British Airways Starts New Route to Montego Bay and Returns to Antigua, Barbados, Kingston and ST Lucia

British Airways is to start out a new route amongst Gatwick and Montego Bay in Jamaica from October thirteen, 2020. 

Demonstrating its dedication to the Caribbean, the airline has also now resumed traveling to Antigua (from August one), Barbados (from July 18), Kingston (also Jamaica, from July 20) and St Lucia (from July twenty five), albeit with diminished frequencies.

Flights to Montego Bay, which will be operated by a three-cabin (Planet Traveller, Planet Traveller Moreover and Club Planet) Boeing 777, will depart on Tuesdays and Saturdays and are now on sale on ba.com, with charges beginning from as minimal as £427 return.

As a place, Montego Bay is a vacationer hotspot, famed for its wonderful beaches, h2o sporting activities, resorts and nightlife.  

Diane Corrie, British Airways’ commercial manager for the Caribbean, said: “We’re fired up to be extending our community as soon as all over again amongst London Gatwick and the Caribbean with the start out of this new flight to Montego Bay in October, as nicely as resuming our products and services to Antigua, Barbados, Kingston and St Lucia.

“We know persons are keen to vacation and the sunshine and beaches across the Caribbean merged with wonderful resorts and amusement tends to make it a profitable place. And with flights to our new Montego Bay route beginning from underneath £500 return, what’s not to appreciate?!”

Consumers whose flights have been impacted above recent months, and who claimed a voucher can use it towards the flights. Alternatively, Avios can also be utilised towards Reward flights, updates, resorts and motor vehicle rental. When making use of Avios section payment, clients can decide on from a array of cost savings by place and cabin and they continue to gather Avios and Tier Details on their bookings. Consumers should really verify ba.com for comprehensive facts. 

Colin Pegler, Chairman of the Caribbean Tourism Organisation Chapter British isles & Europe, said: “The CTO Chapter British isles & Europe is enormously encouraged by BA’s return to the Caribbean. As one particular of the Caribbean’s most very important and longstanding flight associates we are delighted to see this kind of endorsement from our countrywide carrier.  It is essential to the region, our tour operator, hotel and place associates that the resumption of airlift is speedy and comprehensive as we search forward to welcoming visitors as soon as more.”

Safety is at the coronary heart of British Airways’ business and the airline has launched a array of actions to hold its clients risk-free and is inquiring clients to abide by the new actions to support take care of the wellness of anyone travelling.

These involve:

• examining-in on the internet, downloading their boarding pass and where by attainable self-scanning their boarding passes at the departure gate
• observing social distancing and making use of hand sanitisers that are put all over airports
• sporting a facemask at all periods and bringing sufficient to switch them every four several hours for lengthier flights 
• inquiring clients not to vacation if they assume they have any signs or symptoms of Covid-19
• cabin crew sporting PPE and a new meals services, which lowers the quantity of interactions essential with clients
• Inquiring clients to guarantee they have almost everything they need to have from their hand baggage just before departure, and where by attainable, storing their have-on bag underneath the seat in front of them

The airline is cleaning all vital surfaces such as seats, screens, seat buckles and tray tables immediately after every flight and each individual aircraft is completely cleaned from nose to tail every day. The air on all British Airways flights is absolutely recycled as soon as every two to three minutes as a result of HEPA filters, which take away microscopic bacteria and virus clusters with above 99.9% effectiveness, equivalent to hospital operating theatre standards.

On British Airways’ new flights to Montego Bay, Donovan White, Jamaica Vacationer Board’s Director of Tourism, said: “We’re delighted that British Airways has declared a 2 times weekly services to Montego Bay from London Gatwick from October thirteen, 2020, incorporating to its typical London Gatwick – Kingston services and further bolstering the quantity of flights from the British isles to Jamaica. During these unprecedented periods, Jamaica has implemented strong wellness protocols to guarantee the wellbeing of all people and visitors. As an extremely well-known Caribbean place, with above 225,000 Brits viewing each individual 12 months, we search forward to welcoming even more British visitors. Now more than at any time, we are thrilled to have British Airways’ ongoing assistance to push visitation from the British isles market place.”

Notes to editors:

• Flight BA2265 will depart London Gatwick on Tuesdays and Saturdays at 12.20pm arriving at 5.30pm and the BA2264 will return from Montego Bay to London Gatwick on Tuesdays and Saturdays at 7.30pm arriving at 9.25am the adhering to day.  
• Terms and circumstances use – see ba.com for facts
• Guide in fare of £427 is a hand baggage only fare
• The Montego Bay services will function above the wintertime time period till Easter 2021
• All new routes remain subject to government acceptance