Air Jamaica, formerly known as "Soon-Come Airlines" has earned its current reputation as being a solid product, and certainly competitive with the ancient 737s, 727s and a300s that Usair and AA fly to MBJ.

AS noted above, it is often only a 30-50% premium to pay first rather then coach. But the service is not all that much better, although the seats are wider, and, as noted avoiding the check-in and boarding lines at MBJ can be worth the price of admission.

This should NOT affect your current decision, but just to complain, before the current ownership the Jamaican government owned and ran AJ, and it was notorious for loooooong delays and many, many canceled flights. On one trip about seven years ago, we had a 12 hour delay at BWI going down and a cancelation that ended up being a Tower Air charter plane on the way back about 10 hours after scheduled departure.

But with the newly leased a320s and new ownership, AJ has really, really come around.

Irie and enjoy!!!!