Air Calédonie
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| IATA code : | TY |
| ICAO code : | TPC |
| Call sign : | AIRCAL |
| Founding: | 1954 (as Transpac Airlines) |
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Nouméa , New Caledonia
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| Home airport : | Magenta Airport |
| IATA prefix code : | 190 |
| Management: | Samuel Hnepeune ( CEO ) |
| Fleet size: | 4th |
| Aims: | national |
| Website: | www.air-caledonie.nc |
Air Calédonie is a French airline based in Nouméa in New Caledonia and based at Magenta Airport .
history
Air Calédonie was founded on December 9, 1954 under the name Transpac Airlines , in which the local government held 76% of the shares. In 1968 the company then took on the name Air Calédonie. She used Cessna 310 and de Havilland Canada DHC-6 . In 1983 Air Calédonie carried 135,000 passengers.
In 1987 the fleet was renewed by four ATR 42s and a Dornier Do 228 , which made it possible to increase the number of passengers to over 180,000. A number of feeder flights for Air France and Qantas Airways are operated to the Nouméa base in New Caledonia .
Destinations
Air Calédonie flies to destinations within New Caledonia from Nouméa .
fleet
As of March 2020, the Air Calédonie fleet consists of four aircraft with an average age of 3.0 years and a total capacity of 272 seats:
| Aircraft type | number | ordered | Remarks | Seats |
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| ATR 72-600 | 4th | 68 | ||
| total | 4th | - |
See also
Web links
- Official website of Air Calédonie (French, English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b air-caledonie.nc - Presentation & fleet ( Memento from September 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (English), accessed on December 10, 2016
- ^ Air Calédonie Fleet Details and History. Retrieved March 13, 2020 .
