Anguilla is one of the region’s buzziest luxury destinations — and if you’re heading there for the winter tourist season, there’s one great way to get there. 

The Caribbean’s leading luxury airline has relaunched its service to the island of Anguilla. 

Tradewind Aviation, which operates scheduled flights to some of the Caribbean’s most exclusive destinations (along with charter service across the region), has relaunched its flights from San Juan, Puerto Rico to Anguilla. 

From now through Jan. 5, the flights will be operating seven days per week. 

From Jan. 6-April 13, 2020, the Anguilla flights will be operating four times each week, with round-trip service on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and Monday. 

Tradewind, known for its luxe Pilatus PC12 service to destinations like St Barth, Nevis and Antigua, is unquestionably the best way to get to Anguilla, meaning travelers can cut out long immigration lines and waits at the ferry terminal and instead arrive in style directly at Anguilla’s Clayton J. Lloyd International Airport. 

Tradewind operates a VIP lounge on the second floor of San Juan’s Luis Munoz Marin International Airport, meaning travelers can arrive in Puerto Rico, check in and simply take the elevator directly to the boarding area and lounge. 

And Tradewind’s broad network of interline agreements, from airlines like United and British Airways, mean you can book your Anguilla itineraries on a single ticket — and check your bags all the way through Anguilla. 

Even better, Tradewind recently signed an interline agreement with American Airlines, too.

Anguilla has long had one of the Caribbean’s most opulent hotel products, from the iconic Cap Juluca to the Four Seasons to what is now a pair of CuisinArt-branded resorts. 

It’s a hotel product that continues to grow, from the new Relais & Chateaux Quintessence Hotel to the recently-expanded Malliouhana, which just added 11 new beachfront suites, four new garden units and a two-bedroom villa to its portfolio on Meads Bay Beach. 

But Anguilla’s maritime arrival experience has often been less than luxurious, with excessive waits and processing times at the ferry terminal — making Tradewind the obvious choice for Anguilla’s luxury travelers. 

The relaunch of Tradewind is another boost for a destination that has seen record-breaking arrival numbers so far in 2019 — totals that actually surpassed the island’s previous all-time-high, set in 2017 before Hurricane Irma. 

And while its hotels are impressive, the ultimate way to experience Anguilla is at one of its ultra-luxe villas, from Nevaeh on Long Bay to the sleek Tequila Sunrise in Dropsey Bay. 

For more, visit Tradewind Aviation. 

— CJ

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A new hotel project in Turks and Caicos is moving forward, Caribbean Journal has learned.

The Bight Hotel, the brainchild of development firm EA Group, has received zoning and outline planning permission and will soon be announcing its hotel operator.

It was first announced at the beginning of this year.

The property, set on the edge of Grace Bay Beach in the Bight Settlement of Providenciales, will be a residential hotel, in keeping with the most popular trend on the island.

“We designed the Bight Hotel to be authentic, experiential, and bohemian with the longstanding primary objective that it be a great investment opportunity,” said Ryan Jones, Developer at EA Group.

The hotel will feature 66 units and a total of 89 keys, along with a restaurant, a bar, a coffee shop, a kids’ club and an event space-cinema.

Turks and Caicos Sotheby’s International Realty has been tapped to market the real estate at the project.

The firm said 10 reservations were already in place at the project, which it said fulfilled a “longstanding gap in the Turks and Caicos real estate market for an affordable, investment-driven ownership opportunity.”

— CJ

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Puerto Rico’s airlift boom will continue in 2020 with the launch of another wave of new routes from low-cost carrier Spirit Airlines. 

Spirit, already one of the leading carriers to Puerto Rico, has announced plans to launch more new daily nonstop flights to San Juan’s Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport. 

That will be highlighted by a new daily nonstop flight from Boston Logan International Airport to San Juan, beginning Feb. 1, 2020. 

“For Aerostar, it is a priority to be able to provide passengers with the greatest amount and frequency of flights. This way, we can expand the island’s possibilities while further developing visitor traffic,” said Jorge Hernández, CEO of Aerostar, which manages Puerto Rico’s biggest airport. “We thank Spirit for choosing Puerto Rico to inaugurate these two new routes. Newark and Boston are destinations with great demand among Puerto Ricans, so we trust that these new routes will be successful.”

Spirit is also adding a second daily nonstop flight from Newark to San Juan, also set to begin Feb. 1, 2020. 

“We are thrilled to expand our Puerto Rico service portfolio with new destinations and more nonstops to beautiful San Juan,” said John Kirby, Vice President of Network Planning at Spirit Airlines. “Our new flights from Boston and Newark give our guests more opportunities to escape to this incredible destination of discovery and leisure.”

The new daily routes are part of a wider expansion to Puerto Rico, Spirit said.

Indeed, earlier this year Spirit launched new flights from Tampa and Baltimore to San Juan.

That will include additional daily flights to San Juan from three cities: Orlando (beginning Feb. 21), Philadelphia (beginning March 1) and Baltimore-Washington (launching May 21). 

Puerto Rico continues to see record-breaking air arrivals in 2019, largely buoyed by consistent growth in new airlift. 

What that also means is that carriers, both legacy and low-cost, continue to bet big on the destination and its tourism potential — as the destination experiences an ongoing tourism surge.

“We appreciate Spirit Airlines’ commitment with the expansions of service in Puerto Rico with new daily flight routes from Newark and Boston,” said Carla Campos, the executive director of the Puerto Rico Tourism Company, in a statement. “Each destination will have 64,970 additional seats annually, which represents an economic impact of approximately $25 million for Newark and $28 million for Boston. We are confident that this increase in air capacity will continue to expand travel alternatives for thousands of passengers through the Luis Muñoz Marín Airport.”

Spirit first launched flights to Puerto Rico back in 2001. 

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Caribbean Airlines has launched its new service between Kingston, Jamaica and Grand Cayman in the Cayman Islands. 

The twice-weekly nonstop flight will operate on Tuesdays and Saturdays until March 28, 2020, according to the company. 

“Caribbean Airlines has a clear vision to connect the region, which is a major element in strengthening our Caribbean identity,” said Caribbean Airlines CEO, Garvin Medera. “Far too often we have heard how difficult, inconvenient and expensive it is to travel within the region.” 

The flights are part of a concerted effort to grow Jamaica’s Norman Manley Airport in Kingston into a regional hub. 

“This new flight will ease this burden by adding Grand Cayman to our network and our flight is timed to facilitate easy connections to other Caribbean Airlines destinations,” Medera said.

“The Cayman Islands Airports Authority is delighted to add Caribbean Airlines to the expanding list of airlines serving the Cayman Islands,” said CEO of the Cayman Islands Airports Authority, Albert Albertson. “The Caribbean Airlines service will add 300 seats to Grand Cayman, to augment arrivals, which continue to grow exponentially. Our airport handles over 2500 aircraft movements annually and we are happy to include Caribbean Airlines in this expansion.”

Grand Cayman is Caribbean Airlines’ 22nd destination, and the airline intends to expand its network in the coming months.

The carrier recently launched several other new routes this year out of Jamaica, including from Kingston to Barbados. 

— CJ

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