Air Jamaica and Air Canada join forces to expand service between Canada and Jamaica

Air Canada and Air Jamaica have joined forces to greatly improve air service for travelers between Canada and Jamaica. The two carriers have started selling seats on each other’s flights on a code share basis between Toronto-Kingston and Toronto-Montego Bay.

Concurrent with this expanded commercial agreement that increases the ease of travel and access for consumers to more flights on either Air Jamaica or Air Canada, the two carriers announced improved schedules featuring increased non-stop flights to and from both Kingston and Montego Bay for the first time.

Effective April 5, 2004, Air Jamaica will operate daily Lovebird Service between Kingston and Toronto. Flight JM079 (AC9831) departs Kingston at 2:00pm daily to arrive at the Lester B. Pearson International Airport in Toronto at 7:15pm. On the return, JM078 (AC9830) will depart Toronto at 8:45am daily to arrive in Kingston at 11:50am. The airline’s state of the art Airbus A321 aircraft with 12 Top Class and 176 Economy Class seats will operate these flights.

In addition, Air Canada will operate twice weekly flights, Tuesdays and Fridays, on the Toronto-Kingston route with 120-seat Airbus A319 aircraft in a two class configuration offering a choice of Executive Class and Hospitality service. This represents a total of as many as nine weekly non-stop flights between Toronto and Kingston offered on a code share basis – a substantial increase in non-stop service from the five weekly flights offered prior years.

In a further improvement to Canada-Jamaica air service, effective April 4, 2004 Air Canada will increase its Montego Bay flights to daily service, offered on a code share basis with Air Jamaica. Daily flights will be operated with 140-seat Airbus A320 aircraft versus the four times weekly service in prior years.