Flamingo Air is a small airline in the

Bahamas The Bahamas, officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an archipelagic and island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean. It contains 97 per cent of the archipelago's land area and 88 per cent of its population. ...

. Its base of operations is the

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. It also has offices in Marsh Harbour Abaco Airport, in Bimini International Airport, and in the

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, Nassau. It provides scheduled service to several islands, as well as

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service to the Bahamas and south

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. Another airline that was based in the Bahamas with a similar name was Flamingo Airlines which operated scheduled passenger service during the early 1970s with

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jet aircraft,

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, and

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prop aircraft from its base in Nassau.

Accidents

The operation has had several minor incidents or accidents none of which has resulted in injury to date: *31 July 2012 -

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experienced mechanical problem departing Freeport *18 August 2012 -

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C hit trees while attempting to abort a landing in heavy rain *4 October 2013 - Cessna 402 landing gear collapsed during landing at Mayaguana on a charter flight *16 August 2016 -

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A Flamingo Air plane crash landed at the airport in South Bimini on Monday afternoon after the wheel under the right wing collapsed. *3 June 2016 -

landing gear failed during landing at Staniel Cay *12 June 2020 -

Nose Landing Gear collapsed during landing at Lynden Pindling International Airport *17 October 2022 -

Left landing gear failed during landing at Black Point *2 October 2023 -

Boarding door opened mid flight en route to Staniel Cay.

Fleet

Schedules

*Freeport to

Marsh Harbour Marsh Harbour is a town in Abaco Islands, Bahamas, with a population of 6,283 as of 2012. The settlement lies on a peninsula just off the Great Abaco Highway, which runs south through Great Abaco to Cherokee Point and Little Harbour. North of to ...

*Freeport to South Bimini *Nassau to

Staniel Cay Staniel Cay is an island located in The Exuma Cays, a district of The Bahamas. Staniel Cay is located roughly south of Nassau, Bahamas, Nassau and southeast of Florida. The island has a population of less than 118 full-time residents and has an ...

*Nassau to Black Point *Nassau to Great Harbour Cay *Nassau to

Mangrove Cay Mangrove Cay is one of the districts of the Bahamas, on Andros Island. The capital of Mangrove Cay is Moxey Town in the northeast corner of the island. There are 3 schools: Victoria Point Preschool, Burnt Rock Primary, and Mangrove Cay High S ...

*Nassau to

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References

External links

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