Curaçao International Airport

Hato International Airport
Curaçao International Airport
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner Curaçao Airport Holding
Operator Curaçao Airport Partners
Serves Curaçao
Location Willemstad, Curaçao
Hub for
Elevation AMSL 29 ft / 9 m
Coordinates 12°11′20″N 068°57′35″W / 12.18889°N 68.95972°W / 12.18889; -68.95972Coordinates: 12°11′20″N 068°57′35″W / 12.18889°N 68.95972°W / 12.18889; -68.95972
Website curacao-airport.com
Map
CUR

Location in Curaçao

Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
11/29 3,410 11,188 Asphalt
Statistics (2015)
Passengers 1,700,000
Freight (tonnes) 12,023
Movements 40,483
Source: DAFIF,[1] Zurich Airport[2]

Hato International Airport or Curaçao International Airport (formerly Dr. Albert Plesman International Airport) (IATA: CUR, ICAO: TNCC) is the airport of Willemstad, Curaçao. It has services to the Caribbean region, South America, North America and Europe. Hato Airport is a fairly large facility, with the third longest commercial runway in the Caribbean region after Rafael Hernández Airport in Puerto Rico and Pointe-à-Pitre International Airport in Guadeloupe. The airport serves as a main base for Insel Air.

History

World War II

During World War II, the airport was used by the United States Army Air Forces Sixth Air Force conducting antisubmarine patrols. Flying units using the airfield were:

Detachment operated from: Dakota Field, Aruba, 9 March 1943 – 9 March 1944
Detachment operated from: Losey Army Airfield, Puerto Rico, 9 March-4 June 1944

Later developments

A new terminal was officially opened in 2006 and it accommodates a maximum of 1.6 million passengers per year.[3]

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

AirlinesDestinations
Air Berlin Düsseldorf
Air Canada Rouge Toronto–Pearson
Seasonal: Montréal–Trudeau
Air Transat Seasonal: Toronto–Pearson
American Airlines Charlotte, Miami
Aserca Airlines Caracas
Avianca Bogotá
Avior Airlines Valencia
Copa Airlines Panama City
Divi Divi Air Bonaire
Fly All Ways Paramaribo
Insel Air[4] Aruba, Bonaire, Sint Maarten
JetBlue Airways New York–JFK
KLM Amsterdam
PAWA Dominicana Santo Domingo–Las Américas1
RUTACA Airlines Caracas, Las Piedras, Valencia
Sunwing Airlines Seasonal: Toronto–Pearson
Surinam Airways Paramaribo, Port of Spain
TUI fly Netherlands Amsterdam2
WestJet Seasonal: Toronto–Pearson
Winair
operated by PAWA Dominicana		 Sint Maarten[5]
Notes

Cargo

AirlinesDestinations
Ameriflight Aguadilla, Aruba, Caracas, San Juan
Amerijet International Miami
Aerosucre Bogota
Lineas Aereas Suramericanas Bogota
Vensecar Internacional Caracas

Coast Guard Air Station Hato

Located at the west side of Hato Airport there are hangars for the two Bombardier Dash 8 Maritime Patrol Aircraft and two AgustaWestland AW139 helicopters of the Dutch Caribbean Coast Guard. This was until 2007 a naval airbase of the Royal Netherlands Navy who operated the base for 55 years. With a wide variety of aircraft in the past years Fireflies, Avengers, Trackers, Neptunes, Fokker F-27's, P-3C Orions, Fokker F-60's and several helicopters. After the political decision to sell all Orions the airbase wasn't needed anymore.

The west end of the airport is a USAF Forward Operating Base (FOB). The base hosts AWACS and transport aircraft. Until 1999 the USAF operated a small fleet of F-16 fighters from the FOB.

References

 This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency website http://www.afhra.af.mil/.

  1. ↑ Airport information for TNCC at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.Source: DAFIF.
  2. ↑ Curaçao factsheet. Zurich Airport.
  3. ↑ Curaçao International Airport (official website)
  4. ↑ "Insel Air temporary downsizes operation from March 2017". Retrieved 8 March 2017.
  5. ↑ Winair Curacao, Sint Maarten, Haiti
  6. ↑ http://www.routesonline.com/news/38/airlineroute/272927/tui-netherlands-w17-dutch-caribbean-service-changes/
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