Silver Airways is launching twice-weekly non-stop service between Jacksonville and Nassau on May 28.

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JetBlue will initially place its ‘B6’ flight code on 14 Silver Airways routes within Florida. Later this year, the partnership will expand to include 13 Silver Airways routes from Florida to The Bahamas, subject to the carriers receiving the required government regulatory approvals.

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This spring Air Canada’s leisure-carrier subsidiary, Air Canada rouge, is taking over eight routes previously operated by Air Canada from Toronto and Montreal to Cuba, the Dominican Republic, The Bahamas, Barbados, Haiti, Cancun and Tampa.

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On July 1, Southwest Airlines will begin operating daily, non-stop flights linking Atlanta with Aruba and Montego Bay; Baltimore/Washington International Airport with Aruba, Nassau, and (twice daily) Montego Bay; and Orlando with Aruba (on Saturdays only) and Montego Bay.

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Silver Airways is launching new non-stop service from West Palm Beach to North Eleuthera and Freeport in The Bahamas on November 21. On the same day Silver Airways will begin operating twice-daily round-trips each weekday between Orlando and Tallahassee, and between West Palm Beach and Orlando.

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In addition to the 14 routes which Air Canada’s new leisure-airline brand will serve from July 1, Air Canada rouge will add seasonal flights operating from October through March to another 13 sunspot destinations in the Caribbean, Mexico, Florida and Southwestern U.S. for “snowbird” winter-season leisure travelers.

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Lynden Pindling International Airport, the airport serving Nassau and the islands of New Providence and Paradise Island, opened its new International Arrivals Terminal on October 16. The new terminal represents the second stage of a planned three-stage, $409 million redevelopment.

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Tropic Ocean Airways, which began regular service on four days each week to the North Bimini Seaplane Base from Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport in March, added the Miami Seaplane Base as a stop on its regular route.

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Bahamasair is launching non-stop service on May 1 between Grand Bahama Island and Richmond in Virginia, Louisville in Kentucky, Raleigh-Durham in North Carolina and Baltimore/Washington International Airport in Maryland.

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Tropic Ocean Airways has begun offering twice-weekly scheduled seaplane service to the island of Bimini in the Bahamas from Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport.

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Fort Lauderdale-based Gulfstream International Airlines will deploy all six Saab 340Bplus turboprops on its intra-Florida and Florida-Bahamas routes, replacing smaller, 19-seat Beech 1900D aircraft.

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Lighthouses still stand watch throughout the islands of The Bahamas and The Bahamas Lighthouse Preservation Society safeguards three of the world’s few remaining kerosene-burning, hand-wound lighthouses.

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The airline’s flights to Grand Bahama Island will originate from Fort Lauderdale, Louisville, Kentucky; Richmond, Virginia; Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina; and Baltimore/Washington International Airport. Vision Airlines will begin the new services during the week of November 14.

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Momentum is gathering for the transformation of the shabby downtown area of Nassau, the biggest city in The Bahamas, into a vibrant residential and retail center integrated with the city’s Cruise Port and a major attraction for the huge Atlantis resort on nearby Paradise Island.

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On a three-hour luncheon cruise from Nassau, I was expecting a tour-boat. But imagine my surprise when I walked out on to the marina dock behind the Poop Deck Yacht Haven restaurant just east of downtown Nassau and found I’d be sailing on the M/Y Equinox, an 81-foot motor yacht.

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Even more remarkable than the resort’s planned 1,000-acre size and its cost is the huge ambition of Baha Mar’s developers – the Izmirlian family and Bank of Nova Scotia – in trying to building the resort in one single, enormous push.

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Nassau’s Lynden Pindling International Airport has completed the first major step in a $409.5 million redevelopment which will see its capacity almost double by late 2013 to 5.2 million passengers. LPIA’s redevelopment is the largest public-sector project in the nation’s 38-year history.

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I’m at the Sheraton Nassau Beach Resort – also called the Sheraton Cable Beach – on the island of New Providence in the Bahamas.

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Billed as the largest single-phase resort development in the history of the Caribbean, the 1,000-acre, $3.4 billion resort, gaming and entertainment complex is slated to open in late 2014 and will include some of the world’s best-known hotel brands.

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