I Want My Air Jamaica Back!
The Spirit of Jamaica Back in the days, we had 2, sometimes 3 flights a day to and from Jamaica, live and direct, one could leave NY and be in Jamaica for Brunch or fish and festival on the beach. From Atlanta 2 hours and 20 minutes and you were home sweet home, sitting on your verandah drinking a beer. These days no such luck, traveling from and to Jamaica is like playing global pin-ball with various cities. You just bounce from one airport to the next like a mini bus from Half-Way-Tree to Papine, "Ready-One, Small-Up-Yu-Self". The Spirit and JetBlue flights are now America to Jamaica locals, as you stop and idle in various North American airports before finally landing in Kingston because direct flights are hard to come by. A friend of mine said she left Jamaica at 3:30PM and did not get to Atlanta until 10PM. Another one said she had to go further up North to Chicago before she could head back in Jamaica direction and even then only got home after seve...