MWA - Maranatha World Airways (Philippines)

Maranatha Aviation formerly known as Maranatha World Airways-MWA is Philippine based airline also has many bases in other nearby countries such as Japan, Taiwan, Russia and Alaska (US).

The word Maranatha is that from the Aramaic word which means "come, our lord!"

History
Founding

In 1958 The Airline was founded as Pentecostal Air Corps as acquired DC-3 aircraft to operated along side with large airlines

New Transitions

The Airline once again change its name from MIA - Maranatha International Airways to MWA - Maranatha World Airways, It also change it's ICAO from MIA to MWA considering changing it’s livery into more modern design. The Airline Open it’s new Routes to the rest of Europe, Latin American, and some places in Africa and Arabs countries

The Airline also Bought Boeing B737-500 to replace the Bac One Eleven and B737-200s

In early 2000s The Airline Retired all of its B747-200B and DC-10 and B707 to replace with the new A320 Aircraft and A340-500 On 2005 then MWA expands it Freighter fleet with new B747-400ERF,MD-11F soon for B747-8F and B777F.Considering the conversion of A300-600 into Cargo, and selling the rest of its A300 fleet,and expanding the  freighter routes, and adding a new hubs to Clark International Airport a former US Airbase, and to Anchorage, Alaska in US.

In 2008 Then Airline Bought A330-300s to support the Arabian Routes and even Some Asian Routes

In year 2010 MWA is now expanding it’s Hubs to Naha, Okinawa and Haneda Tokyo Areas While the fleet is expanding Because of Airport Congestion In Manila Area. At the same time opening it’s 2nd Regional Hub to Mactan-Cebu Airport.

In 2015 New Livery Branding was Introduce I was given a nickname as “The Clean Livery”.

The airline also acquire many Aircrafts such as A350-900,B787-8,A320NEO,A321NEO

In 2016 MWA rebrand their Regional airline Into “Maranatha Connection” from “Maranatha Regional Express”, And Renewing the Fleet with ATR72-600,A220-300 and from it’s mainline  the older A320-200 to replace with A320NEO from the Mainline fleet. In 2018 MWA Rebrand the Cargo into Maranatha Cargo, and acquire the B747-8F,B777-200F and Converting all of older B747-400 into B747-400BCF and all of it’s MD-11.

Also In 2018 MWA is now make It’s First Partner Airline with GAI - Green Airlines .Inc That is also base in The Philippines.

In 2020 MWA introduce the Maranatha Aviation as the new Branding for the whole brand, and making it as One Airline with 3 branches, The same year MWA opens the Polar Routes.

2020-2021 Pandemic and Recovery
MWA Closes many of Its Routes  to prevent spreading of the virus, and accessing only for Cargo Flights

as many routes are close MWA decide to retire all of it’s A340-500 and selling the A330-300 fleets to other airline.

In 2021 The Airline decide to order A330-800NEO. The A330-800NEO is a bit shorter the A330-300

Because of the pandemic, they will be able to reduce the number of passengers flying, so they thought that they would use a short plane but it would save fuel so as not to affect the company's expenses. 2022Maranatha Aviation decides to change the livery again. they added a gray accent to the rear fuselage of the plane next to the navy blue color, at the same time they changed the name from MWA to MARANATHA, this livery will be called Billboard style inspired by Pan Am.

VATSIM
MWA also Operates for VATSIM Virtual Air Traffic Simulation Network. Is a network that you fly with other people around the world in real time with real ATCs. We also follow the real world flying procedure as well as how we operate our aircraft, and do our navigation and more. You can track some of our aircrafts using VATSCAN for Mobile and VATSPY for PC. To learn more about VATSIM please check out their website.

Destinations
Further Information: List of Maranatha World Airways Destination  Maranatha World Airways operates a primary hub (Manila International Airport, and Clark International Airport for Cargo Operations), Two Regional Hubs (Mactan-Cebu International Airport, and Davao International Airport), and overseas hubs (Naha International Airport, Tokyo Haneda International Airport, New Chitose International Airport, Vladivostok International Airport, and Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport for Cargo). The airline flies to destinations in Asia, North America, Oceania, Middle East, and Europe

Former livery
The First Livery was in 1960s all the way to early 1970s was only bare metal with Yellow Strip on the windows with Percostal Air Corps on the side. The MWA former "1970s Colors" or "Retro Color" Consist of Eurowhite at the top Metal Grey at the bottom and, Blue strips for the lower windows with the M.I.A Maranatha International Airlines Text on each side. All aircraft wearing this livery are either retired or repainted. on 2020 one Boeing B747-400ER was in this Livery.

The Second Livery change was in 1995. That livery called as "90s Colours" or "Gray 1995" was consist on of Indigo, Yellow and Grey for whole Fuselage with newly change name M.W.A Maranatha World Airways on each side, One B747-400ER is also repainted with "90s colours"

2015-2022
The current was change in 2015 from Grey livery. The livery is consist of "Dark Navy, Grey and Eurowhite" on Its Tail With Dominant Eurowhite for the Fuselage, The MWA test is painted in Dark Navy is Maranatha World Airways overlaying. The "Operated By: Maranatha Aviation" is painted on Left Front part of Fuselage, There are each Bible Verse written on the  Right Middle Front side of Fuselage, and also for the each nicknames are also written on Right Front part of the fuselage. The livery earned a nickname "The Clean Livery" but there are no official name for the current livery.

2022
They added a gray accent to the rear fuselage of the plane next to the navy blue color, at the same time they changed the name from MWA to MARANATHA, this livery will be called Billboard style inspired by Pan Am.

Special livery
There are few special livery on the fleet such as "Aviador PH Airline Alliance Fleet","Pacific Freight Alliance/Group" for B777-200F,"Let's move it Together" for B747-400ERF