Looks like the newest version of Air Jamaica is intent on wrecking a good airline. They have cancelled our flight from Atlanta to Montego Bay on February 12th. They tell us too bad and to get a ticket on another airline. This is with less than a month to go during a busy travel period. This is the thanks we get for reserving 6 months ago.

Never again Air Jamaica!

What was their reason for cancelling?

Which flight was it? And as asked, what was the reason?

[quote="kathy"]What was their reason for cancelling?[/quote]

They did not give a reason. This flight was ticketed!! They di ot care to help. Just take your money and get another flight. I don't have the flight number in front of me at the moment. Bottom line - They DO NOT care about you and if they have cut 100 flight attendants and are about to cut 300 more employees, it does not make for good company morale. I read they are giving back 3 aircraft and will be cutting many more flights.

It is all in the Jamaica Gleaner if you care to read the stories

Does not look good with all of the layoff at Air Jamaica and cancellng flight!!

When my agent looked online (after I told her about the original post) she said the the flight was still there and seating was wide open. The did cut out one flight in the morning and one in the afternoon though. However, as she said there still were plenty of seats available on the two morning (8 am & 10 AM) for that day (2/12). .

Hard to make a am connection when you are flying from 1500 miles to make a pm connection in Atlanta. (The only time we were able to travel) They cancelled with very little notice and now we are off to Cancun with Air Jamaica and Sandals NOT getting our business.

Hello Moon Palace!!

I just read online that Air Jamaica is pulling all flights out of Houston in April.

from my understanding . .. . butch has given up all ties to air jamaica . .. .
and the government is running it now . .. . HA HA. that is a joke . .. . the jamaican government cant even take care of there guests in the country
do you think they can run a airlines . .. .. . i am a jamaican and i choose to go to any other island . ..much more pleasant . .. .. ..air jamaica cxl both my departure and return from barbados . ..no reason . .. . i found out . .. . no money . .. ."happy trails". .. .. .

This same thing happened to my husband and I when we went to Jamaica in January. I, too, will NEVER fly with Air Jamaica again We had purposely booked our vacation at least 6 months in advance and had booked our flight so that we wouldn't lose our whole first day of vacation traveling. We took the red eye and when we got to Atlanta we were told that our flight was cancelled and they were TRYING to get us onto a Delta flight. Well, they succeeded in doing so, however, instead of arriving at the resort at 1:00 in the afternoon, we didn't get there until 6:30 at night. We ended up having to travel for 23 hours to get to our resort and were PO'd to say the least. I will never fly with this company or Delta again. We had problems with Delta before we even left on our trip. They cancelled our flight twice. NEVER AGAIN!!!! These companies stink and should be avoided at all cost!

With all due respects to those that think Air Jamaica is or ever was a good airline: My wife and I flew Air Jamaica last December from Newark to Curacao. The flight departed late and in spite of promises that our Jamaica to Curacao connection would be held, it left 10 minutes before we arrived. Since there was no later flight to Curacao and no flights the next day either, they returned us to Miami, put us up overnight and flew us to Curacao from there the next day on American. We lost a day of our vacation and the first day's deposit on our room in Curacao.

On our return, they lost our reservations and we went through a rather lengthy "discussion" with their agent and terminal manager in Curacao. Our persistance resulted in the issuance of new tickets and we just made our flights back. Let me add that the Curacao to Jamaica leg left almost an hour late because "the air traffic controllers on Curacao, Aruba and Bonaire had to coordinate all of the flights in the area" (honest, that's what the pilot told us). . I guess pelican and flying fish traffic was extra heavy that day.

On our return I found that the Jamaican government had placed the airline in receivership and taken it over. Three months later, our frequent flyer miles, which were to be credited to our Delta accounts, had still not been awarded. An appeal to Delta rectified that.

All in all, we were not out of pocket that much money, but our vacation got off to a very miserable start and it ended with a bit of stress. If not for our steadfast persistence that Air Jamaica owed us for its screwups and had to make good, it would have cost us significantly more money to finally get to our vacation site. Our take is that we don't need that kind of grief, especially from an airline for which there are alternatives. We therefore will never fly Air Jamaica again under any circumstances.

[quote="Guest55"]Looks like the newest version of Air Jamaica is intent on wrecking a good airline. They have cancelled our flight from Atlanta to Montego Bay on February 12th. They tell us too bad and to get a ticket on another airline. This is with less than a month to go during a busy travel period. This is the thanks we get for reserving 6 months ago.

Never again Air Jamaica! [/quote]

Air Jamaica canceled our flight from LAX to Montego Bay. We originally were leaving on a Tues night on a non-stop flight. But, they changed that to a flight with a stop, so my TA changed us to Monday night and we added a day to our Sandals Whitehouse trip. Now, they canceled the Monday night flight and we can go non-stop on Sat or Sunday. We are leaving in November so who knows what will happen again!