Southwest Is Reviving a Nonstop That Drops Nashville Straight Into Jamaica's Biggest Resort Gateway
A seasonal Saturday route back to Montego Bay returns in March, arriving just as western Jamaica's resorts come back online.
Southwest Airlines is bringing back its seasonal nonstop from Nashville to Montego Bay, Jamaica, resuming Saturday service on March 13, 2027. The route links Nashville International with Sangster International — 1,326 miles, about three hours and 15 minutes — and puts western Jamaica's busiest resort gateway within a single flight of Middle Tennessee.
The airline first tested the market with a short seasonal run last spring and is now putting it back on the schedule. The once-weekly Saturday cadence fits the seven-night vacations that define Montego Bay, Rose Hall and Negril, and it lets travelers skip a connection through Atlanta, Charlotte or Fort Lauderdale. It's part of a wider Nashville push, with Southwest also adding Saturday flights to Aruba and St. Thomas on the same March 13 date.
The timing matters. The nonstop returns after a wave of resort reopenings across western Jamaica. Sandals Montego Bay is set to reopen Dec. 18, and the former Sandals Royal Caribbean returns the same day rebranded as Sandals Caribbean Cay — both part of a $200 million Sandals investment across three Jamaica resorts. Royalton Blue Waters Montego Bay and its adults-only Hideaway are slated to reopen Sept. 15.
A brand-new adults-only all-inclusive, UNICO 18°77° Montego Bay, is also due to open March 1 with 451 rooms — less than two weeks before the first Nashville flight of the spring schedule. By the time Southwest's service returns, much of the region's room inventory, thinned after Hurricane Melissa, will be back.
The route works best when the hotel is planned around the airline: a Saturday-to-Saturday week leaves plenty of time to settle into Montego Bay or make the drive west to Negril and Seven Mile Beach.
