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About

Insel Air was the largest Caribbean-based airlines and has grown to be one of the best airlines in providing international flexible connectivity since 2006, to North and South America as well as the Caribbean region.

The airline flew to: Havana, Manaus, Georgetown, Santiago de Cuba, Barquisimeto, Paramaribo, Caracas, Las Piedras, Maracaibo, Valencia, Barranquilla, St. Maarten, Medellin, Quito destinations in the Caribbean include Aruba, Port-of-Spain, Bonaire, Curaçao, Holguin, Santa Clara, Camaguey, San Juan, Santo Domingo, Port-au-Prince, Kingston and Miami in the USA. 

Insel Air’s home-base is located in Curaçao and its hub is in Aruba, therefore providing frequent flights between the two locations with a short fight time. The airline also provided great connectivity to for all their passengers across and within the Pan-American region. 

In February 2019, the airline was forced to suspend operations due to 'operational issues'. Later in the month, it was revealed that the airline was suffering from financial issues when the airline filed for bankruptcy and ceased all operations with immediate effect.

Baggage

Insel Air passengers were allowed one free checked and carry-on baggage, with the option to opt for Comfort Class, allowing access to business lounges, pre-boarding, extra legroom, extra luggage allowance.

Fleet

Insel Air offered three types of aircraft to meet its chartering needs: McDonnell Douglas, Fokker 70, Fokker 50 and Embraer Bandeirante. Curacao International Airport, where the airline was based, offers a broad range of superior services of shopping and restaurant establishments. Curacao International Airport is located between the North and South America and borders on the Venezuelan coast.

A twenty-minute ride will take you to the downtown historic Punda - a UNESCO World Heritage site characterized by fun entertainment, restaurants and great shopping. Curaçao has daily non-stop air services from Miami, Amsterdam and Bogota, complemented by convenient services to Aruba, Bonaire, St. Maarten, Santo Domingo, Port of Spain, Caracas and Paramaribo among others.

News

23rd May 2018

Financial Compensation For Cabin Crew Insel Air’s MD Aircraft

Local airline Insel Air may terminate the employment contract with the cabin crew of the MD aircraft on June 1, but every employee must receive a financial compensation. The court decided that at the end of last week.

The cabin crew and eleven pilots were sent home last month, but have challenged their dismissal. The court’s decision concerned only the cabin crew.

The judge considers it 'sufficiently plausible that The airline is in such a bad financial situation that the number of employees must be reduced in order to guarantee the continuity of the company'. It has also been established that the 'last in first out principle' has not been violated.

The employment contract with the relevant employees can be dissolved with effect from June 1, 2018, the Joint Court of Justice reports in a press release. On each case, subject to the specific circumstances, a severance payment has been granted to each employee. The judge is of the opinion that there is a collective dismissal and that the individual dismissal requests do not stand alone but are part of the 26 requests that Insel Air filed with the court.

In order to prevent the employees concerned from being disadvantaged by The airline's choice of a dissolution procedure instead of a collective dismissal request to the Ministry of Social Development, Labor and Welfare (SOAW), the court has assessed whether the safeguards in the National Ordinance on the termination of employment contracts and the ministerial guidelines are built in to review collective redundancies, have been observed.