Lufthansa Airlines added Kingston to its South American DC-10 operations on April 2, 1976. This was a weekly Lufthansa service and the flights in each direction, between Germany and South America, took place a week apart.
This cover was carried on the inaugural Lufthansa German Airlines flight from the United Nations Post Office in New York to Kingston, Jamaica (where it was backstamped) and is listed in the Jet Age Flights Section of The American Air Mail Catalogue as J-1844u.