What about Insel Air flights?

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After his bankruptcy announcement, What about Insel Air flights?

Update 06/03/2018:

The Civil Aviation Council of Ecuador – CNAC definitively revoked the operating permit that Insel Air had to operate from Aruba/Curaçao to Quito with 2 weekly flights as detailed:

Update 12/10/2017:

Insel Air recovered the operating permit for its MD-83 aircraft, with which you can fly again to Sint Maarten instead of the Fokker 50 with those who had been operating on their only route. This measure, It is positive for the airline, since it allows you to generate greater income and gradually return to other destinations with medium-distance aircraft:

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in June 2017 the Netherlands Antilles airline officially declared bankruptcy, after reducing its international flights to all its destinations since the beginning of this year. The airline's problems were known and reached operational high points when its fleet of MD aircraft had a series of safety problems., where a flight to Miami was involved that suffered decompression problems, The FAA took action and the problems deepened and more problems came to light..

In the first semester of 2017, International flights stopped operating and the airline contracted, leaving only a domestic inter-island operation to Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao with operation of Insel Air Aruba and Insel Air Curacao. Although the closure of international flights was announced, currently the airline operates until 12 weekly flights to Saint Maarten from Curacao, your only international destination.

The bankruptcy of Insel Air International

The bankruptcy process in each country is different, as is obvious., That is why the process was recently approved by the Curaçao authorities.:

This process ensures the airline the continuity of its operations within the legal framework of Curaçao legislation.. With this approval, The airline will be able to renegotiate its debts with creditors, suppliers and others, just like a Chapter 11 in United States, which airlines such as American Airlines have joined and recently Dynamic International Airways.

Let's meet Insel Air

This relatively new airline that began operations in August 2006 with an Embraer 110 Bandeirante under the name Insel Air International B.V. (Island Air), Its headquarters and main base of operations are located in La Paradisiaca., but commercial island of Curaçao and came to cover 25 national and international destinations.

Its first flights were to neighboring Aruba (now secondary HUB), Bonaire and its first internationalization came with flights to nearby Las Piedras in Venezuela. Less than a year after start of operations, the airline found great potential in the market, so it incorporated the first of its MD-82, also counting in its fleet with the version -83. With the incorporation of the classic McDonald's Douglas, the airline expanded its horizons, arriving in the United States for the first time., specifically to Miami.

With the addition of an MD-80 and an MD-82 in the 2009 the company expanded its operations to Medellín, Barquisimeto, Caracas and Charlotte. Continuing with its consolidation and growth, at 2011 Its fleet was strengthened with the incorporation of new aircraft, which has allowed it until that moment to fly to the following destinations from its main HUB in Curacao and its secondary one in Aruba:

Barquisimeto – Barranquilla – Bucaramanga – Cali – Caracas – Charlotte – Georgetown – Havana – Kingston Kralendijk – Manaus – Maracaibo – Medellin – Miami – Oranjestad – Paramaribo – St Martin – Port au Prince – Port of Spain – Punta Cana – Punto Fijo – Quito – Santo Domingo – San Juan – Valencia Willemstad.

further, The company has a codeshare alliance with KLM, for the benefit of its clients, since it offers the possibility of reaching the entire network of destinations of the Dutch airline from its HUB in Amsterdam by connecting in 5 Insel Air destinations where both are or were.

Insel Air fleet

Its fleet is currently made up of two Embraers 110 with capacity for 15 passengers (stored and would be used for charter flights), six Fokker 50 with capacity for 50 passengers in 2 lessons, sixty Fokkers 70 with a capacity to 80 passengers in 2 classes and eight MD-80 (82 and 83) with capacity for 152 passengers in 2 lessons; thus adding a grand total of 19 planes.

For now, The current status of the fleet or whether aircraft have been returned to their owners or sold to cover debts is unknown..

Your route to Quito from Aruba

The 19 October 2015 la aerolínea aterrizaba por primera vez en Quito con un Fokker 70 matrícula P4-FKA MSN 11528 with capacity for 80 passengers in 2 lessons (15 Comfort Class y 65 en Economy Class). The occupancy of this first flight was 79 passengers among guests and clients of various nationalities from Venezuela, Aruba, China and others, who were welcomed by airline and airport authorities, receiving the traditional “Pioneer Passenger” certificate. The plane landed on time, even before itinerary, and was received by the traditional arch of water by the aeronautical firefighters of the country's main airport on an unusual platform, general aviation platform.

The route to Quito was sold exclusively in travel agencies from Ecuador and directly on the airline's website if the flight originated in Aruba.. After completing one year and 2 months of operations, the airline began flying from Curacao to Quito, instead of Aruba, but this route had the same purpose as the rest of the international routes and the last flight to Quito was completed on 18 from December to 2016:

For 6 months @InselAir suspends his 2 weekly flights between #Aruba and #Quito for 2 weekly flights between #Curacao y Quito ✈️ pic.twitter.com/SX8EcB56pU

— Nicholas Larenas ✈️ (@n_larenas) January 20, 2017

The airline requested in the 2016 the temporary suspension of its route between Quito and Aruba from 21 from December to 21 of June, but as we know and given the situation of the airline, this was not resumed.

Then came this:

Until 15 of September, #InselAir is authorized to suspend route to #Quito. Se espera reestructuración de aerolínea hasta ese entonces ✈️ pic.twitter.com/g5IkKTAnlL

— Nicholas Larenas ✈️ (@n_larenas) April 24, 2017

The airline had already started flying from Curacao to Quito, He also requested the suspension of his flight, which was authorized until this 15 September 2017, but it won't reboot for all we know, then the airline risks losing the operating permit to Ecuador and in the event that they intend to fly to Ecuador again, They must request a new extension of the suspension or, in the last case,, start a new route request process.

The future of Insel Air

With the acceptance of bankruptcy, The airline has a new opportunity to adjust its debts and clean up its economy in order to gradually recover the normality of its operation and return to flying to all its destinations or at least to those that left the airline with the best profitability..

in the coming months, Insel Air would resume some nearby destinations such as Colombia and Punta Cana and other important ones due to demand and profitability such as Miami.

Finally, los rumores de una fuerte intención de compra por parte de Avianca – Synergy Group hacen pensar de un futuro prometedor, but the name of the company would end up disappearing, despite the legal complications that still exist due to local legislation.

To this day there is talk of Avior in purchase plans for Insel Air, but everything made difficult by Aruba legislation.

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