New Mexico Airlines

New Mexico Airlines was an American commuter airline brand founded by Pacific Air Holdings to operate flights in New Mexico after the airline was awarded an Essential Air Service contract to serve Hobbs and Carlsbad, New Mexico. The airline started flights on July 1, 2007, and uses the airline identifiers and call signs of its parent company Pacific Wings. Despite having "New Mexico" in the name, the brand was actually headquartered in Mesa, Arizona, in metropolitan Phoenix. The carrier had all of its aircraft grounded by the FAA in December 2014 and was able to get some aircraft back in the air in early 2015 but completely shut down by May, 2015.^[2]

New Mexico Airlines

IATA ICAO Call sign LW NMI TSUNAMI
Founded	2007; 17 years ago (2007)
Ceased operations	2015; 9 years ago (2015)
Hubs	Albuquerque International Sunport
Fleet size	5[1]
Destinations	2
Parent company	Pacific Air Holdings
Headquarters	Mesa, Arizona
Key people	Greg Kahlstorf (CEO), Gabriel Kimbrell (DO), David Mantay (CP)
Website	http://www.flynma.com

New Mexico Airlines aircraft

New Mexico Airlines aircraft

Previous destinations

• Alamogordo, New Mexico (Alamogordo-White Sands Regional Airport)
• Midland, Texas / Odessa, Texas^[3]
• Los Alamos, New Mexico (Los Alamos County Airport)(Contract Terminated as of January 23, 2015)
• Ruidoso, New Mexico (Sierra Blanca Regional Airport)
• Santa Fe, New Mexico (Santa Fe Municipal Airport)^[4]
• El Paso, Texas (El Paso International Airport)
• Hobbs, New Mexico (Lea County Regional Airport)^[5]
• Albuquerque, New Mexico (Albuquerque International Sunport)
• Carlsbad, New Mexico (Cavern City Air Terminal)^[6][7]

Fleet

As of December 2014, the New Mexico Airlines fleet consisted of the following aircraft:^[1]

New Mexico Airlines Fleet

Aircraft	Total	Passengers
Cessna 208B Caravan 675	5	9

See also

• List of defunct airlines of the United States

References

1. Howerton, Matt (December 23, 2014). "FAA investigates New Mexico Airlines". KOAT-TV. Retrieved December 27, 2014.
2. "Our Policies^{[permanent dead link‍]}." New Mexico Airlines. Retrieved on July 4, 2009.
3. Bacalso, Courtney (2008-07-16). "New Mexico Airlines drops service at Midland International". Midland Reporter-Telegram. Archived from the original on 2013-01-04. Retrieved 2008-08-25.
4. "Q & A". New Mexico Airlines. Archived from the original on 2007-12-24. Retrieved 2008-02-13.
5. Davis, Stella. "New Mexico Airlines pulls out of Lea County". Current-Argus News. Current-Argus News. Archived from the original on 27 December 2014. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
6. Onsurez, Jessica. Feds deny appeal of Carlsbad's essential air service contract, Carlsbad Current-Argus, August 29, 2013, retrieved 2014-07-16
7. Onsurez, Jessica; England, Katie. "Airport: Carlsbad now connected to Dallas/Fort Worth". Current-Argus News. Current-Argus News. Archived from the original on 22 May 2015. Retrieved 1 May 2015.

External links

• New Mexico Airlines