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Delta Begins New York-St Lucia Service

By: Caribbean Journal Staff - December 21, 2014 - 8:18 am

Above: St Lucia (CJ Photo)

By the Caribbean Journal staff

Delta Airlines has officially begun new its new service from New York to Saint Lucia.

The inaugural New York-St Lucia flight touched down at St Lucia’s Hewanorra International Airport on Saturday afternoon.

The new service is part of a wider expansion push for the American carrier, which launched two new routes to Barbados earlier this month.

The weekly service out of John F Kennedy International Airport will operate every Saturday throughout the year.

The flights are operated on a Boeing 737-800 with 160 seats; the service departs New York at 8:30 AM, arriving in St Lucia at 2:10 PM.

The return flights depart St Lucia at 3:15 PM, arriving in New York around 7:07 PM.

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