New York-based JetBlue is marking its 10th year of service in Puerto Rico by investing $3 million to move into its own terminal facility at the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport this summer. And although the carrier is not officially calling its local operation a hub, its 40 daily flights, and counting, have made it Puerto Rico’s dominant carrier.
Eight weeks into the process of finding a private operator to design, build, finance and maintain the proposed “New Juvenile Social Treatment Campus” in Yauco, the Public-Private Partnership Authority announced Wednesday it received 11 proposals from local and international interested consortiums.
Puerto Rico’s unemployment rate stood at 14.8 percent in April, representing the lowest level in 16 months. The number of employed people on the island increased by 22,000, while those on the unemployment lines were the lowest in the last four months.
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