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California Pacific Airlines?
New airline prepares for takeoff from Carlsbad
By Robert J. Hawkins
3 p.m., June 12, 2011
Ted Vallas, the 90-year-old founder of California Pacific Airlines, stands before his first counter at
Palomar Airport in Carlsbad. The airline is currently
seeking certification from the Federal Aviation Administration and hopes
to be in the air in early 2012.
San Diego County could soon become home base to the first commercial airline since the iconic Pacific Southwest Airlines disappeared into the folds of USAir in the 1980’s.
In fact, California Pacific Airlines already exists on paper and in the physical presence of a check-in counter at the McClellan-Palomar Airport in Carlsbad. A management team and operations plans are assembled and a small fleet of Embraer 170 aircraft is waiting in the wings.
All that is needed for the airline to begin service to the first half-dozen cities on its itinerary is Federal Aviation Administration certification. And that, says the 90-year-old founder of the airline, Ted Vallas, is close enough to begin planning for an early 2012 launch.
This isn’t the first airline on Vallas’ resume, but times have certainly changed since Air Resorts flew in the 1980s and ‘90’s. To get certified back then, Vallas recalled over coffee in The Landing restaurant at Palomar Airport, four operations manuals were submitted to the FAA for certification. They covered everything from Air Resorts’ back office, to in-flight service, to maintenance, to the check-in counter.
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90 Jahre, und kein bißchen müde!;-) Toll!
