Pacific Air Express
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| Founded | 1993 | ||||||
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| Ceased operations | 2021 | ||||||
| Operating bases | Brisbane Airport | ||||||
| Fleet size | 0 | ||||||
| Headquarters | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia | ||||||
| Website | www.pacificairexpress.com.au | ||||||
Pacific Air Express was an airline based in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It operated cargo services to Honiara, Nauru, Noumea, Port Moresby and Port Vila; and charter flights in the South Pacific area.[2][3] Its main bases were Brisbane Airport and Honiara International Airport.[4][5]
The airline was established in 1993 by Australian expatriate Gary Clifford (Managing Director/CEO) and a business partner from the Solomon Islands. The airline was originally based in Honiara but relocated due to civil unrest in 1999. It had 35 employees as of March 2007.[4] In 2021 its wet lease agreement with Qantas Freight on the Melbourne to Perth route ended, being replaced with Express Freighters Australia Airbus A321-200P2Fs.