Even within the top of summer season, when many Caribbean locations see a lighter load of vacationers, Puerto Rico is displaying no indicators of slowing down.
The vacation spot’s low-cost flight-driven post-Covid renaissance is constant, with super-low airfares (and copious obtainable airlift) serving to to drive a ten.5 % progress in passenger site visitors in July on the island’s largest air hub.
Luis Munoz Marin Worldwide Airport had passenger site visitors of 1.408 million final month, up from 1.275 million in July 2023.
For the yr, the numbers are simply as sturdy: whole passenger site visitors of 8.14 million to this point this yr, representing a ten.3 % enhance in comparison with the primary seven months of 2023.
Because of Puerto Rico’s comparatively low air taxes (in comparison with the remainder of the Caribbean), it’s been capable of hold flight costs low, making certain continued tourism progress all through the post-pandemic interval.
That’s additionally led to an enormous variety of new flights from throughout the mainland United States on carriers like American, JetBlue, Spirit and Frontier.