Florida Coastal Airlines
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| Founded | 1995 | |||
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| Hubs | Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport | |||
| Fleet size | 5 | |||
| Destinations | 8 | |||
| Headquarters | Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States | |||
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| Website | http://www.flyfca.net/ | |||
Florida Coastal Airlines (FCA) is an airline based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA. It operates services between Florida and the [Bahamas] [Cuba] and [Haiti]
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[edit] History
In August 2008, Florida Coastal Airlines resumed operations under new ownership. Florida Coastal Airlines is currently run and operated by the now defunct Lynx Air International employees. In May 2009, the FAA revoked Lynx's airline certificate with such reasons as poor maintenance and unsafe aircraft conditions. Currently, Lynx has taken all there aircraft and transferred them to the Florida Coastal Airlines Certificate. They are operating the same un-safe airplanes under a different name. In July of 2009, Florida Coastal Airlines added service to Cap Haitian, Haiti and Guantanamo Bay Naval Base.
Lynx/Florida Coastal Airlines has had a history of late and unpaid bills. The latest publicized were in July 2009, which prompted then Lynx's eviction from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. "'We couldn’t continue on with the company not paying in a timely manner.'....The company owes the airport $33,000, and the airport told commissioners that Lynx has a long history of not meeting its financial commitments and running up late fees."[1]
Currently Florida Coastal Airlines, Inc. offers charter flight services to the islands of the Bahamas. Florida Coastal Airlines services Bimini, Cat Island, Congotown, Governor's Harbour,and North Eleuthera, and Guantanamo Bay Naval Air Station Enhancements
Florida Coastal Airlines has introduced the Saab 340A, which offers 30-passenger charter flights between Fort Lauderdale and Guantanamo Bay Cuba. The flights departs Fort Lauderdale on Mon, Wed, Thu, Sat at 6:30pm. Flights from Guantanamo Bay Cuba depart at 8:00am on Tue, Thu and Friday. An additional flight departs from Guantanamo Bay at 9:00am on Sun.
Florida Coastal Airlines also offers direct flight to Cap Haitien, Haiti along with Cargo shipments. Cargo is available to be picked up 7 days a week in Cap Haitien.
[edit] Fleet
N157SD - Saab 340A (Active)
N158SD - Saab 340A (Inactive)
N425RC - Cessna 402C (Active)
N77FC - Cessna 402C (Inactive)
N61NE - Metro III (Inactive)
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[edit] References
- ^ http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/broward/blog/2009/06/lynx_air_must_leave_airport_te.html
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