Watch the economy land.

Sint Maarten earns its living by air and by sea. This is the island right now: real aircraft on approach to Princess Juliana and the cruise calls at Philipsburg.

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Imagery: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX (CC BY 4.0, modified Copernicus data) · Terrain: AWS Terrain Tiles · Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors

Assumptions

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Every figure across all three modes recomputes live. Estimates are never presented as facts — each headline number carries its band.

Load factor80%

50%Default (summer basis) 80%100%

modeled from IATA regional data. IATA global passenger load factor set a record 83.5% for full-year 2024; US majors on Caribbean/domestic leisure routes typically run ~83-86%. SXM winter (Dec-Apr) is high season and summer (esp. Sep-Oct, and softer Jun-Aug) is low season, so July flights arrive fuller than shoulder months but below peak-winter; a ~4-6 point haircut vs annual is a reasonable July estimate. No SXM route-specific published load factor was found; treat both values as estimates.

Spend multiplier1.00×

0.50×Default 1.00× (per-stay by origin)1.50×

solid for per-night by origin and overall length of stay (STAT Tourism Exit Survey 2023, primary source); per-stay totals are derived/modeled because per-origin length of stay is not fully published

Cash share35%

10%Default 35% of spend as cash60%

Assumption for cash pre-positioning signal; tune to your market read. No single published SXM cash-share figure.