R to L: Richard Pile, District Sales Manager, Delta Air Lines, chats with Barbados Tourism Authority’s (BTA) Chairman, Adrian Elcock; BTA’s Interim President and CEO, Petra Roach; and Barbados Hotel & Tourism Association’s (BHTA) President, Sunil Chatrani
after the just concluded press conference launching the recommencement of a Delta Air Lines’ Barbados service.
NEW YORK – Barbados and Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) announce a collaboration on new nonstop service this winter to the Caribbean island. Travelers from the Eastern and Central regions of the U.S. now have a new reason to head to the sun-drenched island, with nonstop flights beginning on December 4, 2014, twice weekly between Grantley Adams International Airport in Bridgetown and both New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, and Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, where connections to cities across the United States are available.
Flights will operate Thursdays and Saturdays, and two flights will start simultaneously, one from New York into Barbados and then onto Atlanta; and then a second one originating in Atlanta, traveling to Barbados and on to New York.
Available for purchase now, round-trip flight times from JFK and ATL to Bridgetown, Barbados are as follows:
JFK-BGI DL 308 8:00 a.m. departure, 1:47 p.m. arrival
BGI-JFK DL 307 4:55 p.m. departure, 8:58 p.m. arrival
ATL-BGI DL 302 9:55 a.m. departure, 3:29 p.m. arrival
BGI-ATL DL 305 2:45 p.m. departure, 6:57 p.m. arrival
