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Avianca Increases Airlift To Aruba Now Daily Flights To Bogotá

Aruba Airport Authority (AAA) in a joint effort with Avianca, our strongest Latin American Airline partner, is very pleased to announce that as of July 1st, 2006 Avianca will increase their 5 weekly flights from Bogotá to Aruba to daily. This will not only offer better service between Bogotá and Aruba but will also increase connections from Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador and Panama to Aruba via Bogotá. The Aruba Tourism Authority’s Office in Colombia has been doing tremendous PR and Marketing in support of the increase in flights and just completed an intensive road show in Colombia together with Avianca and members of AHATA.

In addition, Avianca will also launch twice weekly service from Medellin via Baranquilla to Aruba on Wednesdays and Sundays as of June 18, 2006. The flights will be operated by SAM, an Avianca company, with Fokker-100 aircrafts. At present Aires operates twice weekly service from Baranquilla to Aruba on Thursday and Sundays, with the addition of Avianca flights there will be service four times a week and expanding the connection opportunities via Baranquilla to coastal regions.

Latin America has shown the greatest growth in Load Factor (aircraft occupancy) from 2005 in comparison to 2004 of 11%. The North American market remained flat at 74%, the charter market grew by 4%, and the European market grew by 7%. The AAA remains focused on enhancing Aruba’s air routes towards the demand and needs of the market.

We are delighted to have increased our frequencies to Colombia with our trusted and loyal airline partner, Avianca due to a mutual vision regarding the meeting of the demand and need for additional airlift towards the destination not only from Colombia but other Latin American regions”, a very satisfied Peter Steinmetz, Managing Director of the Aruba Airport Authority N.V. stated