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Flight Watcher: Newark to San Juan for $153 Roundtrip

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Flight Watcher found a strong winter fare on United: you can fly nonstop from Newark to San Juan for about $153 for travel during the week of Feb. 2. The flight takes just under four hours, making it one of the easiest tropical escapes from the Northeast, with no connections required. Fares to San Juan don’t […]

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Air France Is Ramping Up Its Caribbean Service 

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Air France will be operating more flights to the Caribbean this summer than it did before the onset of the pandemic, Caribbean Journal has learned.  The French carrier said this week it would be operating “above pre-crisis levels” to destinations including North America, Africa and the Caribbean this summer.  Air France said the increase was […]

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Iberia Is Adding More Flights to the Dominican Republic 

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Spanish carrier Iberia Airline is adding more flights to the Dominican Republic, Caribbean Journal has learned.  The airline will be operating up to nine weekly flights from Madrid to the Dominican Republic this summer.  That’s part of what will represent a return to 85 percent of its pre-pandemic capacity, according to the Dominican Republic Ministry […]

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American Airlines Set to Kick Off Daily Service to Anguilla

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American Airlines is set to launch daily nonstop service from Miami to Anguilla on April 5, Caribbean Journal has learned.  The service is an expansion of existing three-flights-per-week service that has been operating since January.  The route first launched back in December 2021, the first-ever nonstop flights between the United States and Anguilla.  “At American […]


Iberia Is Adding More Flights to the Dominican Republic 

Canadian carrier Air Transat is ramping up its flight service to the Dominican Republic this year.  The company will be relaunching flights to three destinations in the country this summer: Puerto Plata, Punta Cana and Samana.  The carrier will also be flying to Puerto Plata year round, with service from both Montreal and Toronto, according […]

A Sandals in the Dominican Republic?

Sandals Resorts International has a broad footprint across the wider Caribbean, from The Bahamas to the north to its soon-to-debut resort in Curacao.  But up to this point, the company has never opened a resort in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean.  That could be changing, however.  A delegation led by SRI Executive Chairman Adam Stewart and CEO […]

New Caribbean Airline Launches in the Dominican Republic 

A new Caribbean airline has launched in the Dominican Republic, with plans for its first flights this spring.  It’s called Arajet, and it’s being billed as the “first ultra-low-cost airline in the Caribbean region.” The company is a full-fledged relaunch of the former Dominican Wings low-cost carrier. It will be based at Las Americas Airport […]

American Airlines Just Launched a New Dominican Republic Route

American Airlines has launched a new route to the Caribbean’s most popular tourism destination, the Dominican Republic.  This weekend, the world’s largest airline kicked off its first-ever route from Miami and Samaná.  Samaná, set on a peninsula in the northeast of the country, has been one of the fastest-growing tourism hotspots in the wider country […]

Dominican Republic Keeps Eclipsing Pre-Pandemic Tourism Levels 

The Dominican Republic is back — and then some.  The Caribbean’s most popular tourism destination had another record-breaking month in February, a sign of the country’s full-fledged travel rebirth.  In February, the Dominican Republic reported more than 566,000 passengers, representing the second-best month for tourism in its entire history.  That represented 268 percent growth over February […]

St Regis’ $25 Million Caribbean Penthouse to Hit the Market

By Joe Pike, Special Contributor to CJI A roughly $25 million Astor Penthouse at The Residences at St. Regis Cap Cana is slated to go on the market in early March, said Aaron Navarro, vice president of sales for The Residences at St. Regis Cap Cana. “With wraparound views of Golfweek’s no. 1 rated golf […]

Dominican Republic Tourism Keeps Surging

The Dominican Republic has yet again topped its pre-pandemic tourism arrival numbers — and the month isn’t even over yet.  The country has already exceeded 390,000 tourists in February, a 210 percent jump over the same month in 2021 and 1 percent more than the same month in 2019.  “The recovery of tourism is a […]

CJI Conversation: Best Western CEO Larry Cuculic on the Caribbean Market

By Guy Britton Larry Cuculic took over as the newest chief executive officer of Best Western Hotels and Resorts towards the end of 2021, overseeing a company that is in the midst of a broad expansion push in the Caribbean in particular. Caribbean Journal Invest caught up with Cuculic to learn more about Best Western’s […]