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Hato International Airport
Curaçao International Airport
Summary
Airport typePublic
OwnerCuraçao Airport Holding
OperatorCuraçao Airport Partners
ServesCuraçao
LocationWillemstad, Curaçao
Hub for
Elevation AMSL29 ft / 9 m
Websitewww.curacao-airport.com
Map
CUR is located in Curaçao
CUR
CUR
Location in Curaçao
Map
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
11/29 3,410 11,188 Asphalt
Source: DAFIF[1]

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 second longest commercial runway in the Caribbean region (after Rafael Hernández Airport). The airport serves as a main base for Insel Air and until its bankruptcy in September 2013 Dutch Antilles Express.

A new terminal was officially opened in 2006 and it accommodates a maximum of 1.6 million passengers per year.[2]

Airlines and destinations

Scheduled airlines

AirlinesDestinations
Air Berlin Düsseldorf
Air Canada Seasonal: Montréal–Trudeau (begins January 1, 2015)[3]
Air Canada Rouge Toronto-Pearson
American Airlines Miami
ArkeFly Amsterdam
Avianca/Aerogal Bogotá
Avior Airlines Caracas, Valencia (Venezuela)
Seasonal: Barquisimeto
Copa Airlines Panama City
Divi Divi Air Bonaire
Estelar Latinoamérica Caracas
EZAir Bonaire
Insel Air Aruba, Barranquilla, Barquisimeto, Bonaire, Caracas, Charlotte, Georgetown (begins December 18, 2014), Kingston–Norman Manley, La Romana, Las Piedras, Maracaibo, Medellín, Miami, Paramaribo, Port-au-Prince, Port of Spain (resumes December 15, 2014), Santo Domingo-Las Américas, Sint Maarten, Valencia, Valencia,
Insel Air Aruba Aruba, Bonaire, Sint Maarten
JetBlue Airways New York-JFK (begins December 2, 2014)[4]
KLM Amsterdam, Sint Maarten
RUTACA Airlines Caracas
Sunwing Airlines Seasonal Charter: Toronto-Pearson
Surinam Airways Paramaribo, Port of Spain
WestJet Seasonal: Toronto-Pearson

Cargo airlines

AirlinesDestinations
Amerijet International Miami
DHL Aero Expreso Panama City
Fedex Express Memphis, Miami
Lineas Aereas Suramericanas Bogota
Martinair Cargo Amsterdam
Aerosucre Bogota
Emirates Amsterdam

Charter airlines

AirlinesDestinations
Blue Panorama Milan-Malpensa
TAME Quito

The New Curaçao terminal at dusk.

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

Coastguard Air Station HATO

Located at the west side of Hato Airport there is a small hangar for the 2 Dash-8 patrol aircraft of the Coast Guard Netherlands Antilles & Aruba. 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

Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency

  1. ^ Template:WAD
  2. ^ Curaçao International Airport (official website)
  3. ^ http://www.traveldailynews.com/briefings/article/52095/reaching-the-caribbean
  4. ^ http://finance.yahoo.com/news/jetblue-launch-nonstop-york-curacao-100000538.html;_ylt=AwrBJR.FlNlT9CEAS87QtDMD
  • Maurer, Maurer, ed. (1982) [1969]. Combat Squadrons of the Air Force, World War II (PDF) (reprint ed.). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-405-12194-6. LCCN 70605402. OCLC 72556.
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