PenAir

Anchorage

PenAir ( registered as Peninsula Airways, Inc. d / b / a ) is the largest regional airline based in Anchorage Alaska and home base on the Anchorage airport.

History

With 19 years Orin Seybert founded in King Solomon on the Alaska Peninsula Peninsula Airways with a four-seater Piper Tri - Pacer. In 1965 he bought with a bank loan Alaska Aeromarine. The package included the Chevron representative of the landing site as well as two additional aircraft.

1967 Seybert did with the aviation pioneer Bob Reeve, the operator of the Aleutian Airways, together. On behalf of Reeve Peninsula Airways flew between King Solomon and Chignik, Perryville and Ivanoff Bay.

1969 Seybert purchased the company Tibbetts - Herre Airmotive and made George Tibbetts vice-president. Through the purchase, he secured the rights to air the Pribilof Islands. The flights were subsidized by the U.S. Fish Authority and the United States Postal Service since still lived about 150 Aleutian Islands to the Pribilof.

Bob Reeve had the exclusive rights to the Aleutian Islands, and linked its network with those of the Peninsula Airways. 1985 Seybert took over the Air Transport Service on Kodiak including hangar, six aircraft and the route rights Kodiak Island.

1998 Peninsula Airways moved to Anchorage, but retained most of the existing routes. 1991 Peninsula Airways changed its name in outer appearance in PenAir and concluded a code -share agreement with Alaska Airlines.

Destinations

PenAir operated directly from its headquarters in Anchorage from some places on the mainland of Alaska on the bases in Dillingham and King Solomon, and the Pribilof Islands and the Aleutian Islands on the bases Dutch Habour and Cold Bay and the island of Kodiak.

Fleet

As of July 2013, the fleet consists of 15 planes PenAir: