In our way to Curacao, we made a short stop in St. Maarten (SMX).
Some passenger disembarked and some passengers joined us there. We were not allowed to leave the aircraft at SXM.

This trip report covers the short 912 km long flight between St. Maarten and Curacao over the Caribbean Sea.


Some metadata about the flight:

Flight: TUI Airlines Nederland OR 393 (Arkefly)
Departure from: Princess Juliana International Airport, St. Maarten, SXM, Kingdom of the Netherlands
Take-off from: Runway 10, length 2,300 m / 7,546 ft
Arrival: Hato International Airport, CUR, Curaçao
Landing on: Runway 11; length 3,410 m / 11,188 ft
Distance: 561 miles / 912 km
Duration: 1 hours and 32 minutes
Passenger load: approx. 70%
Travel Class: Premium Comfort Class
Seat: 04A
Pitch: 37 inches
Width: 18 inches
Plane: Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner
Registration: PH-TFM
Delivered to ArkeFly: March 2015
Engines: 2 x General Electric GEnx-1B-64
Take-Off Thrust: 67,500 lb each


Here is the video:




At Gate at Princess Juliana International Airport:





Our seats in TUI Premium Comfort class, which comes with a 37 inch pitch:








American Airlines at SXM:





PAWA Dominicana MD-83 at SMX:





Taxiing towards SXM Runway 10:









American Boeing 737-800 has just landed on Runway 10 at SXM:







Taxiing to the Runway edge, where the plane will reverse the directiom:





Taking off from the 2,300m long Runway 10:







Sharp turn towards the south right after take-off:







Saba island:





Inflight, looking at the starboard General Electric GEnx-1B-64 engine:









Engine on the right side:





Wing on the right side:





Wing on the left side:








Economy cabin:





IFE system:





Playing with the dimming feature:





Getting closer to Curacao island:





Curacao is covered by clouds:





Approaching the desert island and lining up for Runway 11:





KLM Boeing 747-400 at Curacao:





Taxiing to the gate:





It is difficult to get a decent shot of the plane:





Photos from my archive of the TUI Dreamliner:





American Boeing 737-800 in old livery at Curacao:





Small Curacao Hato International Airport:





Here is the video:







All my trip reports on FT:

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Finnair Airbus A350-900 Helsinki - Shanghai in Y+

Finnair Airbus A350-900 Hong Kong - Helsinki in Y+

Singapore Airlines Airbus A380-800 Singapore - New Delhi in Upper Deck Y

British Airways Airbus A380-800 Singapore - London Heathrow in Y



Boeing:

Asiana Boeing 747-400 Combi Tokyo - Seoul in F

Air Canada Rouge Boeing 767-300ER Montreal - Cancun in Y+

Air Canada Rouge Boeing 767-300ER Cancun - Toronto in Y

United Boeing 777-200ER Houston - Newark - Amsterdam in C

United Boeing 777-200ER Amsterdam - Houston in Y+

United Boeing 777-200ER Singapore - Hongkong in C

British Airways Boeing 777-300ER London - Shanghai in Y

ANA Boeing 777-300ER Singapore - Tokyo in C

Swiss Boeing 777-300ER Zurich - Hong Kong in Y

Singapore Airlines Boeing 777-300ER Hong Kong - Singapore in Y

TUI Airlines Nederland Boeing 787-8 Sint Maarten - Curacao in P

TUI Airlines Nederland Boeing 787-8 Curacao - Amsterdam in P

Air Canada Boeing 787-8 Toronto - London in Y

ANA Boeing 787-8 Shanghai Pudong - Tokyo Narita in C

United Boeing 787-9 Los Angeles - Houston in C



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French TGV High Speed Train: Barcelona - Paris in F

China High Speed Rail Guangzhou - Shanghai Hongqiao in Y

Swiss Railways Lötschberg Mountain Line Bern - Brig in F

Ukraine Railways Kiev - Budapest in Sleeper Cabin

Virgin Trains West Coast London - Glasgow in F



Lounges:

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Four OneWorld Lounges: HKG

TBIT Star Alliance Lounge: LAX



Enjoy!