{"id":3729,"date":"2018-02-23T11:15:23","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T16:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/?p=3729"},"modified":"2022-09-26T09:39:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T13:39:13","slug":"curacao-overflights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/curacao-overflights\/","title":{"rendered":"No entry to Curacao FIR unless you prepay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Jan 2018, Curacao began denying non-IATA members permission to overfly the TNCF\/Curacao FIR if they have not prepaid for navigation fees. Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/CURACAO-AIC-2017_30.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AIC<\/a> that carries the announcement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Essentially, that means you, if you&#8217;re not an airline.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Several OPSGROUP members have since reported being denied airspace entry. Given that a lot of north-south traffic tends to use the TNCF FIR for overflights, this is important information for ad-hoc flights.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re not an IATA member, you&#8217;ll want to head to <a href=\"https:\/\/dc-ansp.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/dc-ansp.org\/<\/a>\u00a0get a login, and make your prepayments based on your planned route. If you don&#8217;t create an account, or don&#8217;t prepay, they&#8217;ll likely reject your flight through the FIR.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like a breakdown of the charges, you can find those in the <a href=\"http:\/\/dc-ansp.org\/eAIS\/eAIP-Publications\/history-en-GB.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dutch Caribbean eAIP<\/a>, Gen 4.2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Jan 2018, Curacao began denying non-IATA members permission to overfly the TNCF\/Curacao FIR if&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":3767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319],"tags":[1068,1069,559,1149],"class_list":{"0":"post-3729","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news-item","8":"tag-aruba","9":"tag-bonaire","10":"tag-curacao","11":"tag-tncf"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3729"}],"version-history":[{"count":46,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19942,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729\/revisions\/19942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}