster Worldwide Airport in Montego Bay, in addition to present an financial increase to St. Mary.
