Air Charter Aruba arranges passenger charter to and from Aruba in every size of aircraft, from a light jet for a couple flying down from Miami to a VIP airliner for a destination wedding or a company incentive trip. The right category for your trip comes down to four things: how far you are traveling, how many people are traveling, how much baggage is coming, and whether you want to fly the whole way without a fuel stop.
Aircraft Categories
- Helicopters, where the route and conditions suit one
- Piston aircraft for short legs only
- Turboprops for shorter flights such as San Juan and South Florida
- Very light jets for a small group, usually with a fuel stop from the United States
- Light jets for Miami, Fort Lauderdale and Palm Beach
- Super light jets for a little more cabin and range
- Midsize jets for the Southeast and the Mid-Atlantic
- Super midsize jets for New York, Boston, Chicago and Toronto
- Heavy jets for larger groups over long distances
- Long range jets for Europe and the West Coast
- VIP airliners for groups that outgrow a heavy jet
Each category page lists the aircraft we arrange in it, with cabin, range and seating for each type.
Choosing a Category for Your Trip
Distance decides a lot on an Aruba trip. From South Florida, the island is about a thousand nautical miles away, which many light and midsize jets fly nonstop. From New York, Boston or Washington it is roughly 1,600 to 1,800 nautical miles, so a midsize or super midsize jet is usually the smallest aircraft that makes it in one leg, and a smaller jet will often stop for fuel. Families, honeymooners, wedding parties and timeshare owners all fly to Aruba, so tell us the passenger count and the baggage, dive gear and golf bags included, at the start.
Once the group runs past nineteen passengers, the trip calls for an airliner-size aircraft and no longer falls under FAR Part 135, the FAA’s rules for on-demand, for-hire charter. Those flights operate under FAR Part 121 or a foreign equivalent, which generally carries stricter crew and operating requirements than both Part 91 and Part 135.
Every private flight to Aruba lands at Queen Beatrix International in Oranjestad, the island’s only airport, and it is closed to private flights between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m., so we plan arrival times around those hours. The runway a particular aircraft needs is calculated by the operator for that day’s conditions, and your advisor confirms it with the operator before anything is booked.
Vetting Behind Every Trip
Every operator, aircraft, and crew goes through our internal due diligence before we present any options. Our internal standards meet or exceed what the FAA requires:
- FAR Part 135 charter operators for traditional private aircraft, or FAR Part 121 for airliner-size and group trips (or the foreign equivalent on international legs)
- Operator subscription to Wyvern and ARGUS reviewed where the operator participates.
- Pilot experience and operator incident history reviewed before we recommend an aircraft.
- Fewer than 60 brokers worldwide hold Premium Wyvern Broker Member status, and Air Charter Advisors is one of them.
Contact
Call 1-888-987-5387 at any hour, or send your trip through our contact page, and we will come back with aircraft that fit. Our safety page explains how we review operators and crews, and our air cargo page covers freight charter.