AFTER UNDERTAKING a major restructuring of its operations, the
national airline, Air Jamaica, has achieved its best reliability
performance in years, the airline said on Tuesday.
For the past two months, the company said it achieved a schedule completion reliability rate of 99.3 per cent. In addition, the carrier's on-time
performance also showed marked improvement. Currently, the carrier is running at an 86 per cent on-time rate. The company said these very positive performance trends easily place Air Jamaica among the best in the industry.
Air Jamaica provides more non-stop flights to Jamaica than any other carrier. The airline offers scheduled service with more than 270 flights per week from Atlanta, Baltimore/ Washington, Chicago, Fort Lauderdale, Los Angeles, Miami, Newark, New York (JFK), Orlando, and Philadelphia in the U.S., Toronto, Canada and from London to Montego Bay and Kingston.
The airline also offers intra-regional service with flights between
Jamaica and Bahamas, Barbados, Bonaire, Curaçao, Cuba, Grand Cayman and Grenada.