[3] It is the charter carrier of the Dutch arm of the German travel conglomerate TUI Group.
[4] TUI fly Netherlands traces its roots to Air Holland which was founded in 1981.
After financial problems, Air Holland was taken over by the ExelAviation Group and took a new start as HollandExel in January 2004.
[5] ArkeFly started weekly flights to St. Maarten from Amsterdam on 2 December 2007, but discontinued this service in November 2008.
TUI holds that flights may resume if the volume of tourists travelling to St. Maarten increases.