The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has ordered Ameriflight, LLC, , a Burbank, Calif.-based air carrier, and its subsidiary, Ameriflight, PR Inc., to reinstate and provide compensation to a Puerto Rico-based pilot who was discharged for raising safety concerns and for contacting the Federal Aviation Administration about those concerns.
When it comes to air travel, it seems that each passing day witnesses the birth of a new fee for what once upon a time were benefits included in the cost of the ticket.
The two finalists in the running to take over the operations of the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in Carolina for the next 40 years, Mexico’s Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste and Spain’s Grupo Aeropuertos Avance, submitted their final proposals to the government Tuesday and now must wait two or three weeks to know their fate. […]
The Tourism Co. has designated a 16-town cluster straddling Puerto Rico’s central mountain region from Lares to Cidra as the new “Porta Cordillera” tourism region, which joins five other areas where municipalities have banded together to develop travel and leisure-related economic activity.
Empresas Playa Joyuda Inc., owners of the 50-room Perichi’s Hotel, Restaurant & Cocktail Lounge in Cabo Rojo, filed for Chapter 11 protection at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court last Friday, News is my Business learned.
During a ribbon-cutting ceremony held Thursday to officially inaugurate JetBlue Airways' new home at Terminal A in Carolina’s Luis Muñoz Marin International Airport, the airline's President, Dave Barger, and Gov. Luis Fortuño, announced that San Juan has become the sixth focus city in JetBlue's 71-city network.
Nearly 18 months after launching flights between the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in Carolina and the islands of St. Croix, St. Thomas and Vieques, regional carrier Seaborne Airlines announced Wednesday plans to expand its fleet of aircraft, investing more than $7 million in three new planes.
Copa Airlines, a subsidiary of Copa Holdings, S.A., will inaugurate today its third flight between Puerto Rico’s Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport and its hub in Panama, just in time for summer vacation travel.
In keeping with its role of overseeing agencies and tour operators in Puerto Rico, the Tourism Company issued Thursday a “cease and desist” order against Mayagüez company JD Reservation Services for operating as an unlicensed travel agency.
The St. Regis Bahía Beach Resort in Río Grande announced Wednesday that the beachfront property has earned AAA’s Five Diamond Rating, joining five other hotels that have landed the prestigious accolade in the Caribbean since 2011.
The Puerto Rico Tourism Co. unveiled its digital media strategy, including it redesigned www.seepuertorico.com institutional website that is now an "all inclusive" concept seeking to put as much information as possible about the island at the visitor's fingertips.
The Roosevelt Roads Redevelopment Authority announced Monday it has signed its first tenant, a company dedicated to building catamarans.
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.
Last year, California-based Cuba Travel Services launched, with great fanfare, the first direct charter flights between Puerto Rico and Cuba since the 1959 revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power.
JetBlue Airways, Puerto Rico's largest carrier, was granted Monday a “beyond-perimeter” slot exemption from the U.S. Department of Transportation, which will enable it to launch new nonstop "capital-to-capital" service from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport to the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport. The carrier expects to start service in the fall.
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