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History

Set up soon after Aruba's separation from the Netherlands Antilles, Air Aruba became a major competitor of Air ALM, offering DC-9 jet flights through the Caribbean and to Miami International Airport. Air ALM de Havilland Dash 8-300, registration number PJ-DHI, at Luis Munoz Marin Airport, San Juan, Puerto Rico, in April 1999 Air ALM was an airline from the Netherlands Antilles, flying out of Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao. ... The Douglas DC-9 is a twin-engined jet airliner, first manufactured in 1965 and, in much modified form and under a succession of different names, still in production today as the Boeing 717. ... ... Miami International Airport (IATA: MIA, ICAO: KMIA), is located in unincorporated Miami, Florida between the suburbs of Hialeah, Doral, Fontainbleau, and Miami Springs. ...

The rising cost of operations and bad management caused Air Aruba to stop flying in 2000. This article is about the year 2000. ...

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Categories: Airlines of Aruba | Defunct airlines | Aruba

Results from FactBites:

Air ALM - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (546 words)
	Political changes such as the independence of Aruba affected the airline: not only did they have to decrease their frequencies from the new country, but they also faced new competition in the shape of Air Aruba, another DC-9 operator that had a large share of passengers on Caribbean routes for many years.
	It is ironic that Air ALM went into direct competition with their creators at KLM during their later years, offering flights to Amsterdam with a partner airline.
	Air ALM was replaced with an all-new operation, Dutch Caribbean Airlines, but it ceased operating in October 2004.

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