Mid Pacific Air

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Mid Pacific Air
IATA code : HO
ICAO code : MPA
Call sign : MIDPAC
Founding: 1981
Operation stopped: 1995
Seat: Honolulu and Indianapolis
Turnstile :

Honolulu International Airport and Indianapolis International Airport

Home airport : Honolulu International Airport and Indianapolis International Airport
Fleet size: 5
Aims: Kauai, O'ahu, Maui, Hawaii, Honolulu, Indianapolis, Las Vegas, New York, Pago Pago, Burbank, Fresno, San Jose
Mid Pacific Air ceased operations in 1995. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation.
Mid Pacific Air Fokker F28-4000
Mid Pacific Air NAMC YS-11A-659

Mid Pacific Air was a regional low-cost airline that began passenger flights in Hawaii . The first routes after the establishment in 1981 connected the islands of Kauai , O'ahu , Maui and Hawaii. The airline's main competitors were the established airlines Hawaiian Airlines and Aloha Airlines . When operations began in the Midwest , the airline relocated to Indianapolis International Airport in Indianapolis , Indiana . Originally it was based at Honolulu International Airport.

history

Unlike Hawaiian and Aloha 's fleet of Mid Pacific Air consisted mainly of NAMC YS-11 Turbroprop - aircraft ; Hawaiian and Aloha flew with jet aircraft of the types Douglas DC-9 (Hawaiian) and Boeing 737 (Aloha) on the same routes. In October 1982, the airline planned to lease a Boeing 707 from Arrow Air under the Mid Pacific Arrow brand to continue the flights previously operated by Samoa Airlines between Honolulu and Pago Pago ( American Samoa ), but received no approval. In February 1985, the airline flew the first time in the southwest of the United States , where they cost flights from Las Vegas , Nevada and the Grand Canyon to Burbank and Orange County , California offering. It also served the route between Orange County and Fresno , California. A Fokker F28 Fellowship was added to the Mid Pacific fleet in 1985. In the same year, Mid Pacific leased four of their YS-11s to Fort Worth Airlines in Texas . In January 1986 the airline was sold to KOA Holdings and shortly thereafter the F28 jets were taken out of service.

Although Mid Pacific was able to lure customers with cheap deals and promotions that made up for the slower and louder aircraft, the airline could not compete with Hawaiian and Aloha and ceased passenger operations in Hawaii on January 19, 1988; cargo operations ceased a month later.

After flight operations in Hawaii ended, Mid Pacific continued its YS-11 cargo operations in the American Midwest, based in Lafayette, Indiana , and operated shuttle services through a code-sharing agreement with Reno Air under the 1990s Name Reno Air Express with British Aerospace Jetstream 31 turboprop aircraft. These Reno Air Express flights were operated from San Jose International Airport in Northern California . In 1992 and 1993 the airline flew a British Aerospace BAe 146 cargo flights on behalf of TNT between New York City and Bermuda . The airline ceased operations in 1995.

Mid Pacifics destinations 1986

Hawaii

According to the system route map of January 15, 1986, Mid Pacific flew to the following destinations in Hawaii with Fokker F28 Fellowship Twin Jets and NAMC YS-11 Turboprops:

California & Nevada

According to the system route map of January 15, 1986, Mid Pacific flew to the following destinations in Hawaii with NAMC YS-11 turboprops:

Destinations of the Reno Air Express 1995

According to the January 3, 1995 system route map, the Mid Pacific served the following California and Oregon destinations with British Aerospace BAe Jetstream 31 Propjets on behalf of Reno Air Express through a code-sharing agreement with Reno Air:

fleet

Incidents

From 1981 until the cessation of operations in 1995, Mid Pacific Airlines suffered two total write-offs of aircraft, in both cases NAMC YS-11A. One of them killed two people.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "World Airline Directory." Flight International . March 23-29, 1994. 106 - 108 .
  2. ^ "World Airline Directory." Flight International . May 16, 1981. 1452 . "Head Office: Honolulu International Airport, Hawaii, USA."
  3. ^ "World Airline Directory." Flight International . April 3, 1982. 852 . "550 Palea Street, Honolulu, Hawaii 96820, USA."
  4. ↑ Flight International, October 16, 1982 (in English), accessed April 2, 2019
  5. ↑ Lehia Apana: Memories of Mid Pacific taking flight . In: The Maui News , February 5, 2007. Archived from the original on February 10, 2007. 
  6. ↑ http://www.departedflights.com , Jan. 15, 1986 Mid Pacific Air system route map
  7. ↑ http://www.departedflights.com , Jan. 15, 1986 Mid Pacific Air system route map
  8. ↑ http://www.departedflights.com , Jan. 3, 1995 Reno Air Express system route map
  9. ↑ Accident statistics Mid Pacific Airlines , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on July 26, 2020.