Asia Pacific Airlines (Papua New Guinea)

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Asia Pacific Airlines
Former De Havilland DHC-8-100 of Asia Pacific Airlines
IATA code : A6
ICAO code : MLP
Call sign : -
Founding: 1991
Seat: Tabubil , Papua New GuineaPapua New GuineaPapua New Guinea 
Home airport : Tabubil airport
Number of employees: 42
Fleet size: 3
Aims: National and international

Asia Pacific Airlines is a Papua New Guinea airline based in Tabubil and based at Tabubil Airport . It is a subsidiary of the Australian Cobham Aviation Services .

history

Asia Pacific Airlines was founded in 1991 as a subsidiary of the Australian National Jet Systems (now Cobham). In September 1993, the company put its first aircraft into service with a rented De Havilland DHC-8-100 , which was initially operated in wet lease for the airline MBA , which is also based in Papua New Guinea . After the leasing contracts ended, Asia Pacific Airlines changed its name to Fublian Air Transport in 1996 and started its own flight services. A second DHC-8-100 expanded the fleet in October 2000. In the same year the company took on the name Asia Pacific Airlines again . In April 2014, 42 people were working for Asia Pacific Airlines.

Destinations

Asia Pacific Airlines mainly operates domestic flights. The only international destination is Cairns Airport in Australia .

fleet

As of March 2020, the Asia Pacific Airlines fleet consists of three aircraft with an average age of 29.4 years:

Aircraft type number ordered Remarks Seats
De Havilland DHC-8-100 3
total 3 -

See also

Individual evidence

  1. JP airline-fleets international, Edition 95/96
  2. JP airline-fleets international, Edition 97/98
  3. JP airline-fleets international, Edition 2001/02
  4. ^ Asia Pacific Airlines Fleet Details and History. In: planespotters.net. Retrieved March 13, 2020 .
  5. Orders and deliveries. Retrieved August 7, 2019 .