Southwest Airlines Relaunching Two Routes to Montego Bay

By: - December 10th, 2020
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Montego Bay, Jamaica.

Southwest Airlines is planning to relaunch two daily routes to Jamaica’s tourism hub of Montego Bay early next year, Caribbean Journal has learned.

The low-cost carrier will be relaunching daily flights from both Houston Hobby and Chicago Midway to Montego Bay on March 11, 2021. 

Southwest has become the largest airline at Houston Hobby Airport, with up to 161 flights a day to almost 70 destinations across the U.S., the Caribbean and Latin America. 

Jamaica reopened for tourism in June. You can find more on the country’s travel protocols here. 

— CJ

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