For a few hours on Monday, the Luis Muñoz Marín Airport will go back in time to an era when flying meant that passengers would dress up for their journey and flight attendants would pass out playing cards and pillows for the trip.
In about a year, the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in Carolina should be in the hands of a private operator, as per an updated timeline of the process that David Álvarez, executive director of the Puerto Rico Public-Private Partnerships Authority, presented to island investors last week.
Executive Airlines, which serves the Caribbean out of San Juan as American Eagle, is facing a $550,000 fine from the Federal Aviation Administration for failing to complete appropriate inspections on several aircraft.
A $40 million mixed-use project is in the works for the Laguna Shopping Center area in Carolina that calls for developing a trio of multi-story towers to be split between hotels and commercial spaces.
British Airways made its return to Puerto Rico after an 11-year absence with an inaugural flight that carried 280 passengers into Luis Muñoz Marín Airport in Carolina on Monday and once again joined the two islands.
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol has approved the start of direct flights between Puerto Rico's Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport and Cuba, local Ports Authority officials said Tuesday.
Copa Airlines is starting the year by expanding its seating capacity on its two daily flights between San Juan and its hub in Panama , from where it offers dozens of connections to Central and Latin America, Héctor Busquets, general manager for the local operation, said Thursday.
St. Croix-based Seaborne Airlines on Thursday marked the start of its new daily schedule of flights between the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in Carolina and the islands of St. Croix, St. Thomas and Vieques, in pursuit of business and leisure travelers in the region.
Dallas-Fort Worth-based American Airlines, Puerto Rico's dominant air carrier, will be cutting five more routes from its schedule out of the Luis Muñoz Marín Airport, including several offered by its regional operator, American Eagle.
Nearly two dozen flights in and out of the Luis Muñoz Marín Airport in Carolina were grounded Monday, leaving about 2,000 passengers stranded as a major blizzard dumped significant amounts of snow throughout several states along the Mid-Atlantic and U.S. eastern seaboard.
The modern facilities of the Luis Muñoz Marín Airport's Terminal A will be put to use starting in March, when it will open after several delays since construction began in 2006.
St. Croix-based Seaborne Airlines will begin new daily flights between the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport and the islands of St. Croix, St. Thomas and Vieques starting Jan. 12, the company announced Wednesday.
The Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport is set to become the first facility of its kind to have a full-service primary care clinic on its premises, with the planned development of Primary Care Center of the USA.
The Aeroparque, the recreational facility that provides a front-seat to airplane traffic at the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport, will be remodeled through an investment of between $3 million and $5 million, its operators said.
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