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Colonial Airlines
Founded1928
Ceased operations1956 - Merger with Eastern Air Lines

Colonial Airlines was a United States airline from the 1940s and 1950s with bases at LaGuardia Airport (LGA) in New York City and at Saint-Hubert Airport in Montreal, Canada.

Early history

It was founded as Canadian Colonial Airways on 6 March 1928 to operate Foreign Air Mail Route No. 1 (FAM-1) from New York to Montreal via Albany, New York. Services began to Canada on 1 October 1928. The Fairchild FC-2 was amongst the aircraft types used.[1]

History

By 1956, Colonial's executive offices were on Park Avenue in New York City and it was flying Douglas DC-3 and DC-4 aircraft in scheduled service, including five daily nonstop DC-4 flights between LGA and Montreal. It also operated a nonstop DC-4 flight departing LGA at 11 am EST to Bermuda, arriving at Kindley Field 3:35 pm AST, with a "full course hot meal" served en route, its timetables advertised.[2] It also offered a DC-3 puddle jumper flight from LGA making an 11:50 am Monday-Friday flag stop at Poughkeepsie's Dutchess County Airport en route to Montreal and Ottawa, Canada, with intermediate stops at Albany, New York, Rutland, Vermont, and Burlington, Vermont.[2]

Merger with Eastern Air Lines

The airline operated until 1 June 1956, when it was acquired by Eastern Air Lines after a competition between it and National Airlines. A few years following the merger, many of the Colonials's more rural destinations were deleted from Eastern's route network.

Destinations served

Those airports marked with an asterisk (*) no longer have scheduled passenger air service.

References

  1. ^ Davies, 1998, pp. 100-101
  2. ^ a b "Colonial Airlines". Official Guide of the Railways. 88 (9). New York: National Railway Publication Co.: p. 56 February 1956. {{cite journal}}: |page= has extra text (help)


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