Home air journey between Montego Bay and Kingston is ready to make a comeback, in keeping with Chief Government Officer of MBJ Airports, Shane Munroe.
“Actually, that’s one thing that the Jamaican aviation business has not seen for a really very long time,” Munroe stated throughout MBJ Airports Restricted’s bi-annual digital airport discussion board held Wednesday on Microsoft Groups. MBJ Airports operates Sangster Worldwide Airport (SIA) in St James.
The revived home service is to be operated by LIAT 2020 Restricted, which will even launch new worldwide flights connecting Jamaica to Antigua.
“It has been some time since Montego Bay had direct connectivity to many Caribbean locations and this may occasionally come as a shock to some,” Munroe famous, including, “We stay up for seeing direct flights between Montego Bay and Antigua and connectivity now being prolonged past Antigua to the japanese and southern Caribbean.”
The inaugural flight between Jamaica and Antigua is scheduled for July 11, however Munroe didn’t specify when the Kingston–Montego Bay home service would start.
LIAT’s social media pages, nonetheless, have been selling a July 11 begin date for the flights, with charges of USD $122.
LIAT 2020 Restricted started operations on August 6, 2024, and is a three way partnership between the Authorities of Antigua and Barbuda and Nigerian airline Air Peace. It succeeds LIAT (1974), which beforehand supplied regional air service throughout the Caribbean.
Jamaica has not had common home flights between Montego Bay and Kingston since Air Jamaica Categorical, a subsidiary of Air Jamaica, discontinued the route in 2015. Jam Airlink Categorical briefly crammed the hole when it launched operations in July 2019, however the airline not gives scheduled home flights.
