Pacific Air Express

Pacific Air Express

IATA ICAO Call sign PE PAQ SOLPAC[1]
Founded	1993
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]

History

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.

Fleet

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.

Previously operated

• Beechcraft 200 King Air (1993 - 1994)
• Boeing 737-300QC (1995 - 1996)
• Boeing 727-200F (1996 - 2001)
• Antonov An-12 (2002 - 2005)
• Boeing 727-100C (2005 - 2007)
• Boeing 727-200F (2007 - 2008)
• Boeing 737-300F (2008 - 2016)
• Boeing 757-200PCF (2018 - 2021)^[8]

References

1. Airline Code PAQ, airframes.org Retrieved 17 December 2009
2. Pacific Air Express website route map page. Retrieved 2010-06-21.
3. "Vanuatu gets new dedicated air freighter service". Vanuatu Daily Post. 7 December 2009. Retrieved 21 June 2010.
4. "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International. 10 April 2007. p. 60.
5. "Freight Destinations". Pacific Air Express. Retrieved 24 October 2018.
6. "Pacific Air Express bids adieu to sole freighter". CARGOFACTS.COM. 25 October 2021. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
7. "Australia's Pacific Air Express retires only aircraft". ch-aviation. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
8. Ltd, Plane Sales Pty. "1985 Boeing 757 200 | Aircraft Listing". Plane Sales Australia. Retrieved 5 June 2021.

External links

• Pacific Air Express