Delta Air Lines Launches Flights to Curacao for the First Time

After 13 years of not serving Curaçao, Delta is returning to the Caribbean destination, which has been steadily resurging in popularity.

The airline recently announced that flights to the island will begin again later this year, according to a statement on its website.

The first flight to Curacao will take off on December 16 from the carrier’s Atlanta hub at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. With the newly resumed offering, Delta will be the only airline providing direct flights between Atlanta and Curacao.

The route is to be offered once each week on Saturdays only. Delta will fly a 160-seat Boeing 737-800 aircraft to Curacao and the new flights will be available to book as of this Sunday, July 16.

The last time Delta served Curacao was back in 2007. It flew the route for three years on a similar, once-per-week schedule.

Beyond Curacao, the airline says it will provide significant increased capacity to the Caribbean this winter. It plans to fly nearly 500 weekly flights to 44 Latin destinations during the winter months, which amounts to a 30 percent surge in capacity as compared to 2022.

Some of the additional Caribbean destinations served by Delta include Aruba and St. Thomas. Delta also recently introduced routes to Cozumel, Mexico, and Cartagena, Colombia.

A Dutch Caribbean island, Curacao is known for its its many coral reefs and pastel-colored colonial architecture in the capital city of Willemstad.

Curaçao Tourist Board (CTB) officials report the southern Caribbean country hosted 489,558 overnight, land-based visitors in 2022, breaking the record of 467,538 overnight visitors established in 2015.

Delta is certainly not the first airline to announce service to the Dutch Caribbean nation in recent months. The island’s surging popularity with vacationers has prompted an increase in air lift to the country. Earlier this month, the island’s tourism board announced that American Airlines will launch daily flights to Curaçao from North Carolina’s Charlotte Douglas International Airport beginning in December.