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Founded | 1993 | ||||||
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Ceased operations | 2021 | ||||||
Operating bases | Brisbane Airport | ||||||
Fleet size | 0 | ||||||
Headquarters | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia | ||||||
Website | www.pacificairexpress.com.au |
Pacific Air Express was an airline based in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It operated cargo services to Honiara, Nauru, Noumea, Port Moresby and Port Vila; and charter flights in the South Pacific area. [2] [3] Its main bases were Brisbane Airport and Honiara International Airport. [4] [5]
The airline was established in 1993 by Australian expatriate Gary Clifford (Managing Director/CEO) and a business partner from the Solomon Islands. The airline was originally based in Honiara but relocated due to civil unrest in 1999. It had 35 employees as of March 2007. [4] In 2021 its wet lease agreement with Qantas Freight on the Melbourne to Perth route ended, being replaced with Express Freighters Australia Airbus A321-200P2Fs.
In October 2021 the airline's final aircraft (a Boeing 757-200 registered VH-PQA) left Australia. [6] The airline owns a second Boeing 757-200 (registration N314ST, msn 22211) but it remains in storage in Budapest, having never actually flown to Australia. [7] The airline appears now to be dormant.
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Founded | 1993 | ||||||
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Ceased operations | 2021 | ||||||
Operating bases | Brisbane Airport | ||||||
Fleet size | 0 | ||||||
Headquarters | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia | ||||||
Website | www.pacificairexpress.com.au |
Pacific Air Express was an airline based in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It operated cargo services to Honiara, Nauru, Noumea, Port Moresby and Port Vila; and charter flights in the South Pacific area. [2] [3] Its main bases were Brisbane Airport and Honiara International Airport. [4] [5]
The airline was established in 1993 by Australian expatriate Gary Clifford (Managing Director/CEO) and a business partner from the Solomon Islands. The airline was originally based in Honiara but relocated due to civil unrest in 1999. It had 35 employees as of March 2007. [4] In 2021 its wet lease agreement with Qantas Freight on the Melbourne to Perth route ended, being replaced with Express Freighters Australia Airbus A321-200P2Fs.
In October 2021 the airline's final aircraft (a Boeing 757-200 registered VH-PQA) left Australia. [6] The airline owns a second Boeing 757-200 (registration N314ST, msn 22211) but it remains in storage in Budapest, having never actually flown to Australia. [7] The airline appears now to be dormant.