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Jamaica: Air Mail

Rates to the UK
All Air Services

First Jamaica Acceptance (1 Jun 1939) for Transatlantic Service to UK at 2s Rate

Pan Am started its Southern
Transatlantic airmail service on
20 May 1939 with first mails leaving
from Jamaica on 1 Jun.
The route was from Kingston via New
York, the Azores, Lisbon, Marseilles.

The 2s rate applied from 1 Jun 1939 to 15 Oct 1939.

Jamaica (22 Sep 1944) to New York to UK at 2s2d Rate
Soon after the war began services were disrupted and the rate was increased.

Rated 2s5d = 3d Registration plus 2s2d. This airmail rate applied 16 Oct 1939 to 15 Jun 1947.