Maya Island Air

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Maya Island Air
Maya Island Air, Dangriga Airport, Belize
IATA code : MY
ICAO code : MYD
Call sign : MYLAND
Founding: 1997
Seat: Belize City , BelizeBelizeBelize 
Home airport : Belize City Airport
Management: Guillin Bissat ( CEO )
Fleet size: 13
Aims: regional
Website: www.mayaislandair.com

Maya Iceland Air is a regional airline from Belize , located in Belize City . It was created in December 1997 from the merger of the two companies Maya Airways and Island Air .

history

Maya Airways was founded by private investors in Belize City in 1961 after British Honduras Airways , a subsidiary of the state-owned British West Indies Airways , ceased operations. Operations started in the following year. In the 1970s, the company used, among others, Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander and Cessna 206 in national scheduled services and on charter flights .

Maya Airways and the San Pedro- based air taxi company Island Air merged in December 1997 to form the new company Maya Island Air . As of April 2018, the company is flying to twelve domestic destinations as planned and also operates international charter flights to Guatemala and Honduras .

fleet

As of April 2018, the company's fleet consists of three Britten-Norman BN-2 Islanders , one Cessna 182 , eight Cessna 208 and one Gippsland GA-8 .

See also

Web links

Commons : Maya Island Air  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. Flight International, April 22, 1978 (in English), accessed April 8, 2018
  2. Flight International, March 31, 1998 (in English), accessed April 8, 2018
  3. JP airline-fleets international, Edition 98/99
  4. Maya Island Air, Route Map 2018 (in English), accessed April 8, 2018
  5. Maya Island Air, Our Planes , accessed April 8, 2018