Salsa d'Haïti

SALSA d'Haïti
IATA ICAO Callsign
SO SLC SALSA
Founded 2008
Hubs

Toussaint Louverture International Airport

Hugo Chávez International Airport
Fleet size 1
Destinations 2
Headquarters Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Key people
Website flysalsa.com
A SALSA Beech99 registered HH-APA.

SALSA d'Haïti is a Haitian airline headquartered at Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. It flies several round trip flights daily between Cap-Haitien and Port-au-Prince.

SALSA is an acronym for Services Aeriens Latinosamericains, S.A. d'Haïti (translated from French to English as "Latin American Air Services Corporation of Haiti").

SALSA d'Haïti holds the IATA airline designator of SO (Sierra-Oscar), IATA accounting prefix of 340 [1] and International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) airline designator of SLC (Sierra-Lima-Charlie). SALSA also participates in the International Air Transport Association (IATA) Multilateral Prorate Agency - Passenger (MPA-P) and is a signatory of the IATA Prorate Agency Agreement[2] (PAA).

In September 2011, SALSA d'Haïti was accepted as a member of the IATA Multilateral Interline Transport Agreement (MITA).

History

SALSA d'Haïti is a privately held airline formed in 2008 to provide service for travel within Haiti.

While the primary focus of the airline is to serve the Haitian local population, international expansion is planned to further this goal to the large Haitian population living outside of Haiti while at the same time making foreign tourist travel to areas outside of Port-au-Prince available.

Plans

SALSA has orders for additional turboprop aircraft to expand domestic operations to Port-de-Paix, Jérémie and Les Cayes. Additionally, jet-powered aircraft were to be added in 2011 to serve international destinations in Kingston, Jamaica and Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

Airline cooperations

SALSA maintains interline or codeshare agreements with the several airlines.

Operations connect at Port-au-Prince where passengers must transfer from the international airport to the domestic airport for onward transportation to domestic destinations. SALSA provides complementary transportation between the Port-au-Prince international and domestic terminals.

2010 Haiti earthquake

Shortly after the 2010 Haiti earthquake on January 12, 2010, SALSA d'Haïti began organizing relief efforts with several non-governmental organizations and foreign governments to assist in the transportation of supplies into Port-au-Prince and other Haitian communities outside of the capital.

Relief flights were flown throughout Haiti, as well as supply flights from Santo Domingo, Aruba and Curacao. Charter flights for the Royal Dutch Marines, from their base in Willemstad, Curacao, were some of the first flights from outside North America.

Destinations

SALSA d'Haïti Destinations
City Country Airport
Port-au-PrinceHaiti HaitiToussaint Louverture International Airport
Cap-HaïtienHaiti HaitiHugo Chávez International Airport

Future destinations

SALSA d'Haïti Future Destinations
City Country Airport Notes
JacmelHaiti HaitiJacmel AirportNovember 2011
JérémieHaiti HaitiJérémie AirportNovember 2011
Les CayesHaiti HaitiAntoine-Simon AirportNovember 2011
Port-de-PaixHaiti HaitiPort-de-Paix AirportNovember 2011
KingstonJamaica JamaicaNorman Manley International AirportNovember 2011, Pending government approvals.
Santo DomingoDominican Republic Dominican RepublicLas Américas International AirportNovember 2011, Pending government approvals.

Current fleet

SALSA d'Haïti Fleet
Aircraft In Service Orders Passengers Delivery Date
British Aerospace Jetstream J31 1 2 19 2008

Former fleet aircraft

Former SALSA d'Haïti Aircraft
Aircraft Passengers Removed from Fleet
SAAB 340A[3] 30 2010
Beechcraft 99 12 2011

Incidents and accidents

References

  1. http://www.iata.org/publications/Pages/code-search.aspx
  2. http://www.iata.org/whatwedo/finance/Pages/proration.aspx
  3. "Photos: Saab 340A Aircraft Pictures". Airliners.net. 2010-06-15. Retrieved 2013-07-01.

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