The Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba has continued a 12 months of enlargement out of the Latin American market with new service on LATAM, Caribbean Journal has discovered. The brand new service connects Aruba with Lima, Peru.
It’s the primary time Aruba has had a flight from Lima in additional than a decade. Now Aruba has three hubs in Latin America: Bogota, Colombia, with Avianca; and Panama, on Copa Airways.
Lima-Aruba flights are working thrice weekly, with service on Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays. The corporate is working service on Airbus A320 plane with capability for 174 vacationers.
“We now have been actively pursuing a diversification technique. This second is a testomony to the laborious work on the island and by our workforce in Latin America,” mentioned Ronella Croes, CEO of the Aruba Tourism Authority. “This inaugural flight represents a implausible alternative to increase our market share of holiday makers from Latin America and additional strengthen our bonds with LATAM Airways.”
Crose mentioned 2024 was anticipated to have a “robust begin for Aruba, particularly from the Southern Cone.”
That may permit for potential progress of shut to eight % vs. 2023, she mentioned, “permitting us to seize extra economically enticing markets, together with Chile and Brazil, with excessive spending patterns, Peru with 25% of repeaters, and Argentina with a median size of keep of 9 nights.”
Aruba has already welcomed new flights from a number of supply markets in South America to this point this 12 months.
That features new flights from Cali, Colombia on Wingo and expanded service on Avianca out of Medellin, amongst others.