Everything about Bahamasair totally explained
Bahamasair is an
airline based in
Nassau, Bahamas. It is the national airline and operates domestic scheduled services to 15 destinations and regional scheduled services to
Havana and four cities in
Florida. Its main base is
Lynden Pindling International Airport.
History
Bahamasair was born out of the oil crisis of the
1970s. In
1970,
British Airways stopped flying to The Bahamas, and the Bahamian Government accurately predicted that some of the other major airlines flying to the country would follow British Airways' lead. So Bahamasair was established by the government and started operations on
7 June 1973, by acquiring the operations of Flamingo Airlines and Out Island Airways. Bahamasair was met initially with a lot of problems, such as poor maintenance facilities, economic shape and company structure.
All that brought public distrust as a consequential added problem. But soon jets started to arrive in the shape of brand new
Boeing 737s, and in
1972, it opened its first international service, from Nassau to
Tampa,
Florida. In
1973, the government's vision of many airlines leaving the island became a reality, when
Pan Am and a few other major companies decided to walk the road out that had been opened by British Airways. With that, Bahamasair grabbed a substantial part of the Bahamas air market. Through the rest of the 1970s, Bahamasair kept adding flights to other cities in Florida and, domestically, the presence of the airline also grew at a large rate.
During the early
1980s, Bahamasair unsuccessfully tried to expand to the Northeast
United States, opening flights to
Philadelphia,
Washington DC (Dulles) and
Newark, New Jersey. But in
1989, the airline's directors decided that those routes were not profitable and cut them off the airline's route map. Also in 1989, the
Boeing 727 first came into the fleet. They would acquire a total of two. That was also the year that a new livery and workers' uniform were introduced.
In
1991,
De Havilland DHC-8 were purchase to substitute the whole jet fleet comprising 737-200s. In
1997, the Boeing 737's returned to service beacause key routes warranted the cargo and passenger carrying capabilities offered by the 737-200. The 737-200 is deployed to Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Orlando and 1 domestic destination comprising of Freeport.
Destinations
Bahamasair operates the following services (as of April
2006) from its base at
Nassau International Airport:
- Domestic scheduled services:
International scheduled services:
Livery
Its livery comprises white, ocean blue and sunshine yellow on the fuselage with the name Bahamasair written over the passenger windows in ocean blue, with an ocean blue tail that has the face of a white, green and yellow bird portrayed.
Fleet
The Bahamasair fleet includes the following aircraft (at December 2007):
3 Boeing 737-200
6 Bombardier Dash 8 Q300
0 Airbus A319-100 (5 orders)Further Information
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