Latin America’s SAF Pipeline Is Moving Beyond Announcements
Latin America’s sustainable aviation fuel industry is beginning to move from announced projects to investment commitments and commercial production. An ALTA/ICF study identified more than 1.9 billion gallons of proposed SAF capacity but no final investment decisions as of November 2025. Developments at Acelen Renewables and Petrobras in Brazil during 2026 mark an important change, […]
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 […]
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 […]
The multi-port logic Behind Dominican cruise growth
The Dominican Republic is adding more than cruise capacity. New infrastructure in Samaná, year-round homeporting in La Romana and a new destination partnership on Catalina Island are giving different parts of the country increasingly distinct roles in its cruise network. The expansion comes as the country pushes to diversify its port offer and strengthen connections […]
North America Dominates the Dominican Republic’s International Air Market
The Dominican Republic has consolidated its position as one of Latin America and the Caribbean’s largest international aviation markets, with 8.9 million international origin-destination (O-D) passenger departures in 2023. According to IATA’s latest country report, the market ranks 43rd globally by international passenger departures after recording 62.7% cumulative growth over the past decade. Behind those […]
Guadeloupe ’s regional air recovery remains uneven across Caribbean markets
Guadeloupe ’s regional air traffic continued to recover in 2025, but the picture remains sharply uneven across neighboring markets. While flows to Martinique, French Guiana and the Northern Islands strengthened, traffic with the wider Caribbean remained well below pre-pandemic levels, highlighting a persistent gap in the recovery of regional connectivity. According to Guadeloupe Maryse Condé […]
ACI-LAC/NACO STUDY- When Caribbean Airports Compete Rather Than Connect
Montego Bay and Aruba share 85% of their extra-Caribbean network. Punta Cana and Montego Bay, 83%. Nassau and Bridgetown, 85%. The NACO/ACI-LAC study released in March 2026 introduces an original indicator — the Route Network Overlap Index — that exposes head-to-head competition between Caribbean hubs to capture the same North American flow. A decoding. With […]
Fewer routes, broader networks: why Caribbean airlines are increasingly turning to partnerships
Caribbean Airlines’ decision to discontinue several regional routes and reduce frequencies on others may appear, at first glance, to be another round of network adjustments. Yet the announcement points to a broader reality facing carriers across the Caribbean: maintaining regional connectivity is becoming increasingly dependent on partnerships rather than direct operations. From June 1, 2026, […]
Why small island states could become the real stress test of ICAO’s 2050 aviation strategy
As the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) looks ahead to a future of 12.4 billion annual passengers by 2050, the conversation is often dominated by airport expansion, new technologies and decarbonization. Yet one of the most consequential questions raised by the organization’s Strategic Plan 2026–2050 is whether all countries will be able to benefit equally […]
How Port Purcell outperformed larger Caribbean terminals in 2025
For years, the Caribbean’s container port hierarchy has largely been dominated by the region’s major transshipment hubs. Larger facilities in Jamaica, The Bahamas or Trinidad typically attract most of the attention when conversations turn to cargo performance, infrastructure investment and regional competitiveness. That is what made the 2025 results of the Caribbean Shipping Association’s Ludlow […]
Cruise Executives Are Sending a Clear Warning on Taxes and Passenger Fees
Across the Caribbean and Latin America, discussions around cruise passenger taxes and port fees appear to be entering a more sensitive phase. The latest Travel & Cruise Magazine published by the Florida-Caribbean Cruise Association (FCCA) repeatedly references concerns from cruise executives regarding rising fiscal pressure on the industry, particularly as several destinations consider higher passenger […]
ECCAA legal seminar. Why Caribbean air connectivity still depends on bilateral agreements
Air connectivity across the Caribbean continues to operate within a legal framework largely built on bilateral agreements negotiated between states, a system whose foundations date back to the post-war development of international civil aviation. The issue was among the themes discussed during the First Legal Seminar on Emerging Legal Frameworks in Civil Aviation organized by […]