Delta Air Lines Is Adding a New Nonstop Flight to Puerto Rico This Winter 

The salsa. The rum. The mofongo. If you’ve been following Caribbean travel in the last half-decade, you know just how popular Puerto Rico has been, with surging arrivals that really haven’t shown any signs of slowing down. 

The secret? Lots of flights, and lots of cheap flights. The island has been adding new routes from across the mainland United States, and with lower fares than most of its Caribbean competitors, it’s been a formula that’s worked out rather well. 

Now Puerto Rico is getting another new route: weekly service between Raleigh-Durham and San Juan, with a Dec. 20 start date. 

The new route will be operating once every week on Saturdays for the peak season this winter, with the last flight on April 12, 2026, Caribbean Journal confirmed. 

Raleigh-Durham has quietly been adding several new routes to the Caribbean, including flights on Bahamasair to Grand Bahama and low-cost-carrier Avelo to Punta Cana. 

The new Raleigh-Puerto Rico flights are already on sale. If you book on the first flight, you’re looking at roundtrip fares in the main cabin of around $867. If you shift to a bit quieter but still peak-season route in mid-January, prices go down considerably: $302 roundtrip in economy, according to Delta Air Lines’ website. 

So what about the most important question: where do you stay in San Juan? For us, a favorite remains one of the O:live portfolio of boutique hotels, two of which are in the hip Condado area and the third in the neighborhood of Carolina. The O:LV hotel (we love the rooftop hot tub) has rate of just $355 per night according to Google Hotels. 

For the Aire de O:live in Carolina (a transformation of the former Water Club hotel), you can find fares as low as $295 right now.