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Caribbean Report December 2010

Credit: Jamaica Tourist Board


Once You Go, You Know
So go. Or at least send your clients to Jamaica. Here’s a complete update of flights to Jamaica (seasonal departures will vary in start date from November to early January; Halifax and Moncton departures begin in February):
• Air Canada Vacations will maintain weekly flights from Calgary, Edmonton, Halifax, Ottawa, Winnipeg and Vancouver along with two flights each week from Montreal, and continue to offer daily service from Toronto to Montego Bay in the winter season, plus three weekly departures to Kingston.
• Air Jamaica offer daily service from Toronto to Kingston.
• For the first time Signature Vacations and Sunwing Airlines offer a non-stop flight from Moncton to Montego Bay; three weekly flights from Toronto; two flights from Montreal; and weekly departures from Calgary, Edmonton, Halifax, Ottawa and Winnipeg.
• Transat Tours Canada has two weekly flights from both Montreal and Halifax and five flights from Toronto. The company also offers once-a-week departures from Calgary, Edmonton, London, Ottawa, Saskatoon and Vancouver/Winnipeg (flight begins in Vancouver).
• Thomas Cook/Sunquest Vacations will be offering seven flights per week from Toronto and two weekly departures from Montreal and Winnipeg, along with weekly departures from Calgary, Edmonton, Halifax, Ottawa, Quebec City, Regina, Saskatoon and Vancouver.
• This month, WestJet Airlines/Vacations adds non-stop service from seven Canadian cities: Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Regina and Montreal. The company will continue to fly daily from Toronto and will add a second Saturday departure in January. WestJet will also continue weekly departures from Ottawa.