PAWA Dominicana (Santo Domingo Las Américas) has abandoned plans to acquire up to twenty DC-9-50s from Delta Air Lines (DL, Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson) choosing instead to equip its fleet with MD-8X aircraft. Airline sources who spoke to ch-aviation exclusively said the DC-9's poor economics would have impacted profit margins too significantly.
A DC-9-50 that was to have been PAWA's first aircraft has since been sold to an undisclosed Panamanian airline which plans to convert it into a freighter. As a result, Dominican carrier will now resume operations using two MD-87s - N599SH (msn 49727) and N572SH (msn 49780) - sourced from sister carrier, Venezuela's Aserca Airlines (Caracas Simón Bolivar).
PAWA secured its Air Operators Certificate (AOC) from the Dominican Republic's civil aviation authority (Junta de Aviación Civil de la República Dominicana - JAC) last week paving the way for its to launch scheduled flights to Aruba, Curacao, Panamá City Tocumen International, and St. Martin in due course.
