More Flights from Canada to the Caribbean This Winter

By: - May 31st, 2021
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The beach in Cancun.

Sunwing is set to relaunch a wave of flights to the Caribbean out of the Atlantic coast of Canada this winter, Caribbean Journal has learned. 

The Canadian travel giant will resume service from Halifax to eight different destinations in January 2022, from Cancun and Montego Bay to Punta Cana and Varadero. 

All of the flights will operate once each week, with service running through the first and second week of May. 

That includes flights to Cancun, Montego Bay, Puerto Plata, Punta Cana, Cayo Coco, Cayo Santa Maria, Holguin and Varadero. 

Sunwing will also be resuming weekly flights from Moncton to the Caribbean, with service to Cancun, Montego Bay, Puerto Plata, Punta Cana and Varadero, with Moncton service operating from the second week of February to the first week of May. 

In March, Sunwing will kick off flights from St John’s to Cayo Coco, Varadero, Cancun, Montego Bay and Punta Cana; all of those weekly flights will run through mid-May. 

— CJ

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