JetBlue Adding Curaçao Flights as Demand Booms

JetBlue will add two flights from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport to Curaçao International Airport beginning February 2024, said Curaçao Tourist Board officials.

The new winter-schedule flights will increase JetBlue’s non-stop frequency to Curaçao from five flights per week to daily departures.

In a statement, Curaçao Tourist Board attributed the added New York departures to “a steadily growing demand from the U.S. market. The new service follows JetBlue’s April expansion, which increased the non-stop flights departing JFK airport for Curaçao from three times a week to five times a week. 

“This is a very important achievement in order to continue to enhance our tourism industry in 2024 and consequently give an impulse to our economy”, said Ruisandro Cijntje, minister of tourism and economic development. Curaçao officials have reported booming tourist arrivals for the destination in 2023.

Curaçao hosted 49,258 overnight, land-based travelers in August, a 16 percent year-over-year increase its second-best visitation month in 2023. The country welcomed 50,937 visitors in July.

Through August, Curaçao has hosted 373,068 overnight travelers, a 17 percent year-over-year increase compared with 2022, when the Caribbean nation hosted 318,432 visitors hosted during the same period. 

The U.S. has hosted 94,275 overnight arrivals during the first eight months of 2023, surpassing the island's total for 2022, officials said. Curaçao’s best year for U.S. visitation came last year when the country welcomed 93,428 overnight visitors.

Through August, visitors from the United States and Brazil, Curaçao’s two leading source markets, have both surpassed their overnight arrivals for all of 2022, said Curaçao Tourist Board officials. 

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