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Flamingo Air
IATA ICAO Callsign
— FMR FLAMINGO AIR
Operating basesGrand Bahama International Airport
Lynden Pindling International Airport
Fleet size9
Destinations13
HeadquartersBahamas
Websiteflamingoairbah.com

Flamingo Air is a small airline in the Bahamas. Its base of operations is the Grand Bahama International Airport in Freeport. It also has offices in Marsh Harbour Abaco Airport, in Bimini International Airport, and in the Lynden Pindling International Airport, Nassau. It provides scheduled service to several islands, as well as Air Charter service to the Bahamas and south Florida. The airline is currently grounded after a number of incidents in recent years. The Bahamian authorities have said they will keep all the aircraft grounded until inspections of Flamingo Air's maintenance and investigation into their safety practices are completed. [1]

Another airline that was based in the Bahamas with a similar name was Flamingo Airlines which operated scheduled passenger service during the early 1970s with British Aircraft Corporation BAC One-Eleven jet aircraft,Convair 340, Lockheed L-188, and Douglas DC-3 prop aircraft from its base in Nassau.[2]

Accidents

The operation has had several minor incidents or accidents none of which has resulted in injury to date:

Fleet

Flamingo Air's Fleet
Aircraft Total Damaged Passengers
Cessna 402C Utiliner/Businessliner 3 0 9
Beechcraft C99 Commuter 5 2 15
Beechcraft 99A Airliner 1 1 15
de Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 Twin Otter 1 0 19

Schedules

References

  1. ^ https://thenassauguardian.com/flamingo-air-grounded/
  2. ^ "Flamingo Airlines". Airline Timetable Images. Retrieved 2023-01-02.
  3. ^ 4 survive crash at Freeport
  4. ^ Final report, 18 August 2012 incident
  5. ^ "One less Flamingo Air plane.... - Bahamas Forum - TripAdvisor". www.tripadvisor.com. 2013-10-04.
  6. ^ "No injuries as Flamingo Air plane crash lands".
  7. ^ "Landing gear fails on Flamingo Air plane". Tribune 242. 2016-06-03. Retrieved 2018-04-25.
  8. ^ Reporter, WIC News (2022-10-18). "Flamingo Air flight with 11 people on board overruns runway in Bahamas". WIC News. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
  9. ^ https://ewnews.com/terrifying-ordeal-passenger-door-opens-mid-air-on-early-morning-flamingo-air-flight
  10. ^ "Transportation Options To The Out Islands". www.myoutislands.com. Retrieved 13 January 2023.

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