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n the past four years there has been an enormous shipbuilding boom. In 2011 there will be 12 new cruise ships being delivered, so the fl eet is expanding and cruise lines are looking for new places to position these ships. They are looking at Europe, Latin America and Asia. For airlines, if cruises are not part of your planning cycle they absolutely should be because the cruise vacation is the fastest growing tourism segment in the world. I listened to the TAM Airline Briefi ng here and they are clearly preparing for the Olympics and the World Cup, but they made no reference to the cruise industry. In Latin America in the past fi ve years cruise passenger numbers have increased from 500,000 to 1.2 million, with a large proportion from Brazil. Brazil is a new cruise ground and an awful lot of those passengers are fl ying in from Europe and North America.”
Michael Kazakoff, vice president, Cruise Shipping Miami
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e are meeting with the partners we already have because we would like to expand some routes. For instance JetBlue, which fl ies from Boston and New York, but we would also like fl ights from San Juan, which is a very important tourism market for Punta Cana, and also Orlando. We are pushing American Airlines to see if we can have a direct fl ight from Dallas. We would like to cover that part of the United States which we are not connected to now. There are also a couple of smaller airlines in the English-speaking Caribbean that would like to fl y to Punta Cana. We are also trying to improve our cargo operations and take advantage of the empty bellies because the tourists don’t bring a lot of luggage. There is a lot of demand for our products in the United States and Europe – for vegetables, fruit, cigars, shrimp and fl owers.”
Alberto Smith, director of operations, Aeropuerto International Punta Cana
he aviation landscape in Jamaica is very interesting. What we have seen is a very interesting programme enunciated by Caribbean Airways, which will see a number of routes being restored, in particular Heathrow will again be connected to Montego Bay. We do have challenges with some of our existing airline partners with the issue of route yields and the demand for a greater level of partnership. We recognise that there are diffi culties – fuel prices are going up and we have seen British Airways adding additional surcharges. Locally in the Caribbean we have seen American Airlines and a number of other airlines adding baggage charges. We are committed to building partnerships with our airline partners – connectivity is everything.”
Edmund Bartlett, minister of tourism for Jamaica
Winning streak D
North Americas Region Winner: Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, USA
Highly Commended:
Edmonton International Airport, Canada Las Vegas-McCarran International Airport, USA Shortlisted airports:
Pittsburgh International Airport , USA Cancun International Airport, Mexico
South, Central and the Caribbean Region Winner: Princess Juliana International Airport, St Maarten
Highly Commended: Queen Beatrix International Airport, Aruba and Tocumen International Airport, Panama Shortlisted airports:
Montego Bay – Sangster International Airport, Jamaica Jorge Chavez International Airport, Lima
From left: Victoria Jones, scheduling manager, Routes, Peter von Molkte, CEO of UBM Aviation with Regina Labega, director of tourism, St Maarten’s Tourist Bureau, Frankie Meyers, minister of tourism, St Maarten’s Tourist Bureau, Larry Donker, interim managing director, Princess Juliana Airport.
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allas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) was again named the overall winner of the Americas regional heat of the Routes Airport Marketing Awards and has been automatically shortlisted for the World Routes Awards, which will be awarded in Berlin on October 2.
From left: Peter von Molkte, CEO of UBM Aviation congratulates the DFW team – Mitzi Chollampel, trade marketing manager; Luis Perez, VP of air service development and Chris Minner, assistant vice president of air service development.
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