PAWA Dominicana

Pan Am World Airways Dominicana, C x A. dba PAWA Dominicana

IATA 7Q ICAO PWD Callsign PAWA DOMINICANA
Founded	2003
Hubs	Las Américas International Airport Cibao International Airport
Focus cities	Punta Cana International Airport Rafael Hernández Airport
Frequent-flyer program	Yes
Airport lounge	Yes
Alliance	Aserca Airlines / SBA Airlines
Fleet size	6
Destinations	8
Company slogan	Tu Nueva Opcion para Volar (Your new choice to flight)
Parent company	[Private group investors]
Headquarters	Santo Domingo
Key people	Mirtha Espada - President & CEO
Website	[1]

Pan Am World Airways Dominicana is the national and international flag carrier of the Dominican Republic. It was created as a subsidiary airline for Pan American World Airways. This airline has scheduled flights between the Dominican Republic and Haiti, Puerto Rico, Curaçao and other Caribbean destinations. Its hubs are Santo Domingo-Las Américas International Airport and Santiago-Cibao International Airport.

PAWA

Pan Am World Airways Dominicana is a Dominican airline based in Santo Domingo-Las Americas. It has some charter flights to other Caribbean islands and domestic destinations within the Dominican Republic, but the majority of flights are to Aguadilla, Venezuela, Aruba, Curazao and Punta Cana. It currently is the only Dominican airline under Part 121 actually operating in the Dominican Republic, since May 2007.

PAWA Dominicana's hub is in Santo Domingo-Las Americas Intl Airport^[1], where the airline operates and maintains their fleet.

Luis Muñoz Marín Airport is expected to become a secondary hub for PAWA Dominicana; however, the majority of the airline's flights operate into Aguadilla and connect through the Dominican Republic.

On June 04, 2010 the company was purchased by a group of airlines professionals leading by Mrs. Mirtha Espada appointed as Company's President.

Routes

DC-9-32 PAWA Dominicana Ex N949N now HI-869

PAWA Dominicana flies from the Dominican Republic to Haiti and Puerto Rico in regular scheduled flights. They currently have regular services outbound their mayor hub Santo Domingo SDQ to Aguadilla, Ponce, Port-Au-Prince, San Juan as international, and to Punta Cana and Santiago as domestics routes. The airline also has international flights out of Punta Cana and Santiago. They operates DC-9 aircraft in their DR-San Juan routes. The JS-31 aircraft operates most of the airline's routes.

New destinations include Miami, as regular service destination and Samana as charter destination in addition to San Juan's Isla Grande Airport, that is currently served.^[2]

Destinations

Main article: PAWA Dominicana destinations

PAWA Dominicana currently flies to Puerto Rico, on scheduled regular service, and some charters in the Caribbean and into the Dominican Republic.

Fleet

PAWA Dominicana's fleet consists of two JetStreams series 31 and three McDonnell Douglas DC-9 series 30, all ex Northwest Airlines. ^[3]

PAWA Dominicana Fleet

Aircraft	Total	Based at	Remarks
Jetstream 31	2	SDQ	HI-817, HI-841
DC-9-32	2	SDQ	HI-869, HI-876
MD-82	2	SDQ	HI-914, N242AA (Stored at OPF)

Others
The airline is looking for possibilities to purchase a wide body aircraft for Europe flights and MD-80 for SDQ-MIA / SDQ-JFK Routes.

External links

Dominican Republic portal

• PAWA Dominicana official website
• PAWA Dominicana fleet info at planespotters.net

References

1. ^ CH-Aviation (November 21, 2008). "PAWA Dominicana hubs and airline details". ch-aviation.ch. http://www.ch-aviation.ch/airlinepage.php?code1=PWD. Retrieved 2009-02-24. 
2. ^ DOT / Regulations.gov (March 8, 2009). "PAWA Dominicana begins services to Florida". Regulations.gov / Department of Transportation. http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/main?main=DocumentDetail&o=0900006480901274. Retrieved 2009-03-10. 
3. ^ CH-Aviation (May 15, 2009). "PAWA Dominicana's fleet". ch-aviation.ch. http://www.ch-aviation.ch/aircraft.php?search=set&airline=PWD&al_op=1. Retrieved 2009-05-15.