boston - maine airways
this article is about the company founded as boston - maine airways in 1931. for boston - maine airways that was founded in 1999, see boston - maine airways .
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former panam services now operated by boston - maine airways as panam clipper connection .
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delta service in boston dates back to 1933 when boston - maine airways, which became northeast airlines, inaugurated service .
3 / 31 / 04 bedford minuteman: boston - maine airways begins operations at hanscom .
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6 / 23 / 01 herald: guilford industries, owner of boston / maine airways, is hampering the debut of faster rail service between boston and portland, maine .
scheduled airline service and airmail debut in manchester when boston, maine and vermont airways adds the queen city to its boston to montreal route .
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hangar 8 was originally constructed for northeast airlines, which began service as boston - maine airways in 1933 .
in 1933, boston and maine railroad again formed a boston - maine airways subsidiary, which started service on august 11, 1933, from boston to portland and bangor, maine, using eight - passenger stinson t planes. the fare from boston to bangor cost $ 23 round - trip .
delta’s service history in boston dates back to aug. 11, 1933, when boston - maine airways (later northeast airlines) began service from boston to bangor and portland, maine. northeast airlines merged with delta in 1972 .
commercial aviation advertising print for boston - maine airways, inc. , and central vermont airways, inc. , showing maps of destinations served by these airlines .
, boston maine airways ended their jetstream scheduled passenger service. march 29, 2008 was the last b - 727 flight. [
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12 / 19 / 01 boston - maine: boston - maine airways received final approval from the faa to commence scheduled passenger air service. its plans include service to nantucket, martha' s vineyard and cape cod from hanscom field .
7 / 4 / 01 herald: federal rail officials will test the boston - maine rail link at higher speeds, despite hampering efforts by boston / maine airway' s parent corporation .
— this article is about the u. s. state of maine. for other uses, see maine (disambiguation). state of maine …
in 1937, boston and maine purchased national airways' assets, including its airmail contract, and in november 1940, renamed it northeast airlines .
prominent backers of boston & maine airways included senator thomas gore (kansas), and eugene vidal, with amelia earhart on its board of directors .
northeast airlines' roots go back to the first attempt at establishing airline service in the new england states north of boston, massachusetts. local railroads were seeking to participate in this new, growing form of transport. boston and maine railroad, in partnership with the maine central railroads, formed a subsidiary called the boston - maine airways in july 1931 .
the airline began as boston - maine airways, founded as a pan am contract carrier on july 20, 1931, by the boston and maine railroad and maine central railroad, flying from boston to bangor via portland. it flew only sporadically until august 11, 1933, when it began contract service for national airways, an agreement which lasted four years. the name northeast airlines was adopted on november 19, 1940 .
2 / 3 / 02 globe: boston - maine airways is withdrawing its inaugural flight plans for hanscom field next month. this is a victory for our towns !
6 / 22 / 01 herald: massport approved controversial flights from hanscom field to cape cod by boston / maine airways, an affiliate of pan - am corp .
pan am clipper connection is operated by boston - maine airways with a fleet of boeing 727 jets featuring comfortable coach and, on many flights, clipper plus seating .
5 / 12 / 02 globe: boston - maine airways is filing flight plans for 16 daily operations from hanscom to newark and martha' s vineyard, beginning june 28 .
diclerico told the airline to restore the rates and conditions of its workers to what they were in july 2004 and banned the company' s non - unionised subsidiary boston - maine airways from flying boeing 727 aircraft and other large jets which are used on pan am routes, as well as barring pan am from transferring any aircraft to boston - maine airways .
jetblue signed a five year lease on hangar 8 in october of 2012. hangar 8 was originally constructed for northeast airlines, which began service as boston - maine airways in 1933 .
district court, requiring pan american airways (pan am) and its controlling affiliate guilford transportation industries (guilford) to maintain the operations of pan am and its relationship with alpa, in the face of management' s efforts to transfer both flying and aircraft from unionized pan am to its non - union subsidiary, boston - maine airways (boston - maine) .
the boston - maine airway’s name has its roots in the earliest days of commercial aviation. in the late l 920' s and early l 930' s, the boston & maine and maine central railroads jointly operated an airline, which provided international mail and passenger service throughout the northeastern u. s. and canadian maritimes. in fact, amelia earhart was a vice president of the original boston - maine airways, which also operated under contract with a then - fledgling pan am .
robert mudge wrote in
adventures of a yellowbird
that boston and maine airways' year of 1933 - 34 was by far its most crucial. there was' a north of' boston, south of boston' dichotomy. b & m airways had pledged its future to passenger traffic generation north of boston, at first to portland and bangor in maine but eventually to a comprehensive route structure serving yankees who were willing to take some extra risk to make their time more effective .
2 / 23 / 03 globe: despite an all time low of 2 passengers total in january, boston - maine airways will add service to the cape and the islands in march .
the photo was taken at bangor, maine on august 12, 1934. amelia earhart is standing at the left. dispatcher thomas gore of boston & maine airways is the man in the picture. the aircraft is the stinson sm - 6000, the trimotor .
12 / 15 / 02 globe: boston - maine airways will decide by the end of the month whether to continue an abbreviated schedule at hanscom field or fly away to a more viable venue .
8 / 19 / 02 globe: boston - maine airways has been getting very little demand for their service from hanscom to martha' s vineyard. vineyard resident blasts poor service of the airline .
well, boston maine did the same thing to pan am (not the original) that tsa is doing with gojets. however in the case of the pan am pilots, boston maine moved all their aircraft and assets to their boston maine division and fired all the pan am guys. so the guys from boston maine are flying the same planes and same routes as the pan am guys did, only without a contract. this is why i say worse than gojets. at least the tsa guys still have jobs .
robert mudge' s book includes anecdotes of how the new airline attracted passengers. amelia earhart was an important operative for boston and maine airways in attracting early passengers. interestingly, she did not fly for b & m airways, but she did promotion for them .
5 / 26 / 02 globe, herald: boston - maine airways will launch its hanscom field service june 28 with one round trip to newark n. j. twenty additional operations will follow shortly .
boston - maine airways operates a fleet of 19 - passenger british aerospace jetstream 31 twin turboprop aircraft, which feature pressurized air - conditioned cabins, cruise at 220 knots and have a two - pilot crew .
never did get an answer though... anybody know any timeline on additional boston - maine flying? florida flying? new england ?
4 / 3 / 03 globe, bedford minuteman: boston - maine airways, which has been seldom seen at hanscom field since introducing limited service last summer, now says it is departing the airport for good .
but with the new service from boston - maine adding to the mix of airlines, mr. weibrecht is hopeful the airport will fully recover .
2 / 20 / 04 globe, bedford minuteman: boston - maine airways says it will resume service at hanscom on march 25 with service to trenton nj. massport admits to seeking out airlines to replace shuttle america .
9 / 7 / 01 boston business journal: boston - maine airways, an airline that recently proposed service at hanscom field, has been awarded a one year contract by the faa to provide service between the faa' s technical center in atlantic city and washington, d. c .
in an immediately effective order formally revoking boston - maine’s certificate, the dot says: “because [ boston - maine ] has failed to demonstrate its financial fitness to operate, the department maintains that the air carrier is not financially fit to continue to conduct any air transportation regardless of aircraft size .
despite arguments from boston - maine that the dot’s tentative finding applied solely to its ability to conduct operations with large aircraft, the regulator remained unconvinced .
boston - maine airways, an affiliate of pan american airways based in portsmouth, n. h. , last friday saw its inaugural flight from headquarters land at the vineyard airport around noon. airline officials proceeded to the terminal for a ceremony marking the start of the carrier' s summer island service .
1 / 2 / 03 globe: although plagued by relatively few passengers since beginning service at hanscom field last july, boston - maine airways now says it will remain there, looking for things to pick up in the spring .
4 / 14 / 02 globe: boston - maine airways has again shelved plans for serving hanscom field, rejecting requests for certain documents by the massachusetts port authority, owner - operator of the airfield, although massport spokesman richard walsh said if at any time boston - maine'' wants to comply with our requirements for serving hanscom, we would welcome them with open arms .
boston - maine airways established one of the first pilot training courses in u. s. in 1939. excellent reputation of this program resulted in federal government requesting northeast to operate a wartime national defense program for training advanced flight instructors .
1 / 27 / 02 globe: boston - maine airways' plans to begin service in march at hanscom field are on hold because the airport is nearing the limit of 48 commercial flights a day mandated by a 1995 environmental study .
boston & maine airways' early success with stinson trimotors, then lockheed 10 & 12 electras. as northeast airlines, it became the last u. s. trunk airline. . second subject here is corporate aviation and gannett newspapers .
the next two challenges each resulted in an emergency landing by a stinson trimotor belonging to boston and maine airways in its founding year of operation. one shut down all three engines and the pilot made immediate and successful preparations for an emergency landing on a farm. the culprit was carburetor icing. it can occur in clear air on an ideal day and in any and all forms of cloud condition. there was in boston and maine airways' formative years no answer for carburetor icing with the stinson trimotor aircraft. the ultimate solution for boston and maine airways was to add an important requirement to the list of
must - have
features required of any new replacement aircraft. that was the feature of
carburetor heat .
boston - maine flights start by julie e. greene julieg @ urltoken daily flights to baltimore - washington international airport from hagerstown regional airport will begin on dec. 28. boston - maine airways of portsmouth, n. h. , a division of pan american, received certification this week from the federal aviation administration to provide passenger air service to baltimore from hagerstown and cumberland, md... .
right now it is very unique to have growth in service for any airport in post 9 - 11 days. we are extremely excited to have boston - maine airways, who are committed to the market ,
said mr. weibrecht .
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in august 2005, a federal investigation into fraudulent financial data submitted by boston - maine airways halted plans to expand its fleet and route system. at the same time, the airline pilots union claimed that the airline was unfit to operate and urged the
vice president of marketing dan fortnam outlined the company' s plans, saying
boston - maine airways will provide passengers with an affordable, comfortable and convenient travel experience at their local airport, whether that be for travel to another boston - maine destination, a connection to pan am' s clipper class jet service, or a connection to the wide range of travel options available at a facility such as bwi .
“the department concludes that [ boston - maine ] is not fit to conduct operations as a us certificated air carrier and denies [ the carrier’s ] request to maintain its certificate authority to operate small aircraft to facilitate the sale of the company to maine aviation. ”
in his book, captain mudge tells the story of his airline with compassion and detail. his commercial flight enterprise (
carrier
is an appropriate generic term) came to be known as northeast airlines after shedding its earlier name, boston and maine airways .
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hagerstown regional airport' s proposal to bring in a third airline and start service to philadelphia has fallen through, airport manager carolyn motz said tuesday. two airlines fly out of hagerstown - the us airways express goes to pittsburgh and the pan am clipper connection links baltimore, hagerstown and cumberland, md. shuttle america took over the us airways express from chautauqua airlines in may. boston - maine airways began the pan am clipper connection last december .
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this consent order concerns certain public holding - out practices engaged in by boston - maine airways corp. d / b / a pan am clipper connection (boston - maine) through its published schedules, its website, and its 1 - 800 telephone number that are believed by the department' s office of aviation enforcement and proceedings (enforcement 0ffice) to constitute unfair and deceptive practices in violation of 49 u. s. c § 41712 .
youtube: northeast airlines dc - 4 at boston film clip shows deplaning in 1950 .
portsmouth, nh - - boston - maine airways announced today that it has received final approval from the federal aviation administration to commence scheduled passenger air service. the portsmouth, nh - based airline company has operated as a charter carrier since its formation in march of 1999 .
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direct air (to myrtle beach, s. c. and lakeland, fla .) - june 23, 2011 - aug. 21, 2011 cape air (to bwi) - march 2009 to present allegiant air (to orlando) - november 2008 - july 2010 air midwest (us airways flights to pittsburgh) - may 2004 - september 2007 shuttle america (us airways flights to pittsburgh) - may 2002 - may 2004 boston - maine airways (to bwi and cumberland) - december 2001 - june 2003 chautauqua airlines (us airways flights to pittsburgh )
10 / 14 / 04 portsmouth herald: a u. s. district court judge has found that pan am airlines illegally attempted to transfer its passenger service to boston - maine airways with the intention of busting the airline pilots association union and has put a stop to that process .
local flights to bwi begin by scott butki scottb @ urltoken four years after losing air service to baltimore - washington international airport, hagerstown regional airport gained it again as daily air service from hagerstown to baltimore resumed friday. boston - maine airways of portsmouth, n. h. , a division of pan american, is taking passengers from cumberland, md. , to bwi with a stop in hagerstown through a route called the clipper connection. about 12 people used the service on the first day, said dan fortnam, vice president of sales for boston - maine airways .
saturday nonstop service between boston and st. thomas, u. s. virgin islands :
the january 1945 oag shows northeast flights to seven cities, ranging from boston to moncton. there were just four departures a day from boston and four return flights - nothing else .
the goal is to be [ on - island ] permanently all year - round, serving all three destinations ,
said dan fortman, vice president of marketing for boston - maine .
on page 84 of robert mudge' s adventures of a yellowbird, one finds an early tabulation of instrument flight landing minimums for boston, and its maine destinations of portland, augusta, waterville, and bangor. if runway lights were available, a night minimum was published. for boston, in daylight hours, the minimums were ceiling 300 feet, visibility 2 miles and at night, ceiling 600 feet, visibility 4 miles. keep in mind, that boston & maine airways was not instrument - equipped and those numbers were for aircraft and pilots that were instrument qualified .
business wire) - - may 9, 2001 the maryland aviation administration today announced that it has selected pan am affiliate boston - maine airways of portsmouth, new hampshire to enter into a contract for commuter air service between regional airports at cumberland and hagarstown, maryland and the baltimore - washington international airport .
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new pilots had to be checked out in the airline world of 1934 just as they have to be checked out today. not many pilots got their boston and maine airways check flight on a trip quite like that experienced by stafford a. short. he had flown with andy bean in an earlier flight enterprise. bean had been the third or fourth boston & maine airways pilot to come aboard and short elected to get his checkout with bean on a run from boston to burlington, vt. with 100% cloud coverage and limited visibility, bean elected to take the stinson trimotor off from boston' s airport, heading east into a wind off the ocean. short crouched just behind bean. as the plane ascended, it flew into solid fog. the only option bean had was to try to get some altitude
— pour les articles homonymes, voir pan am (homonymie) et pan. pan american world airways …
national airways made a similar operating agreement on october 27, 1933, with central vermont airways, founded by the central vermont railroad (owned by canadian national railway). national airways coordinated the two railroad - sponsored airlines as one, hyphenating the two railroad names and issuing joint timetables and fares. central vermont' s route extended from boston to new hampshire and vermont, and on march 20, 1934, to montreal, canada .
carl park and arnold butler launch granite state airways out of manchester, offering flying lessons and other aviation services .
airline industry information - (c) 1997 - 2004 m2 communications ltd pan am, one of the oldest names in us passenger aviation, has been closed by its owner guilford transportation and its services switched to the group' s other airline boston - maine airways in what 30 dismissed pilots called a' union busting' move .
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boston - maine is anticipating service year round, but it relies on the market ,
said mr. weibrecht .
the airline is not in direct competition with cape air. it is a good complementary service .
entire airline operated under contract by pan american airways, or
pan am
. beginning on august 1, 1931, pan am fokker f - 10a planes flew between boston and bangor, maine. from bangor, pan am flew sikorsky s - 41b flying boats to halifax, nova scotia, due to the lack of suitable landing fields .
the motion to revoke boston - maine' s dot air carrier certificate was brought by the air line pilots association. dot specifically cited the numerous instances where the airline' s officials had failed to follow federal laws and regulations and had filed false financial data with the department in its application for authority to fly large aircraft. the dot concluded that it would have never granted the large aircraft authority had it known of the false information filed by boston - maine .
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northeast airlines did not fit the mold of other early startup airlines. it did not partake of the rail - air, rail by night and air by day, experience. and contrary to a substantial segment of executives in the passenger rail hierarchy that saw no threat from air travel, northeast was founded as boston & maine airways by rail executives, and supported by their railroad, the boston & maine (b & m). b & m was a relatively small railroad serving northeast states so perhaps their management were
out of the loop
of major railroading and could be excused for their boldness .
two daily flights to san francisco international airport – the largest market from boston – using a boeing 757 - 200 aircraft .
— pan am redirects here. for other uses, see pan am (disambiguation). pan american world airways iata pa icao …
we are very excited about connecting portsmouth with martha' s vineyard ,
said boston - maine president dave fink .
offering a quick flight out to the island will be a nice alternative to hours in traffic and making reservations for a ferry .
the decision closes a lengthy review into boston - maine, which became the focus of a dot office of inspector general investigation in 2005 after submitting false financial documents to the regulator. the airline’s long - standing request to grow its boeing 727 operation was also suspended .
boston - maine has expanded its service elsewhere as well; its newest destinations include three cities in florida; freeport, grand bahamas and san juan, p. r. mr. fortman said travelers from the vineyard would most likely connect to southern routes in baltimore .
the january 2001 issue of boston magazine reported that fedex is again talking about using hanscom as a base for their delivery business .
we are here to take people from metro convenient airports without having to change in boston ,
said mr. fink .
we' ll just have to wait and see the news at their website in january i guess, because i' m sure they have a big plan for 2002. rominato i' m not sure, but you can check at pan am' s website urltoken and there is also a link the pan am clipper connection (boston - maine airways) and write to them because i' m sure they are !
u. s. air force grants special permission to northeast airways to resume operations out of manchester and offer three daily flights to new york .
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6 / 14 / 01 lexington minuteman: letter to the editor credits community involvement and participation for us airways decision to rethink their move to hanscom .
6 / 6 / 01 us airways, globe, wbz: us airways has decided not to serve hanscom field because of community concern over new flights. massport says it will focus on bringing more service to worcester airport, which is better suited for increased traffic. our concerns are being heard !
since us airways express ended year - round service shortly after sept. 11, cape air was the only airline at the vineyard airport until recently .
boston - maine is not the first airline to fly from the vineyard to white plains, but it is the first in recent memory to offer a set schedule. in the past, mr. weibrecht said ,
the destination has been popular, but the service has been spotty .
boston & maine (b & m) airways'' early success began with stinson trimotors, then turned to lockheed 10 & 12 electras. those electras had the new sperry gyro flight instruments that enabled flight in clouds. b & m renewed its competitive vigor by naming itself northeast airlines, then acquired its first boeing 727, and became the last trunk line to be authorized in the u. s. it was then bought by delta .
the dot also rejected the carrier' s arguments that it was not responsible for the company' s former general counsel and vice president' s filing of such false information (boston - maine had asserted that this individual had acted alone, without the company' s knowledge or involvement). [
boston - maine will initially provide service friday through monday, but will quickly expand to seven - day service beginning may 20. the airline may expand its destinations even before the 2002 season is over, said mr. fink: it is already evaluating the possibility of a vineyard - newark route .
delta is expanding in boston with new service to san francisco and nashville, as well as more flights to seattle and milwaukee. by the end of 2016, delta will be the only u. s. global carrier * to offer first class seating on every flight to and from boston .
a stinson model
a
this low wing trimotor differs markedly from the high wing trimotor stinsons flown by boston & maine airways. those earlier tri - motors had spars coming down under the wing to the fuselage. this tri - motor' s bracing spars come from the top of the fuselage to the wing. not long after these designs, the strength members to hold the wings on were inside the wing structure and wing spars disappeared on transport aircraft. (
the complete mastery of all but the cruelest weather conditions came rapidly for the newly named northeast airlines, successor to boston and maine airways. by world war ii, with their extensive knowledge of northward flight, northeast would be a leading airline in all aspects of instrument and cold weather flight operations. as part of this experience, northeast undertook contract flights for the military, added new planes equipped for weather and instrument flying, and became an experienced north atlantic rim airline .
andrews @ urltoken us airways' bankruptcy is not expected to affect the airline' s service from hagerstown to pittsburgh .
we don' t anticipate any impact to the schedule ,
said scott durgin, chief executive officer of shuttle america, which operates the us airways express franchise at hagerstown regional airport. if us airways planned to change its hagerstown service, shuttle america would already know, durgin said tuesday during a telephone interview from the company' s windsor locks, conn .
first passenger terminal opens. manchester airport plays host to another famous aviator when amelia earhart touches down in the queen city during a boston to montreal flight .
round - trip flight helps salute new service to bwi by andrew schotz andrews @ urltoken there was hoopla in the sky over maryland tuesday when a twin - turbo propeller plane flew from hagerstown to baltimore in 31 minutes and back to hagerstown in 21. the flights were two in a series of trips trumpeting the return of regional air service. buoyed by $ 2. 25 million in state money, boston - maine airways is operating the pan am clipper connection between cumberland, hagerstown and baltimore .
laurae @ urltoken maryland gov. robert l. ehrlich slashed a state subsidy for air service from hagerstown and cumberland to baltimore - washington international airport, possibly curtailing the service by the end of june. washington county lawmakers were not confident they could convince ehrlich to restore the $ 750, 000 that had been promised when the program began. flights on boston - maine airways' pan am clipper connection began a little more than a year ago with the help of $ 4. 25 million from the state over nearly two years .
5 / 22 / 01 usa today: us airways lost $ 269 million last year and $ 228 million in the first quarter of this year. its merger with united has stalled .
the stinson trimotors flown by boston and maine airways dated from an earlier aircraft generation. while the stinson pilot' s instrument panel was beginning to have part of the set of flight instruments needed for instrument flying, the ground over which they would fly had no radio aids and their landing fields had no lights. many fields had only a grass surface. north of boston, not even a light beacon system had been installed. this airline was a daytime operation. its planes were configured for the environment the airline had chosen to make its own. fortunately, the trimotor proved adaptable to the special conditions encountered because enroute and destination weather forecasting, and the communication of existing weather conditions were both still in a primitive stage .
employees cheered when northeast was certified to serve new york from boston in 1945. an
every hour on the hour
shuttle service between the two cities started in 1946 .
in the next photo from the beverly, massachusetts historical society collection, we see amelia with a number of ladies. she would accompany such groups on short flights over the then short routes of boston & maine airways. if she got the ladies comfortable with flight, the ladies would then approve flight for the family breadwinners, the husbands. completely logical thinking on the part of all those ladies, including amelia whose idea it was. incidentally, the lockheed 10 electra in the foreground of the earlier photo on this page is very similar to the electra in which amelia and her navigator were lost on the flight across the western pacific .
a third commercial airline has launched service to martha' s vineyard airport, joining cape air and the returning us airways express in serving islanders while providing residents and visitors with additional airports to fly directly to and from .
mudge' s title ,
captain ,
reflects the position he held with his airline, a
left seat
pilot. left seat pilots did not exist from the beginning. the 1933 aircraft fleet operated by boston and maine airways, the predecessor venture to northeast airlines, were stinson trimotors. this three - engine plane carried 10 passengers, but just one pilot, who sat in the middle behind the center engine in the nose. in my youth, i had seen pictures of fokker trimotors and there was even a ford trimotor, but i had never realized there was a stinson trimotor until reading captain mudge' s book .
“we’re seeing growing demand for business travel between boston and key markets like san francisco, nashville, seattle and milwaukee, ” said joe esposito, delta’s vice president–network planning. “we’re meeting that demand with our industry - leading operational performance as well as innovative products and service. and as boston plays a larger role in delta’s overall network portfolio, the local community should expect to see additional investments as well. ”
foreground above, a view of boston & maine airways' lockheed 10 electra loading passengers. photo again courtesy of the beverly massachusetts historical society. the 10 and 12 electras, each with their own series of alphabet modifications, a' s, b' s even e' s, were prominent in early airline development. as shown earlier, these models enabled their pilots to fly schedules that occasionally required instrument flying, a necessity if
schedules
were to mean something. trains were still the competition and trains met schedules. amelia earhart and her navigator disappeared over the pacific flying an aircraft like this. we will see her shortly, in a rare photo .
8 / 8 / 2007 globe: maine aviation aircraft charter, a portsmouth n. h. based jet charter service, plans to launch two daily round trips between hanscom field and morristown, n. j. , next month .
in later aircraft, the grouping of indicators has been greatly improved. but, this electra 10 panel (above) tells any pilot examining aviation' s progress that the electra instrument panel represented an important step forward for safe flight and especially for safe instrument flight. in the background of the next photo at boston' s airport, we see a stinson gullwing used by northeast airlines for executive trips and utility purposes. (robert mudge, author of
adventures of a yellowbird ,
and an early boston & maine / northeast airlines pilot, recalls flying their stinson reliant, a gullwing, to take senior executives and major stockholders on special trips. )
relief or letterpress: multicolor commercial aviation print. map of destinations in maine, vermont, new hampshire, and northern massachusetts; airplane (stinson sm6000) flies above top portion of placard; yellow, red and black ink on paperboard .
during world war ii, northeast' s experiences with frigid weather flying also proved invaluable. northeast pilots were the first to explore the arctic airways as they made air transport command flights to labrador, newfoundland, greenland, iceland and scotland .
additionally, delta will add holiday service between boston and fort myers from dec. 22 - jan. 2 using a two - class, 76 - seat embraer e - 175 aircraft operated by delta connection carrier shuttle america .
service to florida started in the mid 1950s, after northeast was awarded a temporary certificate to operate to miami / ft. lauderdale from boston, via philadelphia, baltimore, washington, dc, and tampa and jacksonville, florida .
— pan american airways airline codes | pa | paa | | was a united states airline that operated scheduled services in the eastern usa, as well as charters for tour operators and services to the dominican republic. flight international 12–18 april 2005 ] … …
on february 1, 2008, the u. s. department of transportation (dot) issued a show cause order (order 2008 - 2 - 3, dot docket number dot - ost - 2000 - 7668), concluding that boston - maine' s air carrier certificate should be revoked for three reasons: 1) lack of financial fitness, 2) lack of proper management oversight, and 3) lack of
compliance disposition ,
or willingness to follow federal laws, rules and regulations .
panamair and airwaysdc9, thanks for the information. here in new york state we are interested to see how this experiment in maryland goes. we hope it does well. small communities need all the help they can get. good luck to b / m airways .
hagerstown' s university project may survive a key round of budget cuts, but hagerstown regional airport' s new commuter air service took a hit thursday. a senate subcommittee recommended eliminating the $ 2 million subsidy for the flights that just got in the air dec. 28. even if the senate agrees to the cut, the house may restore the money because it' s speaker casper r. taylor jr.' s brainchild. boston - maine airways of portsmouth, n. h. , a division of pan american, bought $ 7 million worth of airplanes expecting to continue its service from cumberland, md. , and hagerstown to baltimore - washington international airport, sen. donald f. munson, r - washington, told fellow members of the senate budget and taxation committee .
it is of great importance to america that the pan american airways brought these great empires close to us. america someday will appreciate what it means to beat out the european efforts to get a foothold in south america. i want to say, too, that i was greatly impressed by the efficiency and management of the pan american airways system. this army of keen, alert, capable, young men at every point the system touches, functions like clock - work. i have never seen anything in management to excell it .
captain robert mudge begins chapter one of his story ,
adventures of a yellowbird
(' yellowbird' refers to northeast arilines' then new boeing 727 aircraft, painted yellow, to begin trunkline service from boston to florida) with this compelling sentence .
6 / 7 / 01 globe, concord journal, herald, lowell sun: follow - up articles on us airways decision to drop hanscom plans. also check out a resident' s letter pointing out the irony of massport' s claim that the recent process was not democratic .
scottb @ urltoken plans call for a year - old air service from the cumberland, md. , and hagerstown airports to baltimore - washington international airport to continue past june even if the state subsidy is eliminated, an official with the airline said wednesday. dan fortnam, vice president of sales and marketing for boston - maine' s clipper connection, and carolyn motz, hagerstown regional airport manager, said wednesday they are confident the airline will be financially self - sufficient by the time the current subsidy runs out june 30, the end of the fiscal year .
— infobox airline airline = pan am world airways dominicana, c x a. dba pawa dominicana logo size = fleet size = 4 destinations = 2 international and 2 domestic iata = 7q icao = pwd callsign = pawa parent = servair, s. a. company slogan = tu nueva… …
mexitli, what? you mean legacy airlines (formerly oneida) isnt fulfilling all of upstate ny' s dreams and aspirations of mohawk or empire reborn? (sarcasm intended) in all seriousness though it is nice to see a start up that has a plan and sticks to it. rominato, a friend of mine has an interview with boston / maine on january 9th so they' re obviously hiring. also if you look on their website at: urltoken and then click on
employment opportunities
there is a flight - crew listing there. good luck !
earlier this year delta committed to investing 1 percent of its pre - tax profits in the local communities where its employees live and work. as part of that initiative, delta will commit financial support to local organizations such as marine toys for tots and boston’s children’s hospital .
so, for a few installments, this will be discovery for me as well as for my website readers. the airlines were reasonably well established by the early thirties when the relationship of gannett and holderman began in a serious business mode. airline executives often went aloft in aircraft that were' corporate,' that is, were not in the airline' s passenger service, but purely a convenience for the airline executive and his or her important client. robert mudge is author of
adventures of a yellowbird ,
the story of the growth of northeast airlines, that originated as boston and maine airways, to be eventually bought by delta. mudge told me in an e - mail that before he became a pilot in the left seat of a northeast plane, he piloted executives of his airline, and the businessmen they did business with, in a company stinson
this photo of aircraft at the boston airport contains the two aircraft types in the gannett newspaper' s fleet in 1939. it is pure coincidence that two such aircraft ppeared together in the photo above used as an illustration in
the triumph of instrument flight
published in 2004 .
during world war ii northeast pioneered regular transatlantic service for the military under contract from the u. s. army air forces. after the war they applied for authorization to operate passenger service across the atlantic but were stymied by the civil aeronautics board, which awarded the routes to pan american world airways and twa .
in the 1950s and 60s, bangor was a destination for northeast airlines before its merger into delta. northeast usually used the dc - 6 for service between bangor and boston and new york. in 1965 there was still a single weekly dc - 3 flight to bangor operated by northeast airlines .
gannett was able to accomplish directly, as a publisher, what boston & maine airlines had to go to extraordinary lengths to accomplish in its founding years. robert mudge' s book ,
adventures of a yellowbird ,
tells how the airline enlisted amelia earhart to be their vice president of operations. she would not pilot their aircraft. she would not even direct air operations. she would use her considerable pilot prestige to obtain favorable press stories. she would focus on getting ladies to fly as passengers. then, she would urge them to then tell their husbands ,
it is ok to fly .
when reflecting on the piloting assignment in the stinson tri - motor aircraft, it became a minor curiosity to determine if the single pilot was called
captain
or simply ,
pilot .
both paul larcom at the beverly mass. museum, and david graham, an airport and air safety consultant and former navy multiengine patrol plane pilot, are sure that the man in control was called
pilot .
robert mudge' s
captain
title derives from twin - engine lockheed electra 10 passenger planes, boston & maine airways' second generation of planes. in twin - engined aircraft, the custom as originated called for the command pilot to be known as
captain
and fly from the left seat with a
co - pilot
in the right seat. the next illustration is a view from behind the pilot' s seats. perhaps, the american car and its road customs triumphed over the british motoring experience .
northeast pioneered service from its boston base throughout the new england states and into canada in the 1930s. by the time northeast merged with delta on august 1, 1972, its famous
yellowbirds
were jetting to florida, the bahamas and bermuda, and across country to los angeles, california .
5 / 2 / 01 globe, herald, lowell sun: us airways has become the third airline in the last two weeks to express interest in adding service at hanscom field. they hope to offer 3 daily flights from hanscom to philadelphia using 37 seat dash - 8 aircraft, and could start as early as august .
flying was news in those days. (1933) it was explained carefully (in the news) that the boston and maine airways had rules of safety which forbade flying in such weather. (fog) it was comforting, of course, for the public to feel the airline was governed by such a rigid set of rules; but this was far from the truth. rules, of course, did exist; but they were simply the rules that each pilot, individually, had learned by himself. the airline was run on pilot judgment - and that was all. rules would come, but only slowly and as experience demanded. for now, today, the rules of operations were only vaguely outlined in the minds of anderson and bean. (anderson and bean came aboard at the behest of a pilot named collins, who helped found the airline .) vague though they (the rules) may have been, they worked .
the carrier' s early flights were operated under contract by national airways, whose founders included paul collins, one of the country' s first airmail pilots; samuel j. solomon, a pioneer airport operator; eugene vidal, a west point graduate; and amelia earhart, the first woman to fly solo across the atlantic .
as air transportation flourishes, the parents of a derry teenager treat him to his first plane ride, a flight from manchester to boston. the boy is hooked instantly. later, the youth gets a job sweeping out hangars in exchange for flying lessons. his name is alan b. shepard, jr .
captain mudge put it this way in his adventures of a yellowbird :
the boston and maine pilots were professionals who had learned to approach new england weather slowly and carefully. at first they retreated, .... and watched and thought. then they began to approach more closely, observing all the while, not getting too close, for it might kill them - but as close as they felt safe - to see what made it tick. they learned to probe, while in their back pockets they kept in mind a sure way of getting out if they had to... ... good weather flights became practice missions for bad weather .
former service: - jetblue - airtran - us airways - america west (a hub was here before it closed in 2003) - skybus airlines (low fair airline that was almost cheaper than spirit. filed for bankruptcy in 2008) i’m not kidding on the cheap part, they had $ 10 airfares! - twa - eastern - lake central - piedmont
panamair said: additional routes anticipated for startup in early 2002 include naples, st. petersburg / clearwater, marathon key and orlando / sanford, florida, as well as service to nantucket, martha' s vineyard and cape cod from hanscom field in bedford, ma and other new england locations. nice to see the boston maine start up today. hopefully that will provide panam with additional feed to help their new bwi operation! does anyone have any idea when the remainder of the proposed cities will begin j31 service? it looks as though the plan, eventually, is to have 3 commuter
hubs
to feed the panam mainline. one in portsmouth, one in bwi, and one in sanford or clearwater .
fun fact: the largest commercial aircraft to land on a regular commercial service was from united airlines. united flew in their boeing 757 - 222 from chicago, il, making united the only carrier to utilize their 757 on their ord - mht route. they stopped flying in the 757 after the recession hit in 2008. us airways also occasionally flew in a 757 into mht from phl.
boston-maine airways ( bma ) was an american airline headquartered in portsmouth , new hampshire , united states . it operated scheduled commuter services under the pan am clipper connection banner . its main base was pease international airport . boston-maine airways ceased all pan am flights on february 29 , 2008 . 
boston-maine airways (bma) was an american airline headquartered in portsmouth, new hampshire, united states. it operated scheduled commuter services under the pan am clipper connection banner. its main base was pease international airport. boston-maine airways ceased all pan am flights on february 29, 2008.
boston-maine airways (bma) was an american airline headquartered in portsmouth, new hampshire, united states. it operated scheduled commuter services under the pan am clipper connection banner. its main base was pease international airport. boston-maine airways ceased all pan am flights on february 29, 2008.