Air Charter Aruba arranges flights for technology companies and their people, from a leadership team flying to Aruba for an offsite to an executive who has to leave the island for a meeting that cannot move.
Company retreats and incentive trips
Aruba hosts company incentive trips and retreats as well as vacationers, and tech firms often want the whole team on the island at the same time. For a larger group, your advisor will compare one large aircraft with two or three smaller ones leaving from different cities, and send you the options side by side. If people need to work on the way down, ask about Wi-Fi when you request a quote, because it varies from one aircraft to the next.
Leaving the island for a meeting
Executives on vacation in Aruba sometimes need to fly back to the US for a board meeting, a product launch or a customer visit, and then return to their family. We can arrange a one-way flight or a round trip around the meeting time. Tell us where the meeting is and when it starts, and your advisor will work out the departure time from Aruba.
Privacy and equipment
We only share passenger names and itineraries with the operator and the crew assigned to your flight. If the team is bringing hardware, demo units or other equipment, tell us the size and weight early. Every trip to Aruba crosses a border in both directions, and some loads fit in the baggage hold while others need a dedicated cargo flight. Our air cargo page covers the larger shipments.
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.