From its seemingly infinite variety of excellent white-sand seashores to an enviable assortment of luxurious all-inclusive resorts to a dynamic culinary scene, there’s a cause vacationers are flocking to the twin-island hotspot of Antigua and Barbuda.
The massive airways clearly see that too — and the most important United States-based carriers are considerably ramping up their flights to the vacation spot.
It begins with American Airways, which is planning to develop to every day nonstop flights from Charlotte to Antigua starting Dec. 5, which is able to proceed all through the winter season. AA’s New York-Antigua flights can even function every day within the winter.
American’s already-strong Miami-Antigua service will proceed with two every day flights all through the summer season and winter, with year-round flight out of MIA.
Then there’s Delta Air Strains, which is ready to extend service out of Atlanta to twice weekly in the course of the winter seasons in 2024 and 2025.
New York Metropolis-based JetBlue will probably be rising its flights between John F. Kennedy Worldwide Airport and Antigua from 3 times every week to every day nonstop service starting this summer season.
United, too, will probably be operating every day service to Antigua this winter.
“We’re having fun with will increase in airlift from our established markets, with the US persevering with to indicate probably the most enlargement, with extra every day flights added for the crucial summer season and winter months,” mentioned Antigua and Barbuda Tourism Minister Charles Fernandez in an announcement offered to Caribbean Journal. “We’re excited that American Airways will probably be providing every day flights into Antigua from JFK and Charlotte within the winter and sustaining double every day companies from Miami, boosting air connectivity by way of the service’s main hubs.”
The bulletins got here after a busy journey to the current Routes Americas convention in Bogota, which gathered the world’s prime airways and vacationer boards for a full schedule of conferences and negotiations.
Antigua is getting extra new flights because the vacation spot prepares for what ought to be a busy spring season: the highly-anticipated new Royalton CHIC is ready to open its doorways in April, whereas the immediately in style new Antigua & Barbuda Restaurant Week will kick off Could 4, highlighting the vacation spot’s scorching gastronomic motion.
