Bon Bini Curacao!
It’s always great when we’re able to celebrate our successes, and so we’ve enjoyed reflecting on a fantastic first year of flying to Curacao.

The service remains highly popular and it’s easy to see why. It’s intriguing. Curacao is the largest of the Netherlands Antilles and its capital, Willemstad, has some very fine Dutch colonial architecture painted in a variety of pastel colours, while in the countryside there are several beautiful plantation houses, called landhuisen. It also has one of the most important historical sites in the Caribbean, but we won’t say what that is as it will give away the answer to one of our quiz questions on page 90!

For most of the 20th century the island’s fortunes, like Aruba, depended on its oil refinery, which processes Venezuelan crude oil, but more recently tourism has increased in importance. Diving has grown very popular since the establishment of an underwater park to preserve the reef and there are dive sites all along the Leeward side of the island.

LIAT still operates four flights a week to Curacao, routing from Barbados through Trinidad, from 09h50 to 12h05 every Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. The return flights, on the same days, from Curacao to Trinidad and Tobago and on to Barbados leave Hato International at 12h35, arriving at 14h50.

Off to the World Creole Music Festival in Dominica?
LIAT is laying on additional flights to meet the demand for visitors to this event, from October 31 to November 2.
Book early on www.liat.com!

We want to fly you to...Puerto Rico!
10 reasons to board our new flights
We now provide daily schedules into Puerto Rico’s Luiz Munoz Marin International Airport from Tortola via Antigua (arriving 10h15), St Lucia via St Vincent (arriving 13h00) and, new from September, from St Kitts (arriving 19h25). Here’s just 10 reasons why you should be boarding one of those planes!

1 Vieques bioluminescent bay. One of the Caribbean’s most amazing natural assets.
2 Ruta Panoramica. Take a muscle-flexing ride across the island’s highest volcanic peaks and through some of its most beautiful forests.
3 El Yunque. Listen to the whisperin winds of El Yunque, a dark interior jungle full of misty secrets.
4 Old San Juan. Drink, dine and dance on cobblestone streets in the most romantic part of the island.
5 Observatoria de Arecibo. Discover a whole new universe at the world’s largest radio telescope.
6 Parque de las Cavernas del Rio Camuy. Trek through the island’s cavernous limestone belly and gaze at stalactites, stalagmites and sleeping bats.
7 Rincon. Big waves and nasty breakers bring the surfers, whales bring nature lovers and Isla Desecheo brings scuba divers.
8 Ponce. Enjoy sultry nights stolling in colonial Ponce and explore the historic restored haciendas.
9 Barranquitas. Soak up island history from this mountainside town, while navigating the steeply pitched streets.
10 Bosque Estatal de Guanica. Hike, swim and bird-watch in this rare subtropical dry forest.