Samoa Airlines

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Samoa Airlines
IATA code : (without)
ICAO code : MB
Call sign : (unknown)
Founding: 1982
Operation stopped: 1985
Seat: Honolulu , Hawaii United States
United StatesUnited States 
Home airport : Honolulu International Airport
Fleet size: 1
Aims: American Samoa
Samoa Airlines ceased operations in 1985. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation.

Samoa Airlines (brand carrier Samoa Air ) was in Honolulu -based airline , exclusively from Honolulu International Airport outbound charter flights to Pago Pago International Airport in American Samoa has conducted.

history

Samoa Airlines was founded in early 1982 in Honolulu founded and rented a Boeing 707-300C ( license plate : N707PD) of Arrow Air in wetlease that on the route between Honolulu (from May 1982 Hawaii ) and Pago Pago ( American Samoa came) used. Shortly thereafter, the company ran into financial difficulties for the first time, so that Arrow Air initially continued to operate the connection independently from October 1982.

In August 1984 Samoa Airlines resumed charter flights between Honolulu and Pago Pago, for which they used a Boeing 707-300C of the Philippine Aero Filipinas (RP-C1886) in wet lease. On 16 July 1985, the company applied for bankruptcy protection after the Chapter 11 of the US Bankruptcy Code and placed parallel to its flight operations completely ceases. The company's liquidation began on May 14, 1986 and was completed on February 12, 1987.

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See also

Individual evidence

  1. JP airline-fleets international, Edition 85
  2. Aerotransport Data Bank, Samoa Airlines (in English), accessed April 6, 2018
  3. Rzjets, Boeing 707-347C, N707PD (in English), accessed on April 6, 2018
  4. Flight International, October 16, 1982 (in English), accessed April 6, 2018
  5. Rzjets, Boeing 707-351 (C), RP-C1886 (in English), accessed April 6, 2018
  6. United States Bankruptcy Court, D. Hawaii, Bankruptcy No. 85-00326, Samoa Airlines Inc., February 12, 1987 (in English), accessed April 6, 2018