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The airport was served heavily by the Puerto Rican national air carrier, Prinair, during the 1970s and early 1980s. It took the airport three years to get commercial service again once Prinair went bankrupt in 1984. American Eagle opened service from Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in 1987, and Eastern AirlinesFor the Chinese airline, see China Eastern Airlines. Eastern Airlines was a United States airline company that existed from the late 1920s to 1991. History Eastern Air Lines began life on April 19, 1926 as Pitcairn Aviation. Pitcairn won a government cont, not to be outdone by their rival American'sAmerican Airlines AA is the major airline in the United States. It is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, and operates scheduled flights throughout the United States, as well as flights to Latin America, Western Europe, and Japan. Since 1982, AA has been feeder carrier, soon began services there too, with their own feeder airline, Eastern Metro Express .

Although the airport has always been a turbo-prop airplane airport, Pan Am announced, in 20022002 is a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). 2002 was the first palindromic year since 1991 and the last until 2112. 2002 was also designated: International Year of Ecotourism and Mountains National Science Year in the United Kingdom, intentions to install jet flights between Mayagüez and Las Americas International Airport in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, with Boeing 727The Boeing 727 was, for a very long time, the most popular jet-liner in the world. The 727 first took the skies during the 1960s, much earlier than its bigger and more famous sister the Boeing 747. The 727 design arose as a compromise between United Airlis. Those plans never became a reality, but in 20032003 is a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar), and also: The International Year of Freshwater The European Disability Year Summary Perhaps the defining global event of the year 2003 was the Invasion of Iraq launched by the U, the airport gained international status, when Fina Air picked up the route to Santo Domingo.

The airport has been involved in various air tragedies: A Prinair Heron airplane fell while landing there, killing all nine passengers. In 1989, an American Eagle airplane flying to San Juan from Mayagüez also crashed, killing five passengers.