Carnival Air Lines Incorporated was a charter and scheduled airline division of the

Carnival Corporation & plc Carnival Corporation & plc is a British-American cruise operator with a combined fleet of over 100 vessels across 10 cruise line brands. A dual-listed company, Carnival is composed of two companies – Panama-incorporated, US-headquartered Carniv ...

that started in 1988 after

Carnival Cruise Lines Carnival Cruise Line is an international cruise line with headquarters in Doral, Florida. The company is a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation & plc. Its logo is a funnel shaped like a whale's tail, with a red, white, and blue color scheme. This ...

purchased Pacific Interstate Airlines. It was headquartered in

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History

The origins of Carnival Air Lines can be traced to 1984 when Pacific Interstate Airlines was founded in Las Vegas, Nevada. This airline flew charters between Las Vegas and Los Angeles with a single Boeing 727-100 jetliner. In 1985, the name was changed to Pacific Inter Air and then two years later the name was changed to Bahamas ExPress. By this time the airline was flying out of airports in the East Coast of the US to Freeport in the Bahamas.

bought the company in 1988 and the airline's name was once again changed to Fun Air, but its aircraft was never painted with that name and cruise ship passengers were flown under the name Majestic Air. The final identity of Carnival Air Lines came to being in 1989 and began flying from Miami, the Northeast USA and later on expanded to other destinations, with its home base in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. (See routes below). In 1992, Carnival Air Lines began a code-share agreement with

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of Spain to transport connecting passengers from Madrid to Los Angeles via Carnival's Miami Hub. The route was originally operated by a

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but was replaced in 1994 with Carnival's first

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. In 1993, Carnival began operating its first wide-body aircraft by flying

Lan Chile LATAM Airlines Chile (formerly LAN Airlines and LAN-Chile) is an airline based in Santiago, Chile, one of the founders of LATAM Airlines Group, Latin America's largest airline holding company. The main hub is Arturo Merino Benítez Internationa ...

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as part of the interchange agreement with the Chilean airline. The exclusive route was from Miami to New York's JFK airport. In 1995, when the agreement with

LAN-Chile LATAM Airlines Chile (formerly LAN Airlines and LAN-Chile) is an airline based in Santiago, Chile, one of the founders of LATAM Airlines Group, Latin America's largest airline holding company. The main hub is Arturo Merino Benítez Internationa ...

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 Corporation, a holding company formed by the reincarnated

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, 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

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used for the reincarnated Pan Am was abandoned in favor of the acquired Carnival operating certificate.

Pan Am Pan American World Airways, originally founded as Pan American Airways and commonly known as Pan Am, was an American airline that was the principal and largest international air carrier and unofficial overseas flag carrier of the United States ...

, now operating with the Carnival certificate, quickly resumed limited charter operations while new owner

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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.

Destinations in 1993

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The airline was operating jet service to the following destinations at this time: *

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( BQN) *

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( FLL) * Grand Turk ( GDT) *

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(

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) *

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(

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) *

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(

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) *

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(

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) *

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( EWR) *

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(

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) * Ponce (

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) *

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( PLS) * San Juan ( SJU) *

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( TPA) *

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( PBI) * White Plains ( HPN) *

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( 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, 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: *

Aguadilla, Puerto Rico Aguadilla (, ), founded in 1775 by Luis de Córdova, is a city and municipality located in the northwestern tip of Puerto Rico, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, north of Aguada, and Moca and west of Isabela. Aguadilla is s ...

(BQN) *

Fort Lauderdale, FL Fort Lauderdale () is a coastal city located in the U.S. state of Florida, north of Miami along the Atlantic Ocean. It is the county seat of and largest city in Broward County with a population of 182,760 at the 2020 census, making it the tenth ...

(FLL) *

Fort Myers, FL Fort Myers (or Ft. Myers) is a city in southwestern Florida and the county seat and commercial center of Lee County, Florida, United States. The Census Bureau's Population Estimates Program calculated that the city's population was 92,245 in 202 ...

Southwest Florida International Airport Southwest Florida International Airport is a major county-owned airport in the South Fort Myers area of unincorporated Lee County, Florida, United States. The airport serves the Southwest Florida region, including the Cape Coral-Fort Myers, N ...

(RSW) *

Hartford, CT Hartford is the List of capitals in the United States, capital city of the U.S. state of Connecticut. It was the seat of Hartford County, Connecticut, Hartford County until Connecticut disbanded County (United States), county government in 19 ...

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(BDL) - ''seasonal service'' *

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(ISP) *

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(LAX) *

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(MIA) * Newark, NJ -

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(EWR) *

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(SWF) - ''seasonal service'' *

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- John F. Kennedy Airport (JFK) *

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(LGA) *

Orlando, FL Orlando () is a city in the U.S. state of Florida and is the county seat of Orange County. In Central Florida, it is the center of the Orlando metropolitan area, which had a population of 2,509,831, according to U.S. Census Bureau figures relea ...

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(MCO) *

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- Ponce (PSE) *

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- San Juan (SJU) *

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(TPA) *

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(IAD) * West Palm Beach, FL -

(PBI) The above referenced route map also depicts

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service flown by

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with

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turboprop aircraft and operated in conjunction with Carnival Air Lines to the following destinations: *

(FLL) *

(RSW) *

Key West, FL Key West ( es, Cayo Hueso) is an island in the Straits of Florida, within the U.S. state of Florida. Together with all or parts of the separate islands of Dredgers Key, Fleming Key, Sunset Key, and the northern part of Stock Island, it con ...

(EYW) * Paradise Island, Bahamas (PID) * West Palm Beach, FL (PBI)

Fleet

This is an extract found regarding the Carnival Air Lines fleet: Carnival Air Lines route structure mainly served the northeast U.S., Florida, Los Angeles and the Caribbean.

References

External links

Carnival FleetCarnival Air Lines route mapCarnival-Ladeco agreement
{{Members of the Carnival Corporation Airlines established in 1988 Airlines disestablished in 1998 Carnival Corporation & plc Defunct airlines of the United States Pan Am Airlines based in Florida Defunct companies based in Florida Companies based in Broward County, Florida Carnival Cruise Lines