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Vacation Express Adding New Caribbean Flights

By: Caribbean Journal Staff - March 11, 2019

By the Caribbean Journal staff

Vacation Express is adding several new routes to popular Caribbean destinations including Jamaica, Punta Cana and Cancun.

The company will launch new weekly nonstop flights from New Orleans to Montego Bay between May 25 and June 22, along with new weekly flights from New Orleans to Punta Cana in the same period.

The Montego Bay flights will operate every Saturday, while the Punta Cana service will run weekly on Fridays.

The company is also expanding to the Mexican Caribbean, with weekly Saturday flights from Memphis to Cancun from May 25 to July 27.

The company’s Punta Cana and Montego Bay flights are operated by Swift Air on Boeing 737 aircraft.

VivaAerobus is operating the Memphis-Cancun service.

— CJ

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