It’s Getting Easier to Fly to the Cayman Islands

By: - April 25th, 2022
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Grand Cayman.

More flights are returning to the Cayman Islands. 

American Airlines just launched daily flights between Charlotte and Grand Cayman, with plans to relaunch its Saturday service from Dallas in June. 

That complements existing services from Miami to Grand Cayman, which now operates daily (and three times a day on Saturdays). 

JetBlue has already relaunched its service from New York’s John F Kennedy Airport, with three flights each week in May and an expansion to four flights each week in June. 

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Cayman Brac.

Southwest is operating daily flights from Fort Lauderdale, with plans to resume Saturday service from Baltimore-Washington in June. 

Cayman’s popular national flag carrier, Cayman Airways, operates thice-weekly service from New York, up to three times daily service from Miami and weekly Saturday service between Miami and the sister island of Cayman Brac. (That’s along with five weekly flights from Tampa to Grand Cayman). 

United Airlines, just started daily service from Houston to Grand Cayman, joined by weekly summer service from Newark and summer Saturday service out of Chicago. 

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The Kimpton Seafire and Residences at Seafire in Grand Cayman.

Cayman began its phased tourism reopening in the fall of last year. 

The destination is now open to fully vaccinated travelers, headlined by the requirement of a negative certified antigen or PCR test taken within one day before departure to Cayman; all travelers five and older must take the test. 

You can find more on how to visit the Cayman Islands here

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