Aruba Airport Authority Reports Record Breaking Results

Double digit percentage traffic growth and the highest quarterly revenue generating passengers (RGP) figures in the last seven years, simply put, Queen Beatrix International Airport made history in 2007.

Both Passenger and aircraft movements were up compared to fourth quarter 2006 by 19.9 percent and 26 percent respectively. Passenger RGP figures for October, November and December were 16.4 percent, 18.3 percent and 24.6 percent higher than the same months in 2006.

Cumulative PGP passenger figures have been the highest they have ever been during the last seven years during October, November and December of 2007 punching in at 739,806, 815,958 and 902,874 translating into a record 11.7 percent year end 2007 increase over 2006.

As with passenger figures, monthly aircraft movements during the final quarter of 2007 hit record highs. October, November and December showed a 15 percent, 18.4 percent and 36.5 percent growth over the same months in 2006. Total aircraft movements increased with 8.1 percent to 35774 for 2007 compared to 2006.

All main tourism markets have shown an increase during the forth and final quarter of 2007 compared to 2006. Latin America, that struggled during the first 6 months of the year bounced back with a vengeance at a 77 percent increase over fourth quarter 2006, December showed an astounding 109.7 percent increase.

The majority of the growth in Latin America came from Venezuela with the incentive to obtain US currency being a major influence on the huge increase. North America, the Netherlands Antilles and Europe showed quarterly results at 8.5 percent, 19.7 percent and 21.7 percent respectively.