St Barth Executive, based at Remi De Haenen airport in St Barthélémy, has added two Pilatus PC-12 NGs to its fleet in the past year, and sales and marketing director Lucile Reimonenq, who joined the company in December 2019, says that the aircraft have been performing well. Popular destinations include Antigua, San Juan (Puerto Rico), Princess Juliana International (Sint Maarten) and Pointe-à-Pitre International (Guadeloupe). “During the virus outbreak, we have worked a lot on two missions: medical evacuations, and transferring seasonal hospitality workers from St Barthélémy airport to Pointe-à-Pitre for connections to Paris,” Reimonenq explains. “Then we started to transfer many European people from Antigua to Pointe-à-Pitre for connections to Paris, and then to their hometown in Europe. The border at St Barts has reopened and we are working a lot with American citizens landing in San Juan and Europeans landing in Antigua.

“Things are still not back to normal because of a heavy amount of paperwork to get authorisation to fly.”

The operator has also been flying passengers from Haiti to Pointe-à-Pitre, mainly for business purposes.