Air Jamaica, “The World’s Best Airline to the Caribbean” was honoured with three top awards at The World Travel Awards held at the Beaches Resort in Providenciales, Turks & Caicos on December 12. The awards are voted on by over 160,000 travel professionals including 110,000 travel agents.

Air Jamaica received three awards: The Caribbean’s Leading Airline, The Caribbean’s Leading Airline Website and The Caribbean’s Leading Business Class Airline. This is the tenth straight year that the airline has been recognized as the Caribbean’s Leading Airline and these awards continue to reinforce that the airline’s motto “The World’s Best Airline to the Caribbean” is more than just words, it is a way of doing business every day. The airline’s senior vice president of sales and marketing, Paul Pennicook was on-hand to accept the awards. “We are thrilled to have received these awards, particularly knowing that the awards are voted on by our peers and those that sell our service. This acknowledgement tells us that we are meeting our goal of providing the best service to our customers and that the industry agrees. It truly is an honour and we thank everyone involved,” says Pennicook.

The airline continues to increase its service from the U.S. to the Caribbean including providing the most non-stop flights to Jamaica and the only non-stop flights from Fort Lauderdale to Barbados. The airline serves 10 gateways in the U.S. plus Toronto, Canada and 10 destinations in the Caribbean with both non-stop and connecting service through its hub in Montego Bay.

Air Jamaica prides itself on providing amenities that many other airlines have discontinued including hot meals, free in-flight entertainment in both classes of service, signature complimentary champagne and its renowned Lovebird hospitality.

The airline has been constantly improving and upgrading its web site (www.airjamaica.com) over the past year and now offers web check in from all of its gateways to ease the check-in process for its passengers. Special packages are always available on the site as well as a wealth of information on flight status, destinations and the airline itself. Visitors to www.airjamaica.com can also access details on exciting events happening in the Caribbean In the coming months, the Web site will see more upgrades making access to information and news on the airline easily accessible to media 24-hours a day.

About Air Jamaica:
Air Jamaica provides more non-stop flights to Jamaica than any other carrier with more than 300 flights per week from Atlanta, Baltimore/Washington, Chicago, Fort Lauderdale, Los Angeles, Miami, Newark, New York (JFK), Orlando, and Philadelphia in the United States; Toronto in Canada; Air Jamaica also offers daily non-stop service between New York (JFK) and Barbados and direct service between JFK to both St. Lucia and Grenada. Air Jamaica also offers intra-regional service with flights between Jamaica and the Bahamas, Barbados, Cuba, Curacao, Grand Cayman, Grenada and St. Lucia. Air Jamaica also offers the only nonstop flights from Fort Lauderdale to Barbados every Thursday, Friday, and Sunday.