InselAir Increasing Flights to Haiti, Jamaica, Suriname

By: - June 24th, 2015

Above: an InselAir plane

By Dana Niland
CJ Contributor

In response to what it said was rising demand, Dutch Caribbean air carrier InselAir is increasing the frequency of its flights from Curacao to several locations around the Caribbean.

Beginning June 2, InselAir began offering daily flights to Santo Domingo be adding two extra direct flights to its prior schedule.

In order to improve connectivity to and from Port-au-Prince, the airline will be adding a third weekly flight to the Haitian capital starting in early July.

InselAir will also now offer eight weekly flights to Paramaribo, Suriname, by adding an additional Friday flight to the previously once-daily schedule.

The airline is additionally adding a Wednesday morning flight to Kingston, Jamaica, which ups its weekly coverage to three flights to the city per week.

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