🌍 43.4% of Barbados’s International Business Jet Arrivals Came from Nearby Islands
Among international business jet arrivals at Grantley Adams International Airport (TBPB) in Barbados, the largest share had departed on their previous leg from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Avi-Go data show that from July 1, 2026, to September 29, 2026, TBPB recorded 580 business jet landings from airports outside Barbados. Of these, 252 had departed from airports in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, accounting for 43.4%; 81 came from the United States, 41 from Puerto Rico, 30 from Brazil, and 21 from the Dominican Republic. These top five departure countries and territories accounted for 425 landings in total. The figures include flights whose departure airport was outside Barbados, count each landing at TBPB as one arrival, and list Puerto Rico separately as a territory. This distribution describes the origins of arriving aircraft’s previous flight legs, not passengers’ nationalities or the starting points of their overall journeys.
Impact: The 252 arrivals from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to TBPB give local brokers and ground handlers a more targeted basis for cross-border coordination. Rather than handling all 580 international arrivals in the same way, distinguishing flights by their previous departure country or territory when preparing flight information, identifying contacts, and handing over pre-arrival information better reflects the recorded arrival mix. Arrivals from the United States and Puerto Rico also require their respective handover information to be maintained separately.
Recommendation: TBPB brokers and ground handlers can add “country or territory of the previous departure airport” to their arrival-handling checklist. They can first review routine contacts and document-handover procedures for flights from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, which accounted for 252 arrivals, then organize information separately for the 81 arrivals from the United States and the 41 from Puerto Rico. When communicating about passenger origins, they should avoid presenting the previous leg’s departure point as the passengers’ place of origin.