AUA
Queen Beatrix International Airport
Queen Beatrix International Airport (IATA: AUA, ICAO: TNCA) is a large airport in Oranjestad, Aruba. It opened in 1935. It has one runway, 2,743 m (9,000 ft) long, asphalt. In 2019 it handled 1.3 million passengers.
Timeline
1 event · 1935–19351935
OpenedQueen Beatrix International Airport opens.
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026
Runways & airfield
Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap11/29104° / 284° · LIT
LENGTH2,743 m9,000 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt
Passengers per year
2014–20192.5M
2.9M
2.6M
2.5M
2.5M
1.3M
141516171819
Routes
36 destinations · 12 countriesYear-round27
CURHato International AirportCuraçao · Surinam Airways, Winair, Divi Divi Air +1120 km75 miBONFlamingo International AirportCaribbean Netherlands · KLM, Z Air194 km121 miBAQErnesto Cortissoz International AirportColombia · Wingo549 km341 miSDQLas Américas International AirportDominican Republic · Arajet660 km410 miJBQLa Isabela International AirportDominican Republic · Air Century675 km419 miMDEJose Maria Córdova International AirportColombia · Wingo921 km572 miSXMPrincess Juliana International AirportSint Maarten · Winair963 km598 miBOGEl Dorado International AirportColombia · Avianca Ecuador, Wingo, Avianca979 km608 miPTYTocumen International AirportPanama · Copa Airlines1,092 km679 miPBMJohan Adolf Pengel International AirportSuriname · Surinam Airways1,806 km1,122 miMIAMiami International AirportUnited States · American Airlines1,828 km1,136 miFLLFort Lauderdale Hollywood International AirportUnited States · JetBlue Airways1,844 km1,146 miMCOOrlando International AirportUnited States · Southwest Airlines2,123 km1,319 miCLTCharlotte Douglas International AirportUnited States · American Airlines2,754 km1,711 miATLHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International AirportUnited States · Delta Air Lines2,767 km1,719 miLIMJorge Chávez International AirportPeru · LATAM Airlines Peru2,837 km1,763 miIADWashington Dulles International AirportUnited States · United Airlines3,031 km1,883 miBWIBaltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall AirportUnited States · Southwest Airlines3,038 km1,888 miPHLPhiladelphia International AirportUnited States · American Airlines3,086 km1,918 miJFKJohn F. Kennedy International AirportUnited States · JetBlue Airways, Delta Air Lines3,150 km1,957 miEWRNewark Liberty International AirportUnited States · United Airlines3,161 km1,964 miIAHGeorge Bush Intercontinental AirportUnited States · United Airlines3,252 km2,021 miBOSBoston Logan International AirportUnited States · JetBlue Airways3,322 km2,064 miYYZToronto Pearson International AirportCanada · WestJet, Air Canada Rouge3,587 km2,229 miORDChicago O'Hare International AirportUnited States · United Airlines3,707 km2,303 miGRUSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International AirportBrazil · Gol Transportes Aéreos4,746 km2,949 miAMSAmsterdam Airport SchipholNetherlands · KLM, TUI fly Netherlands7,878 km4,895 miSeasonal13
BGAPalonegro AirportColombia · Wingo691 km429 miBOGEl Dorado International AirportColombia · LATAM Airlines Colombia979 km608 miCLOAlfonso Bonilla Aragon International AirportColombia · Wingo1,218 km757 miBNANashville International AirportUnited States · Southwest Airlines3,112 km1,934 miLGALaGuardia AirportUnited States · American Airlines3,167 km1,968 miBOSBoston Logan International AirportUnited States · Delta Air Lines3,322 km2,064 miDTWDetroit Metropolitan Wayne County AirportUnited States · Delta Air Lines3,547 km2,204 miDFWDallas Fort Worth International AirportUnited States · American Airlines3,561 km2,213 miYYZToronto Pearson International AirportCanada · Porter Airlines3,587 km2,229 miYULMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International AirportCanada · Air Canada, Air Transat3,683 km2,289 miYOWOttawa Macdonald-Cartier International AirportCanada · Porter Airlines3,689 km2,292 miORDChicago O'Hare International AirportUnited States · American Airlines3,707 km2,303 miMSPMinneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport / Wold–Chamberlain FieldUnited States · Delta Air Lines, Sun Country Airlines4,220 km2,622 miMost destinationsAmerican Airlines 6Wingo 5Delta Air Lines 5United Airlines 4JetBlue Airways 3Southwest Airlines 3
Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from AUA. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Queen Beatrix International Airport” (revision of 23 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Records & rankings
Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · countryScale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record
Radio frequencies
5 channelsATISATIS132.100
GNDGND121.900
MISCSEARCH AND RESCUE123.100
RMPBEATRIX APRON121.600
TWRBEATRIX TWR120.900