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Caribiar
Founded	1983
Hubs	La Isabela International Airport;
Secondary hubs	Cibao International Airport; Las Américas International Airport; Gregorio Luperón International Airport;
Focus cities	María Montez International Airport; Port-au-Prince International Airport; Arroyo Barril International Airport;
Fleet size	18
Destinations	26
Parent company	Caribair, Inc.
Headquarters	Santo Domingo
Key people	Rafael Rosado Fermin (CEO)
Website	http://www.caribair.com.do

This article is about the Dominican Republic airline. For the Puerto Rican airline of the same name, see Caribair (Puerto Rico).

Caribair is an airline based in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. It operated scheduled services within the Dominican Republic and to Haiti, as well as charter flights and air taxi services throughout the Caribbean. Its main base was La Isabela International Airport, Santo Domingo^[2].

[edit] History

Formation
The airline was established and began operations in 1983^[1]. It began operations with two aircraft and changed ownership in 1988^[2].

Operations suspended

On January 20, 2009 the Dominican Civil Aviation Institute (IDAC) ordered Caribair to suspends operations due to alleged "operational irregularities". Caribair reportedly was found by IDAC inspectors to be "masking multiple commercial operations as private operations in unauthorized airplanes."^[3] The company announced on January 26, 2009 that they would appeal their suspension.^[4]

IDAC announced the cancellation of the suspension for Caribair. The airline is now available to operate some reduced flights using only two aircraft. The IDAC will recertificate the rest of the fleet by the time until October 2009.

[edit] Accidents

February 7, 2008, A Caribair flight crashed close to La Romana, when their engines shut down. There are no fatal victims, but the pilot had some injures. The aircraft was a Britten Norman Islander BN-2A, registred as HI-653, and departed from Cibao International Airport to Punta Cana International Airport via La Romana International Airport at 6 pm. There is a commission to investigate this accident.

January 3, 2009, A Caribair flight from Santo Domingo-La Isabela to Wilmington, operated with the Cessna Citation Bravo (N815MA) crashed while approaching ILM.

There were no injures, but the aircraft still stored at Wilmington, and it will not longer belongs to Caribair anymore.N815MA

[edit] Destinations

Main article: Caribair destinations

Caribair operated services to the following international scheduled destinations (at January 2005): Port-au-Prince and Santiago de Cuba.

Caribair flew to 26 destinations in 9 countries, including Aruba, the Bahamas, Haiti, Netherlands Antilles, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, Cuba, and some scheduled charter flights to the United States.

Domestics destinations included all airports in Dominican Republic, making it the largest airline of the country.

[edit] Fleet

The Caribair fleet included the following aircraft (at March 2007) ^[2] :

**Caribair Airlines Fleet**
Registration	Aircraft	Total / Based in	Passengers (Economy)	Notes
HI-848 HI-866	Saab 340A	2 / JBQ	36	Aruba / St. Maarten / Charters Routes
HI-746CA HI-830	BAe Jetstream 31	3 / JBQ	19	Caribbean Routes
HI-666CT HI-713CT	Let L-410 UVP	2 / JBQ	19	Caribbean / Charter routes
HI-697CT HI-698CT	Let L-410 UVP-E	3 / JBQ	19	Caribbean / Miami routes
HI-635CA HI-653CA	Britten-Norman BN2A Islander	2 / JBQ	11	Domestic / Caribbean routes Note: HI-653 crashed
HI-569CT HI-585CA	Piper PA-31 Navajo	3 / JBQ	7	Domestic / Caribbean / Charter routes
HI-314CT	Piper PA32	1 / JBQ	4	Domestic routes
HI-311CA	Cessna 172	1 / JBQ	3	Domestic routes
N815MA	Cessna 550	1 / JBQ	9	U.S. / Caribbean / Charter routes Crashed at KILM

Caribair currently has three aircraft operating, the rest are all stored at JBQ

[edit] Codeshare Agreements

Caribair was the parent company of the Haitian airline Caribintair. Caribair had 6 aircraft in leasing for this airline, operating domestics flights in Haiti, as well as some international flights to Santo Domingo and Santiago, Dominican Republic. They also operated charter flights into Barahona and Dajabon. All Caribintair flights were codeshared by Caribair.

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b Norwood, Tom; Wegg, John (2002). North American Airlines Handbook (3rd ed.). Sandpoint, ID: Airways International. ISBN 0-9653993-8-9. http://www.airwaysnews.com.
^ ^a ^b ^c Flight International 3 April 2007
^ "IDAC suspende operaciones de Caribair por un año". El Caribe. January 24, 2009. http://www.elcaribecdn.com/index.php/actualidad/pais/nacionales/197092-idac-suspende-operaciones-de-caribair-por-un-ano.html.
^ "Caribair apelará suspensión". Diario Libre. January 27, 2009. http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=186303.

Dominican Republic portal

[NAAH-0] Norwood, Tom; Wegg, John (2002). North American Airlines Handbook (3rd ed.). Sandpoint, ID: Airways International. ISBN 0-9653993-8-9. http://www.airwaysnews.com.

[FI-1] Flight International 3 April 2007

[2] "IDAC suspende operaciones de Caribair por un año". El Caribe. January 24, 2009. http://www.elcaribecdn.com/index.php/actualidad/pais/nacionales/197092-idac-suspende-operaciones-de-caribair-por-un-ano.html.

[3] "Caribair apelará suspensión". Diario Libre. January 27, 2009. http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=186303.

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