Four weekly non-stop flights to Jamaica from Hartford

Effective December 15 this year, American low cost carrier Spirit Airlines will begin direct flights from Hartford International Airport in Connecticut to Montego Bay in St James, Jamaica.

The airline will be providing four weekly non-stop flights to Jamaica from Hartford. The announcement of the airline’s services to Jamaica has been hailed by several Jamaicans in and around Connecticut, which has the third largest Jamaican population.

Connecticut trails Miami and New York in having the largest Jamaican resident population.

GREATER CONVENIENCE FOR TRAVELERS

Jamaica’s Director of Tourism Donovan White says the service will provide additional marketing opportunities and allow the island to “pull on traffic that may have been intended for other destinations”.

The direct connection, according to White, will make it more convenient for travelers and easier for tourists to choose Jamaica as their destination. He expresses his support for the service, noting that it has been highly anticipated.

“We welcome these opportunities. It has been one that we have been working assiduously on and anticipating now for some time. So, to have it come to fruition, it is absolutely redounding to the hard work by the team,” White says.

The Director of Tourism adds that the move is a positive one for its business development officers in the marketplace and will give them an additional region to focus on, in terms of driving marketing, and in driving our sales and promotional activities.

Spirit Airlines Inc is a major American ultra-low-cost carrier headquartered in Miramar, Florida, in the Miami metropolitan area. Spirit operates scheduled flights throughout the United States and in the Caribbean and Latin America.

Spirit was the eighth largest passenger carrier in North America as of 2020, as well as the largest ultra-low-cost carrier in North America.