PAL Airlines is planning to add two routes from Halifax to Boston and Newark.
The new routes will be operated in association with Air Canada.
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PAL Airlines and the Exchange Income Corporation (EIC) family of airlines is proud to be awarded a contract by the Government of Canada for the continued delivery of specialized air charter services on behalf of Indigenous Services Canada (ISC). These carefully managed air charter services facilitate travel to First Nations fly-in communities across Canada, ensuring health care professionals and other personnel can continue the delivery of essential services and critical supplies to sensitive communities.
Operated with strict health and safety protocols in place, these charter flights allow health care professionals and other personnel to board aircraft at dedicated facilities and maintain quarantine during travel.
PAL Airlines is proud to announce our enhanced winter schedule for Atlantic Canada and Quebec, designed to meet market demand with new capacity, solidify our new fleet of Q400 aircraft in regular commercial service and enhance connectivity across our network.
“PAL Airlines continues to manage our way forward based on a strategy of staying close to our customers and connected to the communities we serve,” said Calvin Ash, President of PAL Airlines. “We’re confident the growth we’ve announced today responsibly matches our capacity to market demand while allowing us to continue meeting the needs of our customers and expanding our network in the near future.”
PAL Airlines continues to maintain an extensive presence throughout Atlantic Canada and Quebec with scheduled passenger and cargo services to a variety of destinations. Today’s updated schedule specifically introduces two new routes, Moncton – Deer Lake and Moncton – Wabush, that allow for easy expansion as seasonal demand increases. These additions also solidify PAL Airlines’ presence in Moncton ahead of the initiation of our previously announced Moncton – Ottawa service, intended to start as travel restrictions in Atlantic Canada are progressively reduced.
PAL Airlines has also increased frequencies across our Quebec market offering additional services throughout the region and enhancing connectivity between our Montréal and Wabush hubs. As our new schedule is introduced, PAL Airlines will monitor events in the market and continue working with industry partners and customers to enhance scheduled services and meet community requirements.
The Chilean Customs (Servicio Nacional de Aduanas) is conducting its third auction of the year on September 2, 2018.
Aside from abandoned/confiscated goods, there are four Boeing 737-200/300 aircraft abandoned at Santiago Airport (SCL), Chile . The airliners are:
PAL Airlines (Santiago) has ceased flying mining charters. In early August, sources inside the airline said they will no longer fly domestic charters, becoming a ground services provider and possibly, operating the southern hemisphere charters to tropical destinations, blaming the current economic situation in Chile, the open skies policy and the stop in mining investments.
This happened after losing its AOC for the second time in the year.
A mining charter flight was operated on August 4. This is likely the last flight.
The airline has shut down its website.
The Chilean airline started operations in 2003 as Principal Airlines-Aerolinea Principal de Chile.
Thanks to Alvaro Romero, reporting from Chile.
Copyright Photo: Alvaro Romero/AirlinersGallery.com. Boeing 737-2K9 CC-ACD 9msn 23404) is pictured in the past at the Santiago base.
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PAL Airlines (Santiago) has overcome all the issues raised by Chile’s DGAC (Civil Aviation Directorate) during the inspection of its facilities at Santiago’s Arturo Merino Benítez Airport. On June 11 the airline got its AOC back. PAL Airlines has begun operations again with Boeing 737-300 CC-AIT. A second aircraft is being prepared to fly football fans to the FIFA 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
Copyright Photo: Alvaro Romero/AirlinersGallery.com. Boeing 737-3G7 CC-ADZ (msn 23404) taxies at Santiago in a special football livery.
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Special thanks to Alvaro Romero, reporting from Chile.
PAL Airlines (Santiago) on May 27 saw its Air Operator Certificate (AOC) suspended because the local DGAC (Chile’s Civil Aviation Directorate) detected the airline did not accomplish technical requirements that may risk the operational safety of the airline if these issues are not corrected. The DGAC decided to stop all PAL Airlines operations until these issues are corrected. According to DGAC, PAL Airlines is working to recover its AOC in the coming days.
Here is the statement by the AGAC (translated from Spanish):
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) reports that according to the audits that are usually performed, the audits revealed that Principal Chile SA Airlines (PAL) has failed to comply with the technical requirements for its Air Operators Certification (AOC). Therefore its operation could jeopardize security if detected problems are not solved.
Therefore, citizens of Chile are informed that if these problems are not resolved, all air operations of this company will be suspended until the company hows its ability to comply with the technical requirements of aviation regulations .
The company is committed to provide a solution, as soon as possible, to the problems identified so as to continue to operate with the utmost safety .
The DGAC regrets the inconvenience this may cause, but the obligation of the Aeronautics Division is to ensure aviation safety.
Meanwhile PAL Airlines has stated it is working hard to relocate its maintenance facilities to another area of Santiago Airport (the original facilities were already demolished).
PAL is working hard to recover its AOC and expects to obtain it again in the next 4-5 days.
PAL Airlines has issued this statement about its efforts to restore its AOC (in Spanish): CLICK HERE
Special thanks to Alvaro Romero reporting from Chile.
Copyright Photo: Alvaro Romero/ModoCharlie.com. Ex-United Boeing 737-322 CC-ACE (msn 24669) completes its final approach back to the Santiago hub.
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PAL Airlines (Santiago) has leased in from AirEuropa (Palma de Mallorca and Madrid) the pictured Airbus A330 for the southern summer season. The new type entered revenue service on January 11, 2014 between Santiago and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.
Copyright Photo: Alvaro Romero/ModoCharlie.com. AirEuropa’s Airbus A330-343X EC-LXR (msn 1097) taxies yesterday (January 21) with joint titles at hot and hazy Santiago, Chile.
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PAL Airlines (Santiago) announced it is taking legal actions against the Chilean government seeking damages for the lost market share due to foreign airlines operating domestically in Chile. Specifically the legal actions are aimed at carriers from Mexico and Sweden. Both countries have not signed a reciprocal Open Skies agreement with Chile.
Previously the Chilean government authorized West Air Sweden (West Atlantic) and Global Air (Aerolíneas Damojh S.A. de C.V.) to operate domestic services within Chile. West Air is operating its Bombardier CRJ200 freighter SE-RIF. Global Air was recently allowed to operate by the Chilean DGAC (Chile’s General Directorate for Civil Aviation) and the JAC (Chile’s Joint Civil Aviation Authority). Global Air is operating a Boeing 737-200 registered as XA-TWR. Both aircraft are operating in Chile for Servicios Aéreos Río Baker. XA-TWR operated a flight transporting mining personnel between Antofagasta and Calama on May 14.
Copyright Photo: Alvaro Romero/ModoCharlie.com.
PAL Slide Show: CLICK HERE
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