LATAM to soon expand mobility between Jamaica and South America

Jamaica: The largest airline of Latin America (LATAM) is soon to resume the operations between Lima, Peru and Montego Bay and Jamaica. The nonstop flights will be restarted this year in the month of December.

Edmund Bartlett, the Jamaican Tourism Minister and the country’s tourism ministry and tourist board officials announced the same this Sunday. The Tourism Minister further highlighted the new LATAM Airlines route which reaffirms the commitment to improve the connectivity and tourism growth in the region.

Such an initiative marks great significance for Jamaica as such an expansion would mark their presence in the Latin American Market. This will generate an increase in the tourist arrivals, projecting towards the tourism boom in the country.

Considerably, revenue generation through this would surely make Jamaica’s economy strong and strengthened. The complete and proper flight operations three times a week  that will utilize Airbus A319 and A320 aircraft. This will have the capacity for 144 and 174 seats.

These flights will connect Montego Bay’s Sangster International Airport to Jorge Chavez International Airport in Lima, Peru, and will be scheduled to facilitate easy connections with Peru’s national network. 

This will facilitate connections as well with South America including Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay. Significantly, several of the engagements were held last year in connection to this which were led by tourism minister, senior advisor and strategist Delano Seiveright, Jamaica’s tourism board’s head, Donovan White. 

As well, hundreds of Latin American travel trade partners in Argentina, Chile and Peru revealed their participation in this. The times back, an airline operated the services with Jamaica for several weeks in the month of December in 2019.

The flights were in operation for two months in 2020, that is January and February. However, were cut short due to the pandemic COVID-19 as the situations were so worsened.