Isla Nena Air is a airline from Vieques. The airline operates small aircraft, as Vieques airport is not prepared to handle jets. This is a list of airlines in operation. ... Vieques is an island-municipality of Puerto Rico. ... Vieques Airport is a small commercial air facility in the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico. ... See also: Jet (disambiguation) A jet is a stream of fluid produced by discharge through an orifice into free space. ...

History

Isla Nena Air was formed during the middle 1990s, as a competitor of Vieques Air Link, which had a monopoly on routes to Vieques because it was the only airline of name that was operating to the small Puerto Rican island-municipality's airport. Events and trends Technology Explosive growth of the Internet; decrease in the cost of computers and other technology Reduction in size and cost of mobile phones leads to a massive surge in their popularity Year 2000 problem (commonly known as Y2K) Microsoft Windows operating system becomes virtually ubiquitous on IBM... Vieques Air Link (VAL) is a small but popular Puerto Rican airline company that, just as its name says, links Vieques with Culebra and mainland Puerto Rico. ...

Eventually, Isla Nena Air became known to Puerto Rican travellers, as it opened routes to Culebra Airport in Culebra, Fajardo Airport in Fajardo and Luis Munoz Marin International Airport in San Juan. Isla Culebra (Snake Island) is an island-municipality of Puerto Rico originally called Isla Pasaje and Isla de San Idelfonso. ... Fajardo is a small but popular city located on the north east coast of Puerto Rico. ... Executive Air dba American Eagle ATR-72 and American Airlines aircraft at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in April 2001 Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in Carolina, Puerto Rico, is the islands main international gateway, and its main connection to the mainland United States. ... San Juan is the capital of Puerto Rico. ...

With the protests of several Puerto Rican, as well as international, celebrities and regular people alike, of the United States military's presence in Vieques, Isla Nena Air, like Vieques Air Link, benefitted economically, as the airline saw a growth in its number of yearly travellers. The protest ended in 2003, when the American military decided to leave Vieques. 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, and also: The International Year of Freshwater The European Disability Year Events January January 1 - Luíz Inácio Lula Da Silva becomes the 37th President of Brazil. ...

During the late 1990s, another stiff competitor, Air Culebra, began flights to Vieques, making the new airline Isla Nena Air's second competitor on the lucrative Vieques to Culebra air bridge route. Air Culebra, established in 1998, is a small Puerto Rican airline company that flies out of the island of Culebra, in Puerto Rico, and the Luis Munoz Marin International Airport, in San Juan. ...

American Eagle is expected to enter the Vieques market in 2005, bringing Isla Nena Air yet another competitor. American Eagle can refer to: American Eagle Airlines American Eagle Outfitters, an American clothing retailer AMC Eagle car (also known as American Eagle) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Not everything in the future looks bleak for the airline, however: after the military pull-out, several hotels have opened in Vieques, and several other hotel chains have announced plans to open hotels there, to make Vieques a tourist center, which could, as a consequence, turn more profits for the airline.

Despite all the advances in Vieques and in Isla Nena Air's structure, the airline remains a relatively small operation, not having, for example, an internet website or some other mechanisms or forms of advertising from which modern air passengers can benefit. A website, Web site or WWW site (often shortened to just site) is a collection of webpages, that is, HTML/XHTML documents accessible via HTTP on the Internet; all publicly accessible websites in existence comprise the World Wide Web. ...

External links

Some information about Isla Nena Air (http://www.airlinedata.com/us-i.htm)