Bonaire’s US arrivals fall 16% as North American airlift shifts
Bonaire, in the Caribbean Netherlands, welcomed 13,701 stayover visitors in August 2026, down 5% from 14,435 a year earlier. The headline decline masks a sharper shift in the island’s source markets: US arrivals fell 16.2%, while the Netherlands remained broadly stable, highlighting the importance of air connectivity and route diversification for Bonaire’s aviation strategy. US […]
Brazil sets the rules for its SAF market ahead of 2027 mandate
Brazil has established the regulatory framework for its domestic aviation decarbonization mandate ahead of its January 2027 start. Decree No. 13,094, signed on August 12, 2026, introduces a national SAF certificate, Book & Claim transactions and links with CORSIA, creating the foundations of a broader sustainable aviation fuel market. Brazil’s new framework regulates the Programa […]
ASUR’s USD 992 million airport deal reshapes its Latin American footprint
Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste (ASUR) completed the acquisition of Motiva’s airport platform on September 1, 2026, for USD 992.2 million. The transaction adds interests in 20 airports across Brazil, Ecuador, Costa Rica and Curaçao, including 17 airports in Brazil, and gives ASUR direct exposure to Latin America’s largest aviation market by passenger traffic. Grupo Aeroportuario […]
Three Years of BermudAir: What 281,853 passengers reveal about its growth
BermudAir has carried 281,853 passengers and flown 5.2 million nautical miles since launching three years ago. The Bermuda-based carrier is now moving beyond its start-up phase, combining a targeted North American network with passenger experience, cargo and holiday packages as it seeks to strengthen the island’s air connectivity. Three years after launching commercial operations, BermudAir […]
How Costa Rica’s Two Main Airports Serve Different Tourism Economies
Costa Rica’s two main international gateways are increasingly serving different tourism economies. Juan Santamaría International Airport remains the country’s broad-based entry point, while Guanacaste Airport is developing as a more specialised leisure gateway, with shorter stays, higher visitor spending and a much stronger concentration of North American traffic. Costa Rica received 1.78 million international tourists […]
Nicaragua’s Aviation Paradox: High Economic Value, Connectivity Still Catching Up
Aviation already supports USD 509.5 million of economic activity and almost 95,000 jobs in Nicaragua, according to IATA, but the country’s air market remains heavily international, concentrated around a limited number of gateways and expensive relative to local incomes. New routes and a USD 55.3 million expansion of Augusto C. Sandino International Airport in Managua […]
Where Latin America’s new airline capacity is really going
Latin America will offer 46.9 million scheduled airline seats in September 2026, up 2.3% from a year earlier. The expansion, however, is increasingly uneven: domestic and intra-regional capacity continue to grow while the North American market has lost more than 400,000 seats. OAG data suggest that the next phase of regional aviation growth may be […]
How Far Can Efficiency Take Latin American Aviation Toward Net Zero?
Latin American airlines are already achieving measurable reductions in carbon intensity through newer aircraft, higher seat density and operational improvements. Cirium’s 2025 emissions data show that those gains can be substantial, while the ALTA/ICF pathway to 2050 also exposes their limit: efficiency can reduce the scale of aviation’s carbon challenge, but it cannot close the […]
MBJ Charity Run/Walk Builds on Six Years of Education Support
Sangster International Airport will host the 2026 MBJ Charity Run/Walk on September 6, marking the sixth year of an initiative that has grown well beyond a one-day airport event. Under this year’s theme, “Supporting Academic Dreams,” the programme has now surpassed $71 million in educational grants, according to MBJ Airports Foundation, directly reaching more than […]
Piarco is building a smarter caribbean airspace
Across a vast stretch of Caribbean and Atlantic airspace, Trinidad and Tobago is changing how aircraft are monitored, separated and transferred between control centres. The transformation of the Piarco Flight Information Region is not centred on a single technology. Ground- and space-based surveillance, digital communications and increasingly flexible routing are being introduced together, as the […]
The Airport Is Visible. The Contract Behind It Is Not.
Runways, terminals and boarding bridges are the visible side of an airport concession. The less visible part can shape the infrastructure for decades: the contract that decides who invests, who carries the risk when traffic falls, when additional capacity must be delivered and what level of performance the operator must maintain. That question is becoming […]
Why Kingston is building 300 metres of runway into the Harbour
A 300-metre runway extension would normally suggest more capacity: additional aircraft movements, longer take-offs or heavier departures. At Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston, however, that is not the primary reason for the work now under way. The project, valued at approximately US$72 million, is being developed to meet runway-safety requirements through the implementation of […]