Vacation Express Reduces Charter Service to Cancun from BWI

I have used Vacation Express many times in the past and it's unfortunate that what Mother Nature and the hurricane's have done to Cancun and Cozumel.  These destinations have always proven to be an affordable family summer getaway vacation.  I totally appreciate though, their reasoning for cutting back.  It's still unfortunate because it is a great service and deal for those in the Metropolitan, Washington, DC area.

Vacation Express announces that it will not resume its seasonal flights from Baltimore to Cancun scheduled to start up May 25, 2006.

"Despite the very successful rebuilding efforts of Cancun and the recent completion of the beach project, this market has been slow to embrace this destination in the past few months. "says Rene Jongmans, President of Vacation Express. "We had expected customers to be comfortable booking their Cancun summer vacation at this point, but forward bookings for this destination have been disappointing and has made it difficult for us to justify offering three flights weekly for this upcoming season."

Clients currently scheduled on a Vacation Express charter for the summer, will be re-accommodated or offered a full refund.

Even with this recent news, Vacation Express has announced the launch of an exciting new program adding 12 new destinations to its scheduled air program and a new scheduled air booking engine that will be launched prior to May 1.

"We have seen the major air carriers add leisure destinations in the Caribbean and Mexico for at least a year now", says Cliff Phillips, Director of Sales. " It made a lot of sense to us to focus on this opportunity by adding several very popular destinations to our product line. These new scheduled air destinations combined with our current destinations will allow agents to offer their clients complete vacation packages at the lowest prices to 22 destinations. That's the most destinations Vacation Express has ever offered."

Scheduled air packages will now be available to Aruba, Antiqua, Barbados, Grand Caymen, Jamaica, Nassau, St. Martin/St. Maarten, St. Lucia, Turks & Caicos, Mexico destinations of Acapulco, Ixtapa, Los Cabos, Puerto Vallarta and the US Virgin Islands of St. Thomas, St. Croix and St. John.

These new destinations are in addition to Vacation Express' existing destinations Cancun, Riviera Maya, Cozumel, Punta Cana, Puerto Plata and Costa Rica. Most importantly, agents will be able to book these new destinations by April 30 on the new scheduled air booking engine. This new booking engine gives agents access to all fares from all carriers, guaranteeing the best fares at all times.

"Adding these opportunities will satisfy the demand of all agents", says Rene Jongmans. "Whether clients want to depart from Baltimore or Washington Dulles, we will now be able to service all their needs and we are looking forward to a successful launch of these destinations in the next few weeks."

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