Routes heading to Dominica and Anguilla

American Airlines plans to launch two new Caribbean routes from Miami International Airport in December.

The Caribbean destinations getting these new flights are Dominica and Anguilla. The direct flights will operate twice a week, on Wednesdays and Sundays, starting on December 8 to Douglas-Charles Airport in Dominica and beginning on December 11 to Clayton J. Lloyd International Airport in Anguilla.

The new routes come as more carriers are moving into the Miami International Airport (MIA). On Thursday, Emirates launched the first-ever direct service between Miami and Dubai.

In the last year, Southwest Airlines, JetBlue and Spirit Airlines have announced their debuts at MIA. American Airlines remains the airport’s largest passenger carrier.

In a statement to the media American Airline’s Vice President of MIA hub operations, Juan Carlos Liscano explains that, “we have been strategically growing our route network to give customers more choices to new destinations, better meeting the demand for travel to Miami, the Caribbean and Latin America”.

Last month, the company announced new routes from Miami to San Andres Island, Colombia, and Chetumal, Mexico, also starting in December. A new route to Paramaribo, Suriname, was supposed to start in July, but has been delayed to September.

International travel to and from MIA still lags during the COVID-19 pandemic. In May, 1,090,347 international travelers made their way through the airport, down 40 per cent from May 2019, according to the most recent data available from the Miami-Dade County aviation division.