History
The airline started operations in August 2006 with one Embraer 110-P1 Bandeirante flying from Curaçao. The first flight was to the neighbouring island of Aruba. Soon after the daily scheduled flights to Aruba, Insel Air started with flights to the other neighbouring island of Bonaire and also Las Piedras in Venezuela.
Since January 2007, Insel Air serves the Eastern and Northern Caribbean islands through Sint Maarten with a McDonnell Douglas MD-83 and since June 2008 also with a McDonnell Douglas MD-82. They have also added services to Miami via Curacao and Bonaire.
In September 2009, Insel Air took delivery of a second MD-82 aircraft. The aircraft arrived at Curacao as N434AG also featuring the new logo and being the only MD-80 with the known "screwdriver tail" (at the time). The aircraft was later re-registered as PJ-MDC.
Insel took delivery of its fourth MD80 (third MD82) on December 4, 2009 and a fifth MD80 (fourth MD82) in May 2011. In 2011 Insel Air started with four destinations – Medellin in Colombia, Charlotte in the US and Barquisimeto and Caracas in Venezuela.
Insel Air began in 2006 with 1 Bandeirante aircraft with 19 seats. Meanwhile, the company has grown into an airline with 13 aircraft amongst which three (3) Embraer Bandeirante, four (4) fokker 50 aircraft of which 1 is used for parts, and as of January 2013 six (6) MD82/83 aircraft. Of these 13 aircraft by December 31st, 2012, eleven (11) are owned by Insel Air. With the addition of these aircraft's the total number of seats in Insel Air's fleet rose spectacularly from 19 seats in 2006 to 167 in 2007, 319 in 2008, 653 in 2010, 955 in 2011 and in 2013 it will be 1.259.
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