AUA Aruba

How deep the AUA board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from AUA. This reads the same 26 destinations back for the questions a dispatcher asks second: how much of the board rests on one airline, how much of it runs less than daily, whether the return leg is as thick as the outbound and what the clock here does to a Gulf working day, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.

• 20of the 26 destinations are flown by one airline
• 11destinations run less than once a day
• 2destinations have four or more departures a day
• 15.4%of the destinations name Delta Air Lines, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at AUA

21 airlines appear on the AUA board and they do not hold it evenly. Delta Air Lines is on 4 of the 26 destinations, 15.4 per cent of them, and on 2 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 9.1 of the 45.1 departures a day this airport files, though other airlines fly some of the same sectors, so read that as reach rather than as a share of the aircraft.

The next largest presence is Copa Airlines Colombia on 4 destinations. 14 of the 21 airlines at AUA appear on a single destination each, which is the long tail every airport carries, and none of it is a rebooking option when the sector you need is the one that fell over.

No airline holds more than 15.4 per cent of the destinations here, which is the more comfortable shape of the two. A cancellation at a spread airport is usually a rebooking rather than a lost day, provided the sector itself carries more than one operator, and 20 of the 26 sectors at AUA do not.

How much of the AUA board is daily

Of the 26 destinations, 15 are flown at least once a day and 11 are not, 3 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the AUA board is flown about once a day.

An average of 0.14 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: AUA to Tallahassee (TLH) is about one a week, so a missed departure there is not a delay of hours, it is the next slot.

The five busiest destinations carry 27 of the 45.1 departures a day, 59.8 per cent of the whole board. More than half of everything that leaves AUA is aimed at those five places, so the depth on the board above is thinner than the destination count suggests, and a hand carry that is not going to one of them is planned around a single departure time.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Dallas-Fort Worth DFW	the United States	American Airlines	1	3,561	plan this
Fort Lauderdale FXE	the United States	Hex'Air	1	1,857	plan this
Tallahassee TLH	the United States	Delta Air Lines	1	2,476	plan this
Chicago ORD	the United States	United Airlines	2	3,707	plan this
São Paulo GRU	Brazil	Gol	2	4,746	plan this
Baltimore BWI	the United States	Southwest Airlines	3	3,038	plan this
Barranquilla BAQ	Colombia	Copa Airlines Colombia	3	549	plan this
Santiago de Cali CLO	Colombia	Copa Airlines Colombia	3	1,218	plan this
Washington IAD	the United States	United Airlines	3	3,031	plan this
Rionegro MDE	Colombia	Copa Airlines Colombia	4	921	plan this

The ten destinations out of AUA where one airline holds the sector and files fewer than seven departures a week, with the weekly figure taken as the average daily rate multiplied by seven rather than as a fixed timetable. 1 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from AUA

The desk holds the return direction for 22 of the 26 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On one of them the return into AUA runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gap is Chicago (ORD) at 0.29 out a day against 0.14 back.

A return leg thinner than the outbound is the ordinary reason a same day round trip out of AUA turns into an overnight, and it is worth checking on each of those 1 sectors before the courier is committed rather than after.

The clock at AUA

AUA keeps America/Aruba time, eight hours behind Dubai all year.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 01:00 at AUA, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for an hour. That is a narrow window for a signature, a customs query or an authority to release, and it is the reason a consignment for AUA is briefed the day before rather than on the morning it flies.

Where AUA turns up on the rest of this site

The airport also sits behind the Aruba country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport.

The site publishes 1 airport pair page that start or end at AUA, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Aruba to Bogotá (BOG).

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with AUA already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 26 destinations above.