Jet Blue Starts Orlando-Montego Bay Flights

Jamaica’s tourism industry continues to demonstrate positive outlook in the country’s economy, with Jet Blue’s inaugural flight from Orlando, Florida to the Sangster International Airport, Montego Bay, on Monday with 65 passengers on board.

This flight marked the beginning of a daily non-stop flight from the busy and lucrative tropical Orlando/Miami area to Jamaica’s tourist capital, Montego Bay, by way of a Jet Blue100-seater aircraft. This increases to four the number of flights being operated by the carrier between the USA and Jamaica.

Regional Director of the Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB), Rose-Marie Johnson (centre), being assisted in cutting the celebration cake by Captain Kenneth Schulte of Jet Blue Airlines after its inaugural flight from Orlando landed at the Sangster International Airport, Montego Bay on February 8.

Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) Regional Director, Rose-Marie Johnson, said that the flight symbolized a very strong show of confidence in destination Jamaica by Jet Blue Airlines.

“Today is a very upbeat day for Jamaica’s tourism. It is a very good show of confidence in the destination, in the fact that Jet Blue has launched another service into Jamaica. That means that the confidence in the destination is very high and we are very appreciative of Jet Blue, our strategic partner,” Johnson told JIS News.

Manager of Jet Blue Caribbean and Latin American operations, Chad Meyerson, told JIS News that Montego Bay and Jamaica’s air travel have been ‘incredibly successful’ for the organization, and are the most successful in Jet Blue’s history.

He said that Jet Blue was always looking for destinations customers want to travel to, and where the airline feels it offers a superior product to serve its customer-base.