News from Bonaire, St. Eustatius & Saba
DADE COUNTRY, FLORIDA - A Red Air flight from Dominican airline was killed in an accident on Tuesday afternoon in Miami while landing at Miami International Airport. Although the landing initially appeared to be normal, according to unconfirmed reports, the landing gear of the aircraft collapsed, causing the aircraft to slide further on its belly and after a partial slide on a grass field, eventually coming to a stop. According to initial ... Lees verder
WILLEMSTAD - The airline Equair will operate a number of charter flights to Curaçao during the summer holidays. The flights to Curaçao are scheduled for July 31 and then on August 4, 9, 12, 16, 20, 24 and 28. The last charter flight is scheduled for ... Lees verder
KRALENDIJK - The new Tourism Entry Tax, which will take effect on 1 July 2022, will be detrimental for day trippers and so-called island hoppers. The negative incentive of the new tax is completely contradictory to the idea from the Tourism Recovery Plan ... Lees verder
PHILIPSBURG- Next week, June 14-16, the 6th annual CARIBAVIA Summit & Retreat will take place at the Simpson Bay Resort in St.Maarten. CARIBAVIA is not a sit-and-listen conference but rather a solutions and results oriented event where audience interaction ... Lees verder
KRALENDIJK- Airline EZ Air is taking another step in the steady expansion of its capacity with the addition of two larger Saab 2000 aircraft to the fleet. Earlier this week, EZ Air signed the agreement with the supplier of the aircraft. In 2021, EZ Air ... Lees verder
TOCUMEN, PANAMA- Copa Airlines, a subsidiary of Copa Holdings, S.A and a member of the Star Alliance global airline network, has announced that starting in June, 2022 it will fly again from the Hub of the Americas®, located at the Tocumen International Airport ... Lees verder
KRALENDIJK- There will be no renewed vote on the introduction of the $75 tourist tax every time a tourist enters the island. Based on newly received legal advice, the Public Entity Bonaire (OLB) is of the opinion that a legally valid decision has indeed ... Lees verder
The Bottom, Saba -The Saba Tourist Bureau is pleased with the news that Windward Islands Airways International Winair will increase its services to Saba per June 1, 2022. This added airlift is most welcome because the island highly depends on ... Lees verder
BOGOTA- In Colombia, many travellers have reacted with disappointment to the news that low-cost carrier Viva Air is being taken over by the holding company that also owns the shares of Avianca, the oldest airline in the world after KLM. In the ten years ... Lees verder
THE BOTTOM- Starting May 1, 2022, Saba will discontinue the pre-travel COVID-19 testing, the Electronic Health Application System (EHAS) forms, and the day 4 post-arrival testing, Island Governor Jonathan Johnson announced on Monday, April 25. Based on the ... Lees verder
SCHIPHOL- A spontaneous strike among ground handlers at Schiphol airport on Saturday led to chaos at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport. Dozens of flights were unable to depart on Saturday morning, as luggage could not be loaded onto the flight. The baggage was ... Lees verder
KRALENDIJK- The Spanish airline WAMOS is again operating flights for TUI. The deployment of WAMOS is necessary due to scheduled maintenance on one of the airline's dreamliners. Passengers are generally not fond of flying WAMOS Air. There would be little ... Lees verder
KRALENDIJK/WILLEMSTAD- Flight School Falki Avation looks back on two successful sessions of its own aviation seminar. On Friday the seminar was held on Curaçao, followed on Saturday by a meeting on Bonaire. The seminar was intended for all people who are ... Lees verder
KRALENDIJK- Bonaire's Flamingo airport is striving to acquire a wheelchair lift, so that passengers who depend on a wheelchair will have a completely different experience, when boarding or deplaning at the airport. That is what the Commercial Director of ... Lees verder
ORANJESTAD- The Public Entity St. Eustatius recently started with the tender phase for the construction of phase one of the Airport Boulevard. This phase consists of the road reconstruction between the Concordia Road and the Theodore A. M Pandt ... Lees verder
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