Arrow Air

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DC10 Freighter

Arrow Air (IATA: JW, ICAO: APW, call sign: Big A) is a cargo airline based in Miami, Florida. It operates over 90 weekly scheduled cargo flights, and has a strong charter business.

History

The airline was established in 1947 as an all-cargo operator. Passenger services were adopted by the late 1970s and early 1980s, both on a charter and regular scheduled service basis. Arrow Air had many passenger flights from JFK International Airport in New York and from Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan at the time, using Lockheed L-1011 as well as McDonnell Douglas DC-10 and DC-8 equipment at the time.

During the 1990s, Arrow Air's management decided to return the airline to being an all-cargo operator once again. Formerly a subsidiary of International Air Leases, Air Arrow was acquired by Fine Air in 1999, but it remained flying under the name Arrow Air. Fine Air also still operates under its own name. In January 2004 Arrow Air filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, but exited in June 2004 after a bankruptcy court approved its restructuring.

Arrow Air has contracts with many toy airplane companies, such as Herpa Wings, to sell model airplanes.

Incidents & Accidents

On December 12 of 1985, an Arrow Air DC-8 carrying American military personnel on a charter flight home for Christmas crashed in Newfoundland, killing all 248 passengers on board and 8 crew members. See: Arrow Air Flight 1285.

A McDonnell Douglas DC10-10F (registered N68047) en route Miami-Managua touched down hard at Managua on June 4, 2006 and was unable to stop before the end of the runway. The aircraft overran by about 300 meters, the nose gear collapsed and there is substantial damage to the engines as well as a possible fuel rupture in the wing caused by the hard landing.

Services

Arrow Air operates the following freight services (at January 2005):

• Domestic scheduled destinations: Atlanta and Miami.

• International scheduled destinations: Guayaquil, Iquitos, Bogotá, Lima, Panama City, Quito, San José, and San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Scheduled Destinations of Arrow Air, Inc. dba Arrow Cargo, are Guatemala City, Guatemala; San Salvador City, El Salvador; San Pedro Sula, Honduras; Managua, Nicaragua; San Jose, Costa Rica; Panama City, Panama; Bogota & Cali, Colombia; Quito & Guayaquil, Ecuador; Lima & Iquitos, Peru; Santiago, Chile; Manaus & Salvador (Bahia) & Sao Paolo, Brazl; Ciudad Del Este, Paraguay

Fleet

The Arrow Air fleet includes the following aircraft (at August 2006):

• 2 McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10F
• 3 McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30F
• 2 McDonnell Douglas DC-8-62
• 4 McDonnell Douglas DC-8-63CF
• 1 McDonnell Douglas DC-8-63F

Previously operated:

• 6 Boeing 747-200 (at January 2005)

Livery

White fuselage with large, red lettered name on the front of the cabin, with a blue cheatline that goes all the way to the tail, where the line transforms into a blue 'A'. With the blue 'A', the tail consists of a blue-white combination of colors. In addition, a new livery was also introduced recently, which consists of a blue diagonal stripe midway through the fuselage, with white in front and green behind this stripe. "Arrow Cargo" titles appear toward the front of the plane with a blue logo, which also appears on the tail.

External links

• Arrow Air