A regional airline, New Mexico Airlines, was supposed to start service on July 1st. I looked on flightaware to see if I could find any flights and theres nothing. So whats the problem? The airports they are flying to are Hobbs (KHOB), Carlsbad (KCNM) Albuquerque (KABQ) and Santa Fe (KSAF). http://www.flynma.com
They apparently only have two Caravans. Maybe they just didn’t sell any tickets. They are owned by Pacific Wings which fly Caravan’s around Hawaii. They seem to be filing IFR for those flights.
They’re aren’t any tickets available for that route until Aug. 2nd. Which leads me to believe that they aren’t selling tickets yet for that route, or they’re already booked for the next month.
Please! Be more specific in your subject heading. “Question” doesn’t mean anything. “Quesiton on New Mexico Airlines” does mean something.
As mentioned, it appears that New Mexico Airlines is operated by Pacific Wings. Check flightaware.com/live/fleet/NMI every once in a while to see if you can find any (not just New Mexico) flights operated by Pacific Wings.
Unless they received special permission, as in the case of Skybus, they are not allowed to sell tickets until they actually start operations. I haven’t seen any docket that authorized them to sell tickets early so they are probably operating flights.
Operating a 9 seat aircraft means that the seats sell out fast so it doesn’t surprise that no seats are available.
Won’t call but will give the docket number so that people can look up the process that a carrier goes through in order to get EAS (Essential Air Service) authority.
Interesting to note is that there is no C208 traffic at any of their route cities (other than Martinaire, the part 135 freight hauler). You would think they would be doing practice runs if service was imminent.
Yah and Roswell being one of them. American Eagle is moving into Roswell September 5th. IMO I predict that more people will want to connect to DFW than ABQ, so that may be AMW’s downfall in that part on New Mexico