Princess Juliana International Airport, St. Maarten

U.S. LCC Sun Country Airlines will launch service between its Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport base and St Maarten’s in January 2024.

Routes hears from Routes World 2022 attendee Princess Juliana International Airport in St. Maarten.

CEO Victor Pacheco believes there is huge potential for a low-cost hub-and-spoke operator in the Caribbean—especially if governments reduce taxes and fees levied on the industry.

The Caribbean carrier plans to serve 12 countries in the Americas, including Mexico, Colombia and Peru.

Domestic flights dominated the list of busiest routes in the world during 2021, led by a leisure service in South Korea.

The airline says easing COVID-19 travel restrictions are enabling the route restarts.

Blue Air’s expansion from Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca and Iasi, Flybondi restarting international service, and Frontier Airlines launching flights from New York Stewart are among the latest route announcements and services resuming.

Miami-Nassau is one of eight more new routes Frontier Airlines plans to start this summer.

Two dozen new routes are joining JetBlue’s network in regions where the New York-based airline expects increasing demand for leisure travel.

KLM plans to further expand its European and intercontinental flying in the coming months, restoring connectivity to 78% of the destinations it originally intended to serve this summer.

The airport is hoping to connect to destinations such as Aruba, Colombia, Amsterdam and major hubs in the UK, as well as increasing frequencies to Canada and across the United States following successful discussions earlier this monthat Routes Americas in Denver.