Getting around MBJ
Sangster International calls itself, in its own statistics, the largest of Jamaica’s three international airports — and 72% of the island’s annual visitors are said to fly in through here. Everything sits in one building, split past security into a Western Concourse and an Eastern Concourse reached from a single check-in hall. There is no on-site airport hotel: guests of Sandals, Half Moon, Couples and the Hyatt Zilara/Ziva are instead met at their own resort’s private arrival lounge in the Ground Transportation Hall, while everyone else can book into Club Mobay — the airport’s own culturally themed VIP lounge network, voted the Caribbean’s Leading Airport Lounge 13 years running. Only two taxi firms are authorised at the kerb, JUTA and JCAL, sharing one desk outside Customs. 2025 tells its own story in the numbers: MBJ set a passenger record of roughly 5.27 million in 2024, then Hurricane Melissa cut November 2025 to barely a third of a normal month, before the year closed at 4,495,370 total passengers — part of the J$30 million the airport’s charity foundation later handed to students was earmarked for rebuilding the schools the storm damaged.
