It formerly served as a main base for ALM, KLM, DCA, DAE, Insel Air, and JetAir Caribbean.

Plesman, director of the Royal Dutch Airlines for the Netherlands and Colonies, had died a few days earlier.

Albert Plesman, director of KLM, said, "It will be unnecessary to set out in detail, of which it is of paramount importance, that the Dutch aviation industry gets a firm footing in the vicinity of the Caribbean sea, where air traffic is now becoming more and more a factor of economic significance."

Curaçao was developing itself in a beneficial way due to the presence of the oil refinery, and a growing number of people were starting to choose the region with the purpose of vacationing.

Aviation companies were paying close attention to these developments and were researching if it was possible to create a connection between the United States, Curaçao and South America.

The CAP is a consortium of Zürich Airport (Switzerland), Janssen de Jong[2] (the Netherlands) and CCR (Brazil).

A dedicated terminal or Jet Centre was opened to efficiently handle VIPS and artists at large events, and to be ready for even more private passengers in the future.

[7] Located at the west side of Hato Airport are hangars for the two Bombardier Dash 8 Maritime Patrol Aircraft and two AgustaWestland AW139 helicopters of the Dutch Caribbean Coast Guard.