RED Air S.R.L. is a low-cost leisure airline with facilities in

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and main offices in

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History

The airline was founded in January 2020 as a joint venture between the Venezuelan airline LASER Airlines and Dominican

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SERVAIR Dominicana.

Destinations

As of December 2024, RED Air serves scheduled flights to the following destinations:

Fleet

Current

As of January 2025, RED Air operates the following aircraft:

Former

RED Air formerly operated the following aircraft:

Incidents

*On June 21, 2022, RED Air Flight 203 experienced a landing gear collapse. The McDonnell Douglas MD-82 (registered as HI1064) slid through a communications tower and caught fire at

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. All 140 people on board survived. At least three people were hospitalized with reportedly-minor injuries. The aircraft has been written off as a total loss. The NTSB final report on the accident stated the cause of the accident was the left main landing gear's shimmy dampener failing to mitigate extreme vibrations during landing rollout. The vibrations caused the gear's lower torque link to fail and the entire left gear collapsed as a result.

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* {{Airlines of the Dominican Republic Airlines established in 2020 Airlines of the Dominican Republic Low-cost carriers