Do you remember this company that wanted to get up to 20 old DC-9's from Delta?
They scrapped their plans for those ol' birds, but apparently are now ready to fly. Or are they?
Former thread here on DR1:
http://dr1.com/forums/airline-info/140148-pawa-dominicana-acquire-twenty-delta-dc-9-50s.html
From ch-aviation.com
PAWA Dominicana scraps Delta DC-9 plans, goes with MD-87s - ch-aviation.com
PAWA Dominicana (7N, Santo Domingo Las Am?ricas) has abandoned plans to acquire up to twenty DC-9-50s from Delta Air Lines (DL, Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson) choosing instead to equip its fleet with MD-8X aircraft. Airline sources who spoke to ch-aviation exclusively said the DC-9's poor economics would have impacted profit margins too significantly.
A DC-9-50 that was to have been PAWA's first aircraft has since been sold to an undisclosed Panamanian airline which plans to convert it into a freighter. As a result, Dominican carrier will now resume operations using two MD-87s - N599SH (msn 49727) and N572SH (msn 49780) - sourced from sister carrier, Venezuela's Aserca Airlines (R7, Caracas Sim?n Bolivar).
PAWA secured its Air Operators Certificate (AOC) from the Dominican Republic's civil aviation authority (Junta de Aviaci?n Civil de la Rep?blica Dominicana - JAC) last week paving the way for its to launch scheduled flights to Aruba, Curacao, Panam? City Tocumen Int'l, and St. Martin in due course.
The new airline livery:
(photo by Arturo Peralta)
(photo by Eddy Gual)
This was the old PAWA livery from 2009
They could not have made DC9's flying profitably then, they thought they could make them now?
They scrapped their plans for those ol' birds, but apparently are now ready to fly. Or are they?
Former thread here on DR1:
http://dr1.com/forums/airline-info/140148-pawa-dominicana-acquire-twenty-delta-dc-9-50s.html
From ch-aviation.com
PAWA Dominicana scraps Delta DC-9 plans, goes with MD-87s - ch-aviation.com
PAWA Dominicana (7N, Santo Domingo Las Am?ricas) has abandoned plans to acquire up to twenty DC-9-50s from Delta Air Lines (DL, Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson) choosing instead to equip its fleet with MD-8X aircraft. Airline sources who spoke to ch-aviation exclusively said the DC-9's poor economics would have impacted profit margins too significantly.
A DC-9-50 that was to have been PAWA's first aircraft has since been sold to an undisclosed Panamanian airline which plans to convert it into a freighter. As a result, Dominican carrier will now resume operations using two MD-87s - N599SH (msn 49727) and N572SH (msn 49780) - sourced from sister carrier, Venezuela's Aserca Airlines (R7, Caracas Sim?n Bolivar).
PAWA secured its Air Operators Certificate (AOC) from the Dominican Republic's civil aviation authority (Junta de Aviaci?n Civil de la Rep?blica Dominicana - JAC) last week paving the way for its to launch scheduled flights to Aruba, Curacao, Panam? City Tocumen Int'l, and St. Martin in due course.
The new airline livery:
(photo by Arturo Peralta)
(photo by Eddy Gual)
This was the old PAWA livery from 2009
They could not have made DC9's flying profitably then, they thought they could make them now?
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