The airline covered secondary routes within Peninsular Malaysia and international flights to Sumatra in Indonesia, Thailand and Singapore.
[1] Pelangi Air was incorporated in 1987 to service the domestic sector and international destinations.
[2] They ceased operation in late 2001 following the take over of international route to Singapore by Berjaya Air.
Pelangi Air ordered some De Havilland Canada Dash 8 in 1997 which were never delivered.
[1] They used to wet-lease a 737-200 passenger configurations from Transmile Air Services and wear Aero Asia livery to fly some domestic route for a short period in 2000.