PGA Express was a Portuguese

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based in

Cascais Cascais () is a town and municipality in the Lisbon District of Portugal, located on the Portuguese Riviera, Estoril Coast. The municipality has a total of 214,158 inhabitants in an area of 97.40 km2. Cascais is an important tourism in Port ...

at Cascais Municipal Airport. It was a subsidiary of Portugália (or ''PGA'' for short) and therefore also

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and used to operate services to

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in a franchise agreement with both of them. On 21 March 2014, TAP Portugal announced it would buy two ATR 42-600 for Portugália to replace their two smaller Beechcraft 1900D operated by PGA Express. However, White Airways now operates both ATRs on behalf of TAP Air Portugal instead of PGA Express leaving PGA Express' current status unclear as it no longer maintains any flight operations.

Fleet

As of April 2015, the PGA Express does no longer operate any aircraft as both Beechcraft 1900D have been phased out while their replacement is not operated by PGA Express.

References

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