Airspace Bonaire (partially) reopened!

10 June 2020 by Sunwise Bonaire - Reading time: < 1 minute

Governor Rijna announced today, among other things, that the airspace of Bonaire will be (partly) reopened!

Emergency measures further reduced

Governor Rijna of Bonaire announced today that the emergency measures that were previously implemented to curtail the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic will be phased out.

For example, the airspace of Bonaire will be reopened to passenger air traffic, which means that tourists can come to our island again! Tourists from the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany and France will be able to come over and enjoy a holiday on our island again, with a maximum of 1000 tourists per week!
One condition for entering Bonaire is that a negative Covid test, no older than 72 hours before departure, can be submitted, but any form of quarantine won’t be required anymore!

Hopefully the United States will follow later!

Unfortunately, Bonaire remains closed for now for the airline hubs in North America, because RIVM (the Dutch equivalent of the American CDC) still sees in particular the USA as a high-risk country. So we will have to wait a little longer before we can greet our valued, loyal guests from America here again 🙁

Keep an eye on the updates about this and other things, on our blog!

6 responses to "Airspace Bonaire (partially) reopened!"
  1. Yhanni says:

    If a person from another country in Europe wants to visit Bonaire. What is the procedure? Quarentene in Holland? Or prove of negative test?

    1. Hello Yhanni,

      We understand that for the time being only travelers from the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France and Germany are allowed on Bonaire, without any restrictions, except for the mandatory COVID-19 test.
      We do not yet know whether people with a different nationality cannot buy a KLM or TUI ticket, or that there will be a nationality check at Schiphol or even Bonaire!

      As soon as we know more, we will update our message!

  2. Hartmut Poluda says:

    Great, I’ve been waiting fot this since February.
    I’m flying in from Amsterdam as soon as I know as of what date this will happen.

    1. Hi Hartmut, on July 1st the airspace ban will be partially lifted, so from that day on (I assume you’re from Germany) you will be able to fly to Bonaire again.

  3. Erica says:

    And Italy???

    1. Hi Erica, from what we understand is that for now, only travelers from the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France and Germany are allowed on Bonaire. We’re not sure how they will see to it that only these nationalities will travel to our island. Maybe they won’t be able to buy a KLM or TUI ticket, or maybe there will be a nationality check at Schiphol or even Bonaire! The latter option obviously would not be right, as far as we’re concerned!

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