Delta adds flight to between Miami and Nassau as Caribbean travel traffic grows
Delta Air Lines has added a new route from Miami International Airport to Nassau in a move to tap into growing travel to the Caribbean and the broader increase in global tourism as pandemic fears fade.
It is the first time the Atlanta-based carrier will have direct flights from MIA into the Bahamas capital city, said a spokesman for the carrier on Friday.
The direct flight, which will operate daily with a Boeing 737-800, will debut on November 5. It is year-round and will continue following the end of the winter season. Tickets go on sale starting August 18.
Travel between Miami and the Caribbean is robust. In the six-month period between October 2022 and April 2023, the Bahamas was Miami’s second-largest international source of tourists in the Caribbean and tenth-largest worldwide, according to data from the Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau. It ranked ahead of European giants France and Germany.
The addition comes as Miami International Airport, known as MIA, is booming. It is also seeing an increase in flights to Latin America and the Caribbean from multiple carriers.
Earlier this year, LATAM said it is adding flights from MIA to Latin America including one daily from MIA to Medellin, Colombia. LATAM has a joint venture with Delta.
Delta — one the three biggest U.S. airlines — has also increased the number of flights departing from Miami to elsewhere in the United States, since last year’s regulatory approval of the LATAM partnership. There’s new service to Orlando, Boston, Ronald Reagan Washington National in D.C., Los Angeles, and Salt Lake City.
Meanwhile, American Airlines earlier this year temporarily increased service from Miami to Latin America and the Caribbean during the winter months, with flights to: Baranquila, Colombia; Cartagena, Colombia; Tortola, British Virgin Islands; Cancun, Mexico; and Bridgetown, Barbados.
In July, low-cost Norwegian airline Norse Atlantic Airways said it was adding flights from Miami to Paris starting Dec. 12, and from Miami to Berlin beginning Dec. 14, as part of its expanding winter flight schedule.
The route Delta revealed on Friday also comes weeks after it announced a series of new flights between the United States to the Caribbean.
Earlier this month, Delta also added Saturday flights for the winter season from Atlanta, New York-JFK, Detroit, Minneapolis, and Boston to the Caribbean. They will operate starting January 13.
