Pacific East Asia Cargo Airlines


Pacific East Asia Cargo Airlines, Inc. was a cargo airline based in Pasay City, Philippines. The carrier served domestic services from the Philippines with two Boeing 727 freighter aircraft. The airline also had an agreement on selected routes flown by Air Philippines. PEAC was also an affiliate airline of TNT Airways, with PEAC operating TNT leased BAe 146 aircraft.

History

On October 9, 1990, Pacific East Asia Cargo Airlines, Inc. was officially formed and on the 20th of December 1991 was granted a certificate of public convenience and necessity to operate scheduled international all-cargo services.
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, freighter flights to Taipei using a Boeing 727F and domestic freighter flights to Cebu and Clark utilizing another B727 freighter.
In the period 2007 to 2011, PEAC was the fifth largest cargo carrier in the Philippines with a market share of 3.17%, transporting 23.3 million kilograms.
But on March 19, 2010, its air operator's certificate was suspended, and eleven days later on March 30, the airline was added to the European list of banned air carriers until June 25, 2015. By the end of 2010, the company ceased operations.

Services

Pacific East Asia Cargo Airlines served domestic and regional destinations around the Philippines and surrounding region with a fleet of 727 freighter aircraft and a variety of leased aircraft. The airline also had 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. The TNT-PEAC joint-venture also considered re-locating the airline's hub from Manila's Ninoy Aquino International Airport to nearby Olongapo's Subic Bay International Airport.
In June 2006, PEAC resumed its three times weekly Angeles-Clark – Taipei all-cargo services, utilizing a B727-200F freighter. This was 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.

Former destinations

Pacific East Asia Cargo Airlines served the following Destinations. This also included cargo flights with their Air Philippines Agreement. The Airline also offers its 727 aircraft for charter services.

[Philippines]

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[People's Republic of China]

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AircraftIn ServiceOriginNotes
Boeing 727F727-100F: 0
727-200F: 0
McDonnell Douglas DC-8-71F0
Boeing 747-200F0
Boeing 747-400F0
Antonov An-120
Antonov An-260
Antonov An-300
Ilyushin Il-76T0
Airbus A300-600F0
Saab 340B0
Shaanxi Y-8F-3000
Indonesian Aerospace CN-235-2200
Antonov An-320
Antonov An-72AT0 /To be fitted with winglet upgraded by PADC
Ilyushin Il-96-400T0
Boeing 767-300F0 fitted with blended winglets
Airbus A330-200F0
Boeing 747-8F0
Total0 in service -


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