Jamaica welcomes return of Cayman Airways to Montego Bay
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Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett led Jamaica’s delegation welcoming Cayman Airways weekly service from Grand Cayman into the Sangster International Airport in the second city of Montego Bay, St James.
The flight, which arrived on August 4, marked the first time the carrier has operated this route since the pandemic. Cayman Airways’ flight KX2602 will operate weekly on Thursdays, utilising a 160-seat Boeing 738 aircraft.
Said Bartlett: “I could not be more pleased to welcome back this service by Cayman Airways. The key to growing visitor arrivals and building tourism is airlift.”
Continuing, Bartlett added: “The resumption of these flights into Montego Bay is an important step in making Jamaica an aviation hub and building better inter-island connectivity within the Caribbean so that travelers can enjoy multiple destinations in one trip.”
Cayman Airways will also operates daily flights between Grand Cayman and Kingston’s Norman Manley International Airport with twice-daily flights on Fridays. The addition of the Thursday flight to Montego Bay brings the carrier’s total number of weekly flights to Jamaica to nine.
For his part, Tourism Director Donovan White remarked: “Having smaller airline partners like Cayman Airways operate into more airports in Jamaica helps us build capacity into various areas within the destination. We want to make it easier for passengers to be able fly into one island on a larger carrier, then use a smaller one to connect to their final destination.”
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