Carnival Air Lines

Carnival Air Lines was a charter and scheduled airline division of

Carnival Cruise Lines started in 1988 after Carnival Cruise Lines Carnival Air Lines
purchased Pacific Interstate Airlines. It was headquartered in Dania
Beach, Florida.[1][2]

IATA ICAO Callsign

Contents KW CAA Carnival Air

History Founded 1988

Fleet Ceased 1998
Destinations in 1993 operations

Routes in 1995 Hubs Fort Lauderdale-

Hollywood
Destinations in 1996
International Airport
See also Miami International
References Airport
External links Fleet size 25
Destinations Hartford, CT,
Worcester, MA,
History Newburgh, NY,
Islip, NY, White
The origins of Carnival Air Lines can be traced to 1984 when
Plains, NY, New
Pacific Interstate Airlines was founded in Las Vegas, Nevada. This
airline flew charters between Las Vegas and Los Angeles. In 1985 York, NY, Newark,
the name was changed to Pacific Inter Air and then only two years NJ, Los Angeles,
later the name was changed to Bahamas Express. By this time the Orlando, FL, West
airline was flying out of airports in the East Coast of the USA to Palm Beach, FL,
Freeport in the Bahamas. Carnival Cruise Lines bought the company Tampa, FL, Fort
in 1988 and the airline's name was once again changed to Fun Air, Lauderdale, FL, Fort
but no planes were painted with that name and cruise ship Myers, FL, Miami,
passengers were flown by Majestic Air using a Boeing 727-100 FL, Nassau,
jetliner.
Bahamas, Port-au-
The final identity of Carnival Air Lines came to being in 1989 and Prince, Haiti,
the airline began flying from Miami, the Northeast USA and later on Aguadilla, Puerto
expanded to other destinations. The home base for Carnival Air Rico, Ponce, Puerto
Lines was Ft. Lauderdale, Fl. (See routes below). Rico, San Juan,
Puerto Rico.
In 1992 Carnival Air Lines began a code-share agreement with
Iberia Airlines of Spain to transport connecting passengers from Parent Carnival Cruise
Madrid to Los Angeles via Carnival's Miami Hub. The route was company Lines
originally operated by a Boeing 737-400 but was replaced in 1994 Headquarters Dania Beach,
with Carnival's first Airbus A300. In 1993 Carnival began operating Florida
its first wide-body aircraft by flying LanChile's Boeing 767 as part
of the interchange agreement with the Chilean airline. The exclusive Key people Micky Arison
route was from Miami to New York's JFK airport. In 1995 when the agreement with LanChile was not
renewed, another agreement was formed with LADECO of Chile to transport connecting passengers from
Santiago to New York via Carnival's Miami Hub flying a Carnival Airbus A300 in LADECO's livery.

In September 1997, Pan Am Corp., a holding company formed by the reincarnated Pan American Airways
(1996–1998), bought Carnival Air Lines in an attempt to bolster its fleet and operations into a new airline
based on the old Pan Am. Before the airlines could fully merge, the holding company and its two
independently operated airlines, Pan Am and Carnival, filed for bankruptcy protection and ceased scheduled
flight operations in February 1998. The operating certificate used for the first reincarnated Pan Am was
abandoned in favor of the acquired Carnival operating certificate. Pan Am, now operating with the Carnival
certificate, quickly resumed limited charter operations while new owner Guilford Transportation Industries
of Massachusetts acquired certain assets of the bankrupt companies after court approval. The new company
emerged from bankruptcy in June 1998 and discontinued the use of the Carnival Brand name for the Pan
Am name and logo instead. Guilford ceased operating Pan Am and relinquished its original Carnival
airworthiness certificate on November 1, 2004. Operations were transferred to Boston-Maine Airways,
which resumed 727 service under the "Pan Am Clipper Connection" brand from February 17, 2005.

Its IATA code was reassigned to Wataniya Airways.

Fleet
This is an extract found regarding the Carnival Air Lines fleet:

Carnival Air Lines has grown to include approximately 1,350 employees and a fleet of 25 aircraft:

9 Airbus A300s
7 Boeing 727-200s
7 Boeing 737-400s
2 Boeing 737-200s)

Its route structure mainly served the Northeast, Florida, Los Angeles and the Caribbean.

Destinations in 1993
The airline was operating jet service to the following destinations at this time:[3]

Aguadilla (BQN)
Fort Lauderdale (FLL)
Grand Turk (GDT)
Islip (ISP)
Los Angeles (LAX)
Miami (MIA)
Nassau (NAS)
Newark (EWR)
New York City (JFK)
Ponce (PSE)
Providenciales (PLS)
San Juan (SJU)
Tampa (TPA)
 West Palm Beach (PBI)
White Plains (HPN)
Worcester (ORH)

Routes in 1995
By November 1995, Carnival Air Lines flew to the following
destinations:

From the Northeast to Florida and the Caribbean:

Hartford, CT; Newburgh, NY; Islip, NY; White Plains, NY;

New York, NY; Newark, NJ

From Florida to the Northeast, Caribbean and Los

Angeles:

West Palm Beach; Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Fort Myers, Route map
Tampa, Orlando

From Los Angeles to Miami and Ft. Lauderdale

From the Caribbean to Florida and the Northeast:

Nassau, Bahamas; San Juan, Ponce and Aguadilla, Puerto Rico; Port-au-Prince, Haiti; Punta Cana,
Dominican Republic

Destinations in 1996
According to the Carnival Air Lines December 19, 1996 route map, the air carrier was serving the following
destinations with mainline jet aircraft:[4]

Aguadilla, Puerto Rico-Aguadilla (BQN)

Fort Lauderdale, FL- Fort Lauderdale (FLL)
Fort Myers, FL- Southwest Florida International Airport (RSW)
Hartford, CT- Bradley International Airport (BDL) - seasonal service
Islip, NY - Long Island MacArthur Airport (ISP)
Los Angeles- Los Angeles International Airport (LAX)
Miami, FL- Miami International Airport (MIA)
Newark, NJ - Newark International Airport (EWR)
Newburgh, NY-Stewart International Airport (SWF) - seasonal service
New York City, NY - John F. Kennedy Airport (JFK)
New York City, NY - LaGuardia Airport (LGA)
Orlando, FL - Orlando International Airport (MCO)
Ponce, Puerto Rico - Ponce (PSE)
San Juan, Puerto Rico -San Juan (SJU)
Tampa, FL - Tampa International Airport (TPA)
Washington, D.C. - Dulles International Airport (IAD)
West Palm Beach, FL - West Palm Beach (PBI)
The above referenced route map also depicts code sharing service flown by Paradise Island Airlines with de
Havilland Canada DHC-7 Dash 7 turboprop aircraft and operated in conjunction with Carnival Air Lines to
the following destinations:

Fort Lauderdale, FL (FLL)

Fort Myers, FL (RSW)
Key West, FL (EYW)
Paradise Island, Bahamas (PID)
West Palm Beach, FL (PBI)

See also
List of defunct airlines of the United States

References
1. Ostrowski, Jeff. "Codina, Swerdlow set sights on Sawgrass Mills (http://albany.bizjournals.com/
southflorida/stories/1997/03/31/newscolumn1.html)." South Florida Business Journal. Friday
March 28, 1997. Retrieved on May 23, 2009.
2. "World Airline Directory." Flight International. March 22–28, 1995. 82 (http://www.flightglobal.co
m/pdfarchive/view/1995/1995%20-%200747.html). Retrieved on July 25, 2009.
3. departedflights.com, Nov. 16, 1993 Carnival Air Lines system timetable & route map
4. "Carnival Air Lines route map" (http://www.departedflights.com/KW121996.html).
departedflights.com. Retrieved 29 July 2019.

External links
Carnival Fleet (http://www.planespotters.net/Airline/Carnival-Airlines)
Carnival Air Lines route map (http://www.airtimes.com/cgat/usa/misc/c/carnival/detail/mapkn95
nov.jpg)
Carnival-Ladeco agreement (http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1995_April_25/ai_1
6854588)

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