Eastern Air Lines (2011)

This article covers Eastern Air Lines , which was created in 2011 and will fly from 2015 to 2017 . For the airline of the same name, which was founded in 1926 and ceased operations in 1991, see Eastern Air Lines .

Eastern Air Lines
IATA code :	EA
ICAO code :	EAL
Call sign :	EASTERN
Founding:	2011
Operation stopped:	2017
Seat:	Miami-Dade County , United States
Home airport :	Miami International Airport
Management:	James Tolzien ( CEO )
Fleet size:	4 (+ 27 orders)
Aims:	international
Eastern Air Lines ceased operations in 2017. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation.

Eastern Air Lines was an American airline founded in late 2011 and operated from May 2015 to September 2017. It used the name and branding of the first Eastern Air Lines , which had ceased operations in January 1991.

history

The name Eastern Air Lines was acquired in 2009 by a group of investors led by Edward Wegel from the bankruptcy estate of the original Eastern Air Lines with the aim of offering flight operations under this brand again. For this purpose, the Eastern Air Lines Group Inc. , based in Miami-Dade County ( Florida ), was founded at the end of 2011, which sees itself as the successor to the first Eastern Air Lines , which existed from 1926 to 1991. The company received an Air Operator Certificate on May 13, 2015 and started charter flights between Miami and Havana ( Cuba ) on May 28, 2015 with a Boeing 737-800 NG . Other Cuban destinations that were chartered to are Camagüey and Santa Clara . Scheduled flights were scheduled to commence in 2016.

On September 9, 2015, an Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 came to the rescue of stranded cruise passengers in St. Thomas .

On June 5, 2016, Eastern Air Lines flew the body of Muhammad Ali on one of their 737s from Phoenix , Arizona , to Louisville , Kentucky .

On June 16, 2017, the merger with Swift Air was announced. The last flight under the name Eastern Airlines took place in September 2017, the permit was returned.

fleet

As of December 2015, the Eastern Air Lines fleet consisted of four aircraft with an average age of 13.4 years:

• 01 Boeing 737-700
• 03 Boeing 737-800

Orders

• 20 Mitsubishi Regional Jet (from 2019)
• 07 Boeing 737-800

See also

• Former Airlines List (America)

Web links

Commons : Eastern Air Lines (2015)  - Collection of images, videos, and audio files

• Website of the Eastern Air Lines Group ( Memento from July 20, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Ch-aviation - Swift Air to acquire Eastern Air Lines , accessed June 24, 2017
2. ^ Eastern Air Lines is to be resurrected , accessed January 31, 2014
3. ↑ ^{a b} Eastern Air Lines takes off for Cuba , accessed on May 25, 2015
4. ^ Business Insider, Eastern Air Lines Is Back After Being Gone For Over 20 Years , accessed March 11, 2016
5. ^ Source staff: Eastern Airlines Charter Picks up Carnival Passengers. In: St. Thomas Source. September 11, 2015, Retrieved September 9, 2019 (American English). 
6. ^ Muhammad Ali's body returns to Louisville ahead of memorial. Retrieved September 9, 2019 . 
7. ^ Ch-aviation : Fleet , accessed December 8, 2015
8. ^ Fleet age Eastern Air Lines , accessed December 8, 2015
9. ↑ Boeing : Eastern Air Lines Group, Inc. (USA) (English), accessed December 8, 2015