By the Caribbean Journal staff

Carnival Cruise Line is planning to launch its first-ever cruises from New York to Cuba in 2020.

The Carnival Radiance cruise ship will undertake the first voyages from New York as part of a wider berth that includes four-to-nine daily sailings to the Caribbean and a winter season out of Port Canaveral.

The New York-Cuba cruises will feature week-long itineraries that include a full day and an overnight stay in Havana, along with two stops in The Bahamas.

The new itineraries will come after a $200 million dry dock in Spain at the beginning of 2020.

Carnival will also be launching Cuba cruises from New York on the Carnival Sunrise ship, beginning in May 2020, the company said.

— CJ

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By the Caribbean Journal staff

JetBlue saw a traffic surge at the beginning of the fourth quarter, according to newly-released data from the New York City-based carrier.

JetBlue reported just under 4.06 billion revenue passenger miles in October, which represented a sizable 9.5 percent increase compared to the same month in 2017.

That was accompanied by a 0.5-percentage-point increase in load factor to 82.9 percent and an 8.9 percent increase in available seat miles to 4.89 billion.

That all added up a strong start to the final quarter of 2018 for the carrier.

For the year, Jetblue traffic is up 7.4 percent to 42.329 billion revenue passenger miles.

— CJ

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By Caribbean News Now contributor MIAMI, USA — A vigorous tropical wave located about 200 miles east of the Leeward Islands is producing a large area of disturbed weather over much of the western tropical Atlantic Ocean. The disturbance is forecast to move westward to west-northwestward for the next few days, passing near or north […]

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