savethemanuals wrote:Tried the winter sun gig in W23 with BGI, MBJ and KIN ex LGW, with the Jamaican flights being nothing short of a disaster.
Virgin Atlantic will expand its flight frequency to Jamaica from March 31 2024. The airline will offer five to seven non-stop flights per week, all year round, from London Heathrow (LHR) to Montego Bay (MBJ). Operations on Saturday and Sunday will take place in low season. I reckon they meant opera...
Jump to postJamaica will get a new carrier from the UK this winter with Norse Atlantic commencing service to Mobay in December however they have cancel flights to Kingston which was suppose to start this October Norse Atlantic Cuts London Gatwick-Kingston Boeing 787 Service Before 1st Flight I am disappointed ...
Jump to postWell it seems WN may be flying to KIN by year end if all goes according to plan. Just a matter of time. "However, the center point of the discussion was the possibility of Southwest opening a route to Kingston's Norman Manley International Airport (KIN) and making it a hub for its expansion.&qu...
Jump to postA lot has been happening where new services to Jamaica is concerned, as well as some discontinuation. I note F9's TPA-MBJ was very short lived. Strange enough NW got that sector to work for many years back in the day. I know for a while it was operated as MSP-TPA-MBJ-TPA-MSP. Arajet starts SDQ-KIN n...
Jump to postDid AA cancel PHL-KIN? If so, did it ever actually fly or was it axed before the first flight? The majority of the flights were flown with the A21N. Those loads are atrocious. I can see why it was axed. That is surprising though. There is a decent sized Jamaican diaspora in PHL and they could’ve al...
Jump to postBA will end their seasonal services on Apr 24 and return Nov 2 at 2 weekly Thought they would have stick around for the peak summer travel season. Impressive growth by F9. To date DEN, TPA and ATL-KIN are new additions. More routes will be announced this year. The recent meetings between their CEO,...
Jump to postFrontier has announced a 3 weekly MIA-KIN service. Beginning May 5, 2022, flights will operate Sun, Tues and Thurs. Great that there will now be a choice of 2 carriers on the KIN-MIA route that AA enjoyed a monopoly on for many years. I would never have predicted that F9 would have grown so much at...
Jump to postYesterday DL inaugurated A333 services from ATL-MBJ. DL last operated widebody services on the route with their B763ERs during the early 2000s Very impressive the number of wide bodies that have been operating to the island since the latter part of 2021 into the 2022 from AA, AC & now DL with t...
Jump to postSo B6's love affair with Jamaica continues. By summer they will be operating 9x daily from JFK to the island. More than likely the majority of those rotations will be on the A321s. "In what is being hailed as a huge boost to Jamaica's tourism industry, JetBlue will, by June, operate up to nine ...
Jump to postMyself and some of my aviation colleagues and friends wanted to know the reason for the location of the new control tower at MBJ. Truth be told the previous control tower had become very outdated. Conversely when the new gates were constructed on the eastern side of the terminal, air traffic contro...
Jump to postKX will increase KIN to 3 weekly. This is one guarded route. I guess flights to MBJ will also be resumed in short order. AA plans to operate 17 daily flights to Jamaica for winter. LAX I believe will re-appear next year, Quite impressive frequency by AA in the grand scheme of things. Regarding LAX,...
Jump to postHas DFW always been daily? Incredible capacity for a DFW-Caribbean market IMHO. Cheers, DFW operates daily for most of the year. AA1818 It should also be noted that on some days they operate 2x daily DFW-MBJ services. Also in the past they operated the route with the B757s at times too. The pandemi...
Jump to postAA has filed for 3x weekly PHL-KIN. Service starts on Dec 5, 2021. Sun Mon and Thur with A321. Flights are already seen as available on the aa.com website This new route by AA is very interesting. I didn't see this one coming to be honest. I would have expected them to start with the B738s & th...
Jump to post-F9 first announced $89 fares. Fares now vary between $239-$329 including 1 free checked bag and carry on. According to F9, these are the lowest fares on the route. Do the math!!!! The 1 free checked bag + carry on combined with those attractive fares alone would be enough impetus for me to head to...
Jump to postI remember in the early 1990s where we had many charters from STL. At one point TW entered with a scheduled 1 weekly service using their MDs. JM did the ground handling. Demand has resurrected and I see them doing 2-3 weekly next year. When AA took over TW I recall them deploying the B752 on STL-MB...
Jump to postTake a look at MBJ's arrival ... Nice line up considering the current global situation with the pandemic. Well for those who were not aware, F9 will inaugurate MIA-MBJ on May 28th, 2021. "Denver, Colorado-based Frontier Airlines is expanding service to Jamaica arising from increased travel dem...
Jump to postJetBlue suspends flight attendant Kalina Collier who falsely claimed that she was being kidnapped in Jamaica, after she was placed under quarantine. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/american-was-alleged-have-been-kidnapped-jamaica-authorities-say-it-n1257947 The CEO has issued an apology to the...
Jump to postB6 will inaugurate daily flights from EWR & RDU to MBJ soon ... "The new routes will include one daily flight to Aruba; two daily flights to Cancun, Mexico; one daily flight to Montego Bay, Jamaica ..." http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20200913/jetblue-launch-major-expansion-car...
Jump to postBA returns to MBJ. KIN had it's first service this past Mon. I had a gut feeling they would be back in MBJ at some point sooner or later. Great that they will resume that service albeit 2x weekly. Hopefully they will stay this time around, but that will depend on how the route perform. BW seems to ...
Jump to postThere’s also mention of (re)starting KIN-MIA daily. Didn't see this one coming, but let's see how it will play out in the long run. **DL JFK-KIN DEC 0.4>0[1.0] JAN 1.0>0[1.0] FEB 1.0>0[1.0] MAR 1.0>0[1.0] APR 1.0>0[0.7] MAY 1.0>0[0] This is an interesting case. DL re-entered the market during OJ's ...
Jump to postDOT Stats July 2019. 1885 1844 Spirit Air Lines KIN MCO. Surprised they did not make this a seasonal route than to drop it completely eff next month. 1885 1453 Spirit Air Lines MCO KIN When they inaugurated this route I was expecting it to be seasonal. Guess it did not perform to their expectations...
Jump to postNo worries. OJ ended up exactly where many of us predicted that it would, with its lofty dreams of MBJ, BGI, FLL, Brazil, 6 planes and an IPO. Which is exactly why there isn't a need to be asking about them over & over again like a stuck record. Again the thread has more than enough info about ...
Jump to postJCAA Applications. MBJ's runway expansion will occur Q12020. I wasn't aware that they also plan to relocate the threshold of runway 07. Looking forward to the runway extension & the expansion/revamping of Sangster in general. On another note I used MBJ in August & the check-in process was q...
Jump to posthummingbird wrote:
I don't believe the KIN-GCM is generating strong sales as witnessed by their current ads.
AA has added A332 to PHL-MBJ eff Dec 18. Philadelphia – Montego Bay eff 18DEC19 A330-200 operates 1 daily, replacing A321 (Overall 15 weekly) AA857 PHL0820 – 1211MBJ 332 D AA857 MBJ1316 – 1652PHL 332 D I knew AA would deploy their A332s to MBJ eventually. Pretty cool! They are now offering some dee...
Jump to posthummingbird wrote:
B6 is now doing 8 flights to MBJ.
2 ex MCO
2 ex FLL
4 ex JFK.
I wonder what will happen once AA joins the market. Will be very interesting to see how it will all play out. Once again the "heat" is turning up on another very popular sector. Not bad for a new service 1800 1656 Delta Air Lines Inc. JFK KIN 1620 1206 Delta Air Lines Inc. KIN JFK Guess t...
Jump to postAs expected, for the upcoming winter season flight operations will be beefed up. It's interesting to note that AA will resume daily JFK-MBJ services starting November 21st, 2019 after their hiatus. So there will be 4 carriers battling it out on that sector. DL will also be increasing DTW-MBJ service...
Jump to posthummingbird wrote:A new domestic carrier, JAM AIR will offer flights between MBJ and Negril and MBJ- KTP. See schedules below. Personally, not a fan of the name.
The fourth daily flight is from 13 June to 3 September. The competition will be BW and DL who both have a daily flight. I don't think B6 is perturbed by BWs & DLs daily service on the KIN-JFK route. AA 2370 doing KIN - MIA had hydraulics issues on Tuesday morning. Landed safely in MIA none the ...
Jump to postI agree. I am not Spirit’s demographic nor have I ever set foot on one of their planes, but I really like the yellow and black look. At least it’s something unique and different. The previous look was incredibly cheap and uninspired. The mosaic look was cool, and they maybe could have developed tha...
Jump to postHonestly I am not a fan of NK, but I do like their newest livery. Bright, bold & in your face. I think their objective with this "yellow" livery was to ensure that it easily grabs attention ... which it does. I disliked their previous 2 liveries, especially the "black" one. E...
Jump to postLatest JCAA applications. 2. Copa Airlines . For the period listed flights will operate 6 weekly. No flight on Sunday. I am always curious about the market segmentation on these CM flights into KIN. Very impressive how CM's frequency into KIN has grown. I suspect the flight is still popular with ma...
Jump to postJCAA Applications. Norwind will now operate year round service. KIN-FLL is now showing daily services in Sept and Oct. Impressive growth from NK into Jamaica. On some days MBJ will see 4 NK flights with services from- DTW, BWI, FLL and MCO. With NK serving MCO-KIN year round not sure how this will ...
Jump to postOAG Changes. https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1415825 NK BWI-MBJ SEP 0.1>0.8[0.8] NOV 0>0.3[0.9] NK FLL-KIN SEP 0.1>1.0[0.8] OCT 0>1.0[0.7] NOV 0>0.4[0.6] NK FLL-MBJ SEP 0.1>0.8[0.8] NOV 0>0.3[0.9] NK KIN-MCO SEP 0.1>0.4[0] OCT 0>0.4[0] NOV 0>0.2[0] NK MBJ-MCO SEP 0.1>0.6[0] ...
Jump to posthummingbird wrote:
B6 MBJ-MCO AUG 1.0>1.9[1.0]
NK will start 4 weekly MCO-MBJ in Mar. B6 defending it's turf??
DL started JFK-KIN services with an A320. Quickly up gauged to the B739. Both ATL and JFK-KIN services were operated with the B739 as the inbound JFK aircraft continues to ATL and the inbound ATL aircraft continues to JFK after the RON. DL fares to JFK from KIN are cheaper than the other carriers t...
Jump to postThis video is a tour of MBJ plus it shows the renovations that's going on in the check in lobby. https://youtu.be/n46dvORniC4 Great stuff. Eager for them to revamp the departure lounge area that house gates 1 to 4 that desperately needs a face lift. "...But countless Jamaicans on this thread w...
Jump to postI saw on another website the aircraft has been declared a W/O and they will acquire a B757 from SBA Airlines. Service entry is Jan 2019. From what I have read in the past, SBA Airlines' B757s are notoriously famous for tech delays. Let's see how this will play out for OJ. **Seem WN will launch STL-...
Jump to postNope... I couldn't get any confirmation as to who they will ask for help. I do want to lean toward National, though. They used National several times in the past. Myself suspect that they will use their birds again. Spirit Airlines will open MCO to KIN and MBJ next year. MCO-MBJ is a re-launch for ...
Jump to posthummingbird wrote:OJ's B757 was headed to YYZ from GEO. The aircraft departed GEO at 2:09am. The aircraft climbed to 20,000ft then returned to GEO where it overshot the runway.
I say so because them leaving still leaves multiple options with JetBlue, Spirit and Southwest, with multiple flights during the daily/weekly. I wish them well, though. Well the intense competition from B6, NK & WN is exactly why they are throwing in the towel on the MBJ-FLL route. They just co...
Jump to postAll I can do is laugh because regardless of the size of the aircraft and the routes mentioned, folks here and the Caribbean Thread spoke so negatively and how it would be cost prohibitive etc but here it is a carrier acquires one of the aircraft discussed to do the same job so how come now none of ...
Jump to postI expect a shift in B6's market share to KIN with the recent announcement of additional baggage fees. If only OJ could get their act together. B6 will not be my first choice of carrier when making travel plans. Not sure why they still classify themselves as a "low cost" carrier because fr...
Jump to postWell I used to be a B6 fan, but have since switched to WN 3 years ago. If this baggage fee hike is indeed true, it will only push me away from B6 even further. Might as well I continue flying WN or one of the legacies if WN cannot get me to my final destination from Jamaica. Fingers crossed I hope W...
Jump to postThis is what you do when you have total monopoly on the route. I have been saying for years, this route needs competition. It was just a matter of time. Being the only carrier on that sector they can hike fares & charge for each checked luggage with little or no impact whatsoever. More Canadian...
Jump to post-Flights will operate on Tue, Thur and Sat. BW’s changes to MBJ-FLL will likely hurt them on KIN-FLL as well as they’ll have to re-time the flights on days they aren’t flying MBJ-FLL and will lose the early morning departure out of KIN and the late return out of FLL. It will likely make them less a...
Jump to postSpirit Airlines will launch seasonal flights between DTW and MBJ eff Dec 20. Two weeks ago Sunwing announced a 2 weekly DTW-MBJ service eff Jan-April 2019. DL is expected to release their winter schedule from DTW in the next few week. I expect DL to do 4-6 weekly. Spirit Airlines yesterday announce...
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