Carnival had/has their own airline? The pictures on this site are dated 1997, so I'm assuming that its long gone but the table says 2 737's are still in the 'fleet'. When/Why/How did this emerge? And if it has gone, when/why/how? Actually i think i could understand a how (airline saturation, simply cheaper to bump passengers on commercial flights rather than running a small fleet of their own).

But i haven't a cleu of the stil excist ore not?

They eventually had a fleet of about 22 aircraft, mostly 727s and 737s, and I believe they had an A300, too. I flew on them a couple of times between Miami and San Juan; it was crowded, no frills transportation.

By 1998 the airline was gone, the victim of low profits and poor reputation, especially in the wake of the infamous ValuJet crash in Miami. People were not willing to fly the cheap, no-frills charters for a while after that.

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Originally posted by cruceromania:
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Originally posted by Linerrich:
They eventually had a fleet of about 22 aircraft, mostly 727s and 737s, and I believe they had an A300, too. I flew on them a couple of times between Miami and San Juan; it was crowded, no frills transportation.

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Well if you look at the database table in that link, it shows that they only ever had 13 A300's (all gone) and a total of 24 737's (22 gone and 2 stored).

I just found it interesting as I did a search and pretty much found nothing on it, was wondering why no-one ever said anything about it.

I was unaware of this when I doctored a Carnival aircraft for a thread sometime recently, only subsequently coming across it. My doctoring wasn't too bad a guess. The moon on the wrong edge.

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Originally posted by Linerrich:
Yes, Carnival Airlines was formed in 1989 as a charter airline to carry passengers from various cities into the Bahamas and San Juan, to feed their ships......

Rich

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Pacific Interstate Airlines acquired by Carnival and renamed Carnival Airlines(a division of Carnival Cruise Lines)
They begun international air service to San Juan, Puerto Rico and Aguadilla, Puerto Rico on charter flight.

On march 2nd 1990, Fantasy made a maiden voyage and started 3-day Nassau cruise and 4-day to Nassau/Freeport Cruise out of Miami while Mardi Gras had been offering same cruises out of Ft. Lauderdale and relocated to Port Canaveral in 1991 although Carnivale had been based Miami but deployed to Port Canaveral in 1990.

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Originally posted by Chris:
It's an Airbus A-300

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Correct. And Pam's doctored pic is an A-380.

Brian

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March 4, 1997

Carnival Air sets Fort Lauderdale nonstops to Islip, N.Y.

Fort Lauderdale-based Carnival Air Lines said it will launch the only nonstop service between Miami and Islip, N.Y., on April 29. Fares will start at $218 round trip, with flights served by a Boeing 737-400 that accommodates 159 passengers. Carnival already offers nonstop service between Islip and Miami, Palm Beach, Orlando and Tampa.

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In the march 1990, Jubilee relocated from Miami to Los Angeles.

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OT a bit.. but in a port of call... we went into McD in Civitavecchia to get a drink. On the wall was this print.

I thought it was just some advert, and the daughter ran off in embarrasssment of me taking the photo but I-DAVZ is a real MD82 & a photo at Milan is here. McDonald's flies with [vola con] Alitalia. [I originally though it was vola.com which turns out to be a sanitary equipment firm ]

MD-80

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