Low-cost, Considerable Airlift Fueling Continued Puerto Rico Tourism Surge

Low-cost, plentiful airlift has been the not-so-secret sauce to Puerto Rico’s dramatic tourism rebound because the pandemic, and it’s a development that exhibits no indicators of slowing down. 

Final month, passenger visitors at San Juan’s air hub of Luis Munoz Marin Worldwide Airport worse by one other 9.4 p.c in comparison with April 2023, with whole visitors at 1.034 million. 

The island continues to see new flights from cities throughout the mainland United States (and, more and more from worldwide markets like Spain and the Dominican Republic), and the flights are, nicely, full. 

Certainly, worldwide visitors was robust as nicely final month, with visitors of 108,512 from worldwide markets to Puerto Rico final month, itself a 9.2 p.c enhance. (For the 12 months, worldwide visitors is up 19.2 p.c)

For the 12 months, passenger visitors at Luis Munoz Marin is at 4.296 million, an 11.5 p.c enhance in comparison with the primary 4 months of final 12 months, in response to knowledge supplied by ASUR, which manages Puerto Rico’s major airport. 

Many of the progress from the mainland US Market in Puerto Rico has come on carriers like Frontier, which has made Puerto Rico a precedence in its Caribbean growth — and, extra just lately, positioned itself as a brand new worldwide air hub inside the Caribbean.