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Article: Market Watch.
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- Regional Aviation News
- Article date:
- January 5, 2009
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Air Panama Launches Saab Service
Air Panama took delivery of its first ex Colgan Saab 340B in December, with a second aircraft scheduled for arrival in early 2009. Saab Aircraft Leasing acted as a broker for both the airline and TurboLease, a Connecticut- based company acting as the lessor in this transaction. Serial Numbers 294 and 299 will replace Air Panama's aging Fokker F27s and will be used on service to Bocas del Toro, Changuinola, as well as San Jose in Costa Rica.
Air Panama employs approximately 200 staff and flies 175,000 passengers annually to more than 20 destinations within Panama. The airline flies nearly 25,000 takeoffs and landings ...