Insel Air
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| Insel Air International | ||
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| IATA 7I |
ICAO INC |
Callsign Insel Air |
| Founded | 2003 | |
| Hubs | Hato International Airport | |
| Frequent flyer program | Fun Miles | |
| Fleet size | 4 | |
| Destinations | 11 | |
| Parent company | Insel Air B.V. | |
| Company slogan | Best Value, Great Care! | |
| Headquarters | Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles | |
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| Website: http://www.fly-inselair.com/ | ||
Insel Air International B.V. (Insel Air) is an airline based in Willemstad, Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles. It has Hato International Airport in Curaçao as its home base. Insel is German for island. Insel Air was incorporated as a private limited liability company (Dutch: Besloten Vennootschap) on September 8, 1993 and is registered with the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Curaçao under number 64577. Insel Air's logo (see picture) includes a large and a small yellow star representing Curaçao and 'Small Curacço', a small island near and belonging to Curaçao.
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[edit] History
Insel Air is a private initiative of various businesses and financial institutions who recognized the need and importance for a Curaçao based and owned airline to provide reliable quality sevice to regional destinations for a reasonable price. The airline started operations in 2006 with one Embraer 110-P1 Bandeirante flying from Curaçao. The first flight was to the neighboring island of Aruba. Soon after the daily scheduled flights to Aruba, Insel Air started with flights to the other neighboring island of Bonaire. On December 9, 2006, Insel Air announced the successful legal and financial closure of the Regional Airlift for the Island of Curaçao. This regional airlift will be served with a MD-83. After obtaining rights for a Curaçao-St. Maarten route, the airline still did not obtain their MD-83, thus they had leased the SLM MD-82 for their St. Maarten flight, until their MD-83 arrived at Curaçao.
Insel Air uses Travel Technology Interactive's airline management system, Aeropack.
[edit] Destinations
- Oranjestad, Aruba (Queen Beatrix International Airport)
- Kralendijk, Bonaire (Flamingo International Airport)
- Manaus, Brazil (Eduardo Gomes International Airport)
- Willemstad, Curaçao (Hato International Airport)
- Port-au-Prince. Haiti (Toussaint Louverture International Airport)
- Punto Fijo, Venezuela (Josefa Camejo International Airport)
- Las Américas, Santo Domingo (Las Américas International Airport)
- Philipsburg, St. Maarten (Princess Juliana International Airport)
- Zanderij Suriname (Johan Adolf Pengel International Airport)
- Port of Spain, Trinidad (Piarco International Airport)
- Valencia, Venezuela (Arturo Michelena International Airport)
Insel Air serves daily flights form Curaçao to Aruba and several flights per week to Bonaire and Las Piedras. An inaugural flight to St. Maarten with Insel's MD-83 was made on December 27, 2006. The first commercial flight with the MD-83 to St. Maarten was made on January 5th, 2007, followed by first flights during January to Suriname, Trinidad, Valencia and Haiti.
[edit] Customer Loyalty Program
Insel Air is a participant of the Fun Miles customer loyaly program maintained by Fun Miles Antilles N.V. in the islands of Curaçao, Aruba, Bonaire and St. Maarten. Insel Air passengers receive Fun Miles which are redeemable for Insel Air tickets for goods and services from other participating Fun Miles merchants. For award programs see award program For more information on Fun Miles, see Fun Miles
[edit] Incidents & accidents
In July 2007, Insel Air's MD83, registration PJ-MDA, was struck by one of the ground handeling trucks at the airport of St. Maarten. On the same day, a DAE Fokker 100 had broken down at Curaçao and DAE had asked Insel Air if it could take their passengers for them to Curaçao, but it turned out that the DAE Fokker 100 had to take all the passengers, including the Insel Air passengers themselves since the Insel Air MD83 had to fly without its passengers back to Curaçao. The MD83 was fixed and is still flying with Insel Air.
[edit] Fleet
The Insel Air fleet includes the following aircraft (at January 2008):
| Aircraft | Total | Passengers |
Registration | Notes |
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| Embraer 110-P1 Bandeirante | 2 | 21 | PJ-VIA, PJ-VIP | PJ-VIA will start flying in the next 2 weeks |
| McDonnell Douglas MD-82 | 1 | 152 | PJ-MDB | Registration has been changed to PJ-MDB (was ZS-OPU when delivered). Aircraft returned to Curaçao on June 3, 2008. |
| McDonnell Douglas MD-83 | 1 | 155 | PJ-MDA |
