Pacific Air Express is an airline

Airline

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 based in Brisbane

Brisbane

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, Queensland

Queensland

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, Australia

Australia

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. It operates cargo services to Honiara

Honiara

Honiara, population 49,107 , 78,190 , is the capital of the Solomon Islands and of Guadalcanal Province, although it is a separately administered town...

, Nauru

Nauru

Nauru , officially the Republic of Nauru and formerly known as Pleasant Island, is an island country in Micronesia in the South Pacific. Its nearest neighbour is Banaba Island in Kiribati, to the east. Nauru is the world's smallest republic, covering just...

 and Port Vila

Port Vila

Port Vila is the capital and largest city of Vanuatu. Situated on the south coast of the island of Efate, in Shefa Province, the city population at last was 29,356, an increase of 55% on the previous census result . This suggests a 2007 population of about 40,000 or around 65% of the province's...

; and charter flights in the South Pacific area. Its main bases are Brisbane Airport

Brisbane Airport

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 and Honiara International Airport.

History

The airline was established in 1993 by Australian expatriate Gary Clifford (General Manager) and a business partner from the Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands

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. The airline was originally based in Honiara, but relocated due to civil unrest in 1999. It had 35 employees as of March 2007.

Fleet

The airline currently uses Boeing 737-300F

Boeing 737 Classic

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 aircraft, owned and flown by Airwork

Airwork

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, to operate its services.

Previously operated

2005-2007....Boeing B727-100C

2002-2005....Antonov An-12

1996-2001....Boeing B727-200F

1995-1996....Boeing B737-300QC

1993-1994....Beech BE-200 Kingair