Tourist traffic through Montego Bay’s Sangster International Airport, bounced 17 percent in February over January, this year, with Kingston’s Norman Manley airport also recording a rise over January, data released by Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico operators of both ports of entry, reveal.
The Montego Bay airport processed 274,500 incoming and outgoing passengers, down by 31.4 percent from 400,100 in 2025, representing a 17 percent improvement over the 37.7 percent decline for January. For the year to date, traffic dropped 34.7 percent to 559,000 from 856,300 in the prior year.
The decline for Kingston was moderate, with only a 2.1 percent slippage to 119,200 passengers from 121,900 in 2025 and for the year to date, traffic through the Norman Manley airport dipped 5.1 percent year to date, to 274,200 versus 288,900 in 2025.
In December last year, traffic through both airports dropped by 43.8 percent in the case of Montego Bay and Kingston, 2.7 percent, with the latest data showing an accelerated rebound.