British Airways will fly five times a week from London Heathrow Airport to Grand Cayman, via Nassau, Bahamas, from March next year.
The airline, which flew weekly repatriation flights into and out of Cayman during the pandemic, currently flies four times a week to the jurisdiction via Nassau, and plans to launch a fifth weekly flight, on Wednesdays, from March next year.
This means flights will depart from London on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays.
Director of Tourism Rosa Harris told members of the Cayman Islands Tourism Association last month that it was anticipated that British Airways flights from the UK, via the Bahamas, are expected to be at 91% of 2019’s levels in the final quarter of this year, and at 97% in the first quarter of 2023.
“The UK has always been strongly performing,” Harris said. “And that’s probably because we had continued service on BA throughout lockdown, so the awareness in the UK was a lot more consistent despite the borders being closed.”
Before the pandemic, British Airways had intended to increase its airlift to Cayman from four times a week to five. In November 2019, it announced that it would be launching the fifth weekly flight in April 2020, but the global COVID-19 outbreak scuppered that plan.
The new additional weekly flight from London is among some new routes or flights that are expected to further bolster Cayman’s stayover tourism figures in the coming months.
They include a highly anticipated new route by Cayman Airways from Grand Cayman to Los Angeles, which launches on Saturday, 5 Nov. The flight will depart at 3:45pm on Saturdays and return the following day.
And from 17 Dec., Sun Country Airlines is scheduled to begin a seasonal route from Minneapolis/St. Paul in Minnesota, which will run weekly, on Saturdays.
Delta Air Lines is also expected to resume its Minneapolis route in winter 2023, Cayman tourism officials have said.
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