Bruce--I can't imagine that there are ANY airports where it would make sense for the airport to run a nonstop flight to SXM that are not already international airports. There are some pretty dinky airports that are international airports now.
As far as the stats, I think for cruise pax, the numbers are around 1.8 million per year, something like that. I honestly don't know at all what the current numbers are for air pax, but if they really mean 5 times the number of cruise pax, you would be talking approximately 10 million a year. Sounds like more of that 'funny math' that was in play for a while, when they were talking about Pearl of China. And if the government falls, and William Marlin happens to get back in somehow, guess Pearl will be back ON the table...
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