Pacific East Asia Cargo Airlines

Infobox Airline
airline = Pacific East Asia Cargo Airlines

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fleet_size = 2
destinations = 17
IATA = Q8
ICAO = PEC
callsign = Papa Echo Charlie
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founded = 9 October 1990
headquarters = Pasay City, Philippines
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hubs = Ninoy Aquino International Airport
secondary_hubs = Diosdado Macapagal International Airport
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website = http://www.peacairlines.com/

Pacific East Asia Cargo Airlines, Inc. is a cargo airline based in the Philippines. The carrier serves domestic services from the Philippines with their Boeing 727-100 and 727-200 Freighter aircraft. The airline also has an agreement on selected routes flown by Air Philippines. PEAC was also a affiliate airline of TNT Airways, with PEAC operating TNT leased Bae 146 aircraft. [ [http://www.cargonewsasia.com/timesnet/data/cna/docs/cna2616.html "TNT opens Asian cargo hub in Manila"] ] [ [http://sec.edgar-online.com/1996/07/17/00/0000950134-96-003582/Section12.asp "Kitty Hawk Inc"] ]

History

On October 9, 1990, Pacific East Asia Cargo Airlines, Inc. (PEAC) was officially formed and on the 20th of December 1991 was granted a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity (CPCN) to operate scheduled international all-cargo services. [http://www.peacairlines.com/history.htm "PEAC History"] ]

On the September 1, 1999, the airline came to a cargo agreement with local airline, Air Philippines. During 2002 the airline operated freighter flights to Hong Kong using A300F type aircraft leased from the Turkish Airline, MNG Airlines [http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2001/12/18/140222/give-peac-a-chance-says-carrier.html "Give PEAC a chance, says carrier"] ] , freighter flights to Taipei using a Boeing 727F and domestic freighter flights to Cebu and Clark utilizing another B727 freighter.

Services

Pacific East Asia Cargo Airlines (PEAC) serves Domestic and Regional destinations around the Philippines and surrounding region with a fleet of 727 freighter aircraft. The airline also has an agreement with domestic carrier, Air Philippines, to codeshare selected cargo operations to airports that Air Philippines operates to. During a tie-up with TNT, PEAC leased four Bae 146 aircraft from TNT Airways, at the end of the lease in 1999 the aircraft where returned to Europe. [ [http://www.smiliner.com/news/1999.shtml "Bae 146 - News Archive 1999"] ] The TNT-PEAC joint-venture also considered re-locating the airlines HUB from Manila's Ninoy Aquino International Airport to Nearby Olongapo's Subic Bay International Airport. [ [http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/1995/07/12/25462/taking-over.html "Taking over"] ]

On June 2006, PEAC resumed its three times weekly Angeles-Clark (Angeles City) – Taipei all-cargo services utilizing a B727-200F freighter. [http://www.peacairlines.com/14June2006.htm "PEAC Resumes CRK ops"] ] This is in addition to PEAC’s five times weekly service between Cebu and Angeles-Clark utilizing a B727-100 freighter with aircraft registry RPC-5353, operating since 2002.

Destinations

Pacific East Asia Cargo Airlines (PEAC) serves the following Destinations (May, 2008). This also includes Cargo flights with their Air Philippines Agreement. [ [http://www.peacairlines.com/cargo_schedule.htm "Domestic Shedule"] ] The Airline also offers it's 727 aircraft for charter services. [ [http://www.peacairlines.com/charter.htm "PEAC Charter"] ]

Southeast Asia

*Philippines
**Luzon
***Angeles (Diosdado Macapagal International Airport)
***Legazpi (Legazpi Airport)
***Manila (Ninoy Aquino International Airport)
***Puerto Princesa (Puerto Princesa Airport)
***Tuguegarao (Tuguegarao Airport)
**Visayas
***Bacolod (Bacolod-Silay City International Airport)
***Cebu (Mactan-Cebu International Airport)
***Dumaguete (Sibulan Airport)
***Iloilo (Iloilo International Airport)
**Mindanao
***Cagayan de Oro (Lumbia Airport)
***Davao (Francisco Bangoy International Airport)
***General Santos (General Santos International Airport)
***Zamboanga (Zamboanga International Airport)

East Asia

*Taiwan
**Taipei (Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport)

References: [ [http://www.peacairlines.com/cargo_schedule.htm "Air Philippines/PEAC Air Agreement routes"] ] [ [http://www.peacairlines.com/domestic_schedule.htm "PEAC Domestic Freighter Flights"] ] [ [http://www.peacairlines.com/regional_schedule.htm "PEAC Regional Freighter Flights"] ]

Former Destinations

*Singapore
**Singapore (Changi Airport)
*Hong Kong
**Hong Kong (Chep Lap Kok Airport)
*South Korea
**Seoul (Incheon Airport)
*Indonesia
**Jakarta (Soekarno-Hatta International Airport)

References: [http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/1997/04/16/634/explosive-progress.html "Explosive Progress by TNT"] ]

Fleet

As of May 2008 the Pacific East Asia Cargo fleet includes [Flight International, 3-9 October 2006] :

*1 Boeing 727-100F
*1 Boeing 727-200F

(not including 737 Cargo flights operated on behalf of Air Philippines)

References: [ [http://www.airliners.net/photo/Boeing-727-223(F)/1342309/M/ "Pacific East Asia Cargo Airlines 727-223(F) - RP-C5355 - 2008"] ] [ [http://www.peacairlines.com/gallery.htm "PEAC Aircraft Gallery"] ] [ [http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/1995/05/10/26750/tnt-considers-subic-bay-tie-up-with-fedex.html "TNT considers Subic Bay tie-up with FedEx"] ]

Former Fleet

*4 Bae 146 (Lease from TNT Airways) [ [http://www.airfleets.net/flottecie/Pacific%20East%20Asia%20Cargo%20Airlines.htm "Pacific East Asia Cargo Airlines Fleet History"] ] [ [http://www.smiliner.com/operators/operators.shtml "BAe 146/Avro RJ Operators"] ]
*1 Airbus A300F
*1 Boeing 737-200F [ [http://www.planespotters.net/Airline/Pacific-East-Asia-Cargo-Airlines "Details and Fleet History"] ]

References

External links

* [http://www.peacairlines.com/ Pacific East Asia Cargo Airlines official website]