Aruba loses 61% of its air seats in a week.

The Official Airline Guide (OAG) reports that between Monday March 16th and Monday March 23rd Aruba lost 61% of its air seats, falling from 33,338 seats per week to 12,860, with a further decline of 14% to occur in the week of March 23rd.

Aruba - Total Available Air Seats
​Source OAG

	Available Seats	% change	Flights	% change
20-Jan	30,520		244
27-Jan	29,992	-1.7%	241	-1.2%
3-Feb	29,714	-0.9%	240	-0.4%
10-Feb	30,610	3.0%	248	3.3%
17-Feb	32,514	6.2%	259	4.4%
24-Feb	32,206	-0.9%	256	-1.2%
2-Mar	33,289	3.4%	259	1.2%
9-Mar	32,871	-1.3%	257	-0.8%
16-Mar	33,338	1.4%	259	0.8%
23-Mar	12,860	-61.4%	124	-52.1%
30-Mar	11,061	-14.0%	120	-3.2%

Seats by Origin Market

	Week March 16th		Week March 23rd		Seats	Flights
	Seats	Flights	Seats	Flights	% change	% change
Bonaire	2,788	29	2,255	24	-19.1%	-17.2%
Canada	1,739	11	741	4	-57.4%	-63.6%
Colombia	2,044	17	434	3	-78.8%	-82.4%
Curacao	1,944	57	703	37	-63.8%	-35.1%
Dominican Republic	102	3	102	3	0.0%	0.0%
Netherlands	603	2	610	2	1.2%	0.0%
Panama	1,144	8	1,106	8	-3.3%	0.0%
Suriname	256	2	256	2	0.0%	0.0%
Sweden	322	1	-	-	-100.0%	-100.0%
USA	22,396	129	6,653	41	-70.3%	-68.2%
Total	33,338	259	12,860	124	-61.4%	-52.1%

In the same week, between March 16th and March 23rd, the Caribbean as a whole saw a loss of 246,712 seats, a drop of 23.7%, falling from 1,039,055 seats to 792,343 with much of the loss being seats from the USA.

Unfortunately, Aruba appears to have the largest loss of seats on a percentage decline basis while the Dominican Republic lost the most seats overall, seeing a loss of 67,474 seats in that one week.

				Change 3/16 - 3/23
	24-Feb	16-Mar	23-Mar	% change	# seats
Aruba	32,206	33,338	12,860	-61.4%	(20,478)
Bermuda	8,302	8,640	3,460	-60.0%	(5,180)
St Maarten (dutch Part)	26,582	26,858	11,286	-58.0%	(15,572)
Saint Barthelemy	5,280	5,209	2,713	-47.9%	(2,496)
Haiti	17,037	16,963	9,677	-43.0%	(7,286)
Cayman Islands	23,651	27,510	15,979	-41.9%	(11,531)
Dominican Republic	171,833	175,029	107,555	-38.6%	(67,474)
St Vincent and the Grenadines	3,875	3,875	2,561	-33.9%	(1,314)
Curacao	19,110	20,067	13,387	-33.3%	(6,680)
Jamaica	93,013	94,560	64,472	-31.8%	(30,088)
Bonaire, Saint Eustatius and Saba	7,593	8,217	5,921	-27.9%	(2,296)
Montserrat, Leeward Islands	166	204	147	-27.9%	(57)
Saint Lucia	17,677	18,024	13,157	-27.0%	(4,867)
Cuba	131,312	130,263	95,928	-26.4%	(34,335)
Saint Martin	3,143	2,701	2,331	-13.7%	(370)
Barbados	36,573	33,460	29,474	-11.9%	(3,986)
Martinique	28,570	25,589	22,683	-11.4%	(2,906)
Saint Kitts and Nevis, Leeward Islands	6,275	6,315	5,604	-11.3%	(711)
Grenada, Windward Islands	7,168	6,844	6,095	-10.9%	(749)
Virgin Islands, British	8,103	7,906	7,113	-10.0%	(793)
Trinidad and Tobago	56,647	49,128	44,591	-9.2%	(4,537)
Turks and Caicos Islands	21,537	22,416	20,375	-9.1%	(2,041)
Guadeloupe	34,681	33,821	30,782	-9.0%	(3,039)
Bahamas	86,877	88,684	80,823	-8.9%	(7,861)
Antigua and Barbuda, Leeward Islands	16,841	16,752	15,359	-8.3%	(1,393)
Puerto Rico	132,458	143,022	134,724	-5.8%	(8,298)
Virgin Islands, US	28,999	29,718	29,200	-1.7%	(518)
Anguilla, Leeward Islands	945	950	950	0.0%	-
Dominica	2,992	2,992	3,136	4.8%	144
Grand Total	1,029,446	1,039,055	792,343	-23.7%	(246,712)

Looking forward into April the situation will get worse with further significant suspensions of service coming into effect.

Globally, Western Europe saw the biggest percentage decline in the number of seats, falling by 52.9% between March 16th and March 23rd while Upper South America saw a 42.1% drop so the Caribbean falls roughly in the middle of world regions in terms of percentage declines.

Source OAG
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