Air Charter Aruba works with family offices that arrange travel to Aruba for the principals, their children and grandchildren, and the household staff who come along. Most of these trips repeat through the year, around the winter season, the holidays and school breaks, and the person organizing them is usually handling several other jobs at the same time.
Trips that come back every season
Many families who vacation in Aruba return to the same home or timeshare several times a year. When you work with us, you deal with the same advisor each time. We keep the family’s preferences on file, including the aircraft they like, catering, pets on board and the times they prefer to fly, so a booking in March starts from what we learned in December.
From the New York and Boston area, the island is roughly 1,600 to 1,800 nautical miles away, so a midsize or super midsize jet is usually the smallest aircraft that makes the trip nonstop. Your advisor will go through the options for each departure city the family uses.
Privacy and paperwork for the whole family
Only the operator and the flight crew see the family’s names and travel plans. Every trip to Aruba is international, so each traveler, infants included, needs a passport valid for the stay and must complete Aruba’s online ED card before leaving home. Your advisor will help you make sure it is done for everyone on board.
When the family aircraft is unavailable
Some families own an aircraft. When it goes in for scheduled maintenance, or develops a mechanical problem during a trip, we can arrange a replacement flight with a certified operator, subject to scheduling and aircraft availability. If the family is thinking about buying an aircraft, we also work on aircraft sales and acquisition. A season of charter flights to Aruba is a good way to learn which size of aircraft the family actually needs before committing to one. You can read more about how we cover these situations on our flight department back-up page.
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.
Aruba-Specific Patterns We Plan Around
Most Aruba trips start in the United States, and the island is busiest from Christmas through Easter, with Carnival season in January and February, so those dates book first. Queen Beatrix International in Oranjestad is the only airport, and it is closed to private flights between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m., so we plan arrival and departure times inside its hours. Every trip is international: the flight clears Aruban customs and immigration when it arrives, every passenger completes Aruba’s online ED card before traveling, and landing permission is arranged once the trip is booked. From South Florida the island is about a thousand nautical miles away and from the Northeast roughly 1,600 to 1,800, which decides whether a smaller jet needs a fuel stop. Aruba sits on the southern edge of the hurricane belt, but hurricane season runs from June 1st to November 30th, and a storm farther north can affect the flight down.
Contact
For a quote on a charter to Aruba, send the trip through our contact page or call an advisor at 1-888-987-5387. Our safety page sets out how we review operators and crews, and the aircraft gallery covers every category we arrange. We are also a member of the National Business Aviation Association.