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LOCAL Thursday 11 January 2018

2018 kicked off with a successful “Super Weekend”: Aruba Airport

handled over 24,000 passengers and over 250 aircraft movements

ORANJESTAD –Aruba Airport sengers and 251total air- in a positive passenger ex- sults could not have been Aruba Tourism Authority
Authority N.V. (AAA) kicked craft operations were han- perience for the thousands possible without the great (ATA), the airlines, ground
off 2018 on a positive note dled (both commercial and of people traveling through efforts of the US Customs handlers, Department of
considering the amount of private) in the 2-day period, the airport. These results and Border Protection, Lo- Public Transportation (DTP),
passengers and airplane the taxi cab drivers, con-
movements handled in cession and F&B opera-
the first weekend of 2016, tors, Total Services, Valero,
known as “Super Week- Flexo, Aruba Security and
end”. Crime Prevention, W Avia-
The first weekend after New tion FBO and the AAA team
Year’s Day is historically the amongst others. AAA CEO
busiest period for passen- Mr. James Fazio comment-
ger traffic worldwide and at ed on the Super Weekend
Queen Beatrix International by saying: “Compared to
Airport due to the amount of previous years we handled
passengers that arrive and slightly less passengers and
depart from Aruba after the aircrafts, due to the disrup-
holiday season. tion in the Northeast US due
to the snow storm, which
Of course, such an extreme- resulted in several days of
ly busy weekend required cancellations, and also the
good planning and coor- shut-down from Venezuela.
dination between all the But nonetheless, the key in-
stakeholders, departments gredient for the successful
and employees at the air- Super Weekend was great
port. These planning efforts teamwork by all the airport
prior to this period showed the operation maintained take a tremendous amount cal Immigrations (IASA), the partners. It’s impressive
great results when looking at the highest levels of safety of coordination, planning Border Police Department what can be accomplished
the fact that even though it and security, along with ef- and commitment from a at the airport, Aruba Cus- with the right focus and
was a super busy weekend ficient and effective pas- number of airport partners, toms, Air Navigation Ser- commitment, great job by
where a total of 24.213 pas- senger processing, resulting and this past weekend’s re- vices Aruba N.V. (ANSA), all.”q