Endeavor Air
| Endeavor Air Inc. | |
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| IATA code : | 9E |
| ICAO code : | it |
| Call sign : | ENDEAVOR |
| Founding: | 1985 |
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Minneapolis , United States
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| Home airport : | Minneapolis-Saint Paul |
| Company form: | Corporation |
| IATA prefix code : | 430 |
| Management: | Philip H. Trenary ( CEO ) |
| Number of employees: | 4204 (2008) |
| Sales: | 864 790 000 US $ (2008) |
| Passenger volume: | 2.62 million (2008) |
| Alliance : | SkyTeam (via Delta Air Lines) |
| Fleet size: | 176 |
| Aims: | national and continental |
| Website: | www.endeavorair.com |
Endeavor Air (formerly Pinnacle Airlines and Express Airlines I ) is an American airline based in Minneapolis and based at Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport . It operates regional and feeder flights for Delta Air Lines under the Delta Connection brand .
Pinnacle Airlines has been a subsidiary of Delta Air Lines since May 2013 . Its sister company Mesaba Airlines was integrated into Pinnacle Airlines in 2012, the second sister company Colgan Air dissolved in the same year.
history
Express Airlines I
Endeavor Air was founded in 1985 as Express Airlines I to provide flight connections as a codeshare regional airline to the major hubs. Express I began a codeshare agreement with Republic Airlines in 1985 . Republic was the dominant airline in Memphis, but also wanted to serve more connections to smaller airports while keeping their Douglas DC-9 free for longer routes. From June 1985 Express I started with BAE Jetstream 31 connections to three cities. Within six months, Express I served ten routes with nine Jetstream 31s and two Saab 340s .
From December 1985 an agreement with Republic Airlines made it possible to take up further connections from the Minneapolis-Saint Paul hub. In the first year of cooperation, Republic served up to 32 routes with 20 Jetstream 31s and two Saab 340s. In the spring of 1986, Northwest Airlines announced its intention to take over Republic. The following reviews and ratifications by the shareholders dragged on until October 1986. Then came the takeover of Republic Airlines.
Over the next decade, Express I expanded its route network to 56 cities in the Southwest and North Midwest. In 1997, Northwest Airlines decided to change the structure of Express I, which had been privately owned until then, and took over the airline. On April 1, 1997, Express I became a subsidiary of Northwest Airlines . To streamline the route network, Express I left the Minneapolis-Saint Paul hub and focused on the Memphis hub.
In August 1997, Express I moved all departments to its new headquarters in Memphis. In May 1999, Northwest announced that Express I would be the first-time customer for the Bombardier CRJ . At least 42 CRJs were deployed for Northwest Jet Airlink. In June 2001 the first CRJ flew from Greenville to Spartanburg , South Carolina .
Express I expanded with further departments, such as maintenance, servicing and repair for the CRJ machines. For this purpose, the first maintenance base with a hall for four CRJ was set up in Knoxville (Tennessee) , Tennessee . Additional maintenance bases are located in South Bend and Fort Wayne , Indiana .
Pinnacle Airlines
On May 8, 2002, Express I changed its name to Pinnacle Airlines. The call sign was "Flagship" because "Pinnacle" already by a charter company from Arkansas was busy. In November 2003, Pinnacle Airlines became a public company .
In January 2007 Pinnacle announced the purchase of the then independent Colgan Air . The purchase was of a strategic nature in order to gain access to their partners Continental Airlines , United Airlines and US Airways . Northwest and Pinnacle signed a new flight service agreement in December for the use of 124 CRJ200s, with the permission to operate some of the missions with the CRJ400.
In January 2008, Pinnacle became an independent company again through the repurchase of Northwest Class A shares.
As of January 2008, Pinnacle also received permission to operate other airlines. The launch took place through the new Colgan Air subsidiary of Newark Liberty International Airport under the colors of Continental Connection for Continental Airlines . With Continental Connection, Colgan Air also flies from George Bush Intercontinental Airport with Saab 340 to cities in Texas , Louisiana and Arkansas. Under the new agreement, Colgan Air plans to take off from Newark with De Havilland DHC-8-400 . One of the new targets was in collaboration with the Canadian airline Porter Airlines of Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport .
On April 30, a 10-year agreement was signed with Delta Air Lines for the use of 16 Bombardier CRJ900s . The planes flying under the colors of the Delta Connection were stationed in Atlanta .
Pinnacle filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on April 1, 2012, but did not cease operations.
The US Federal Aviation Administration imposed a fine of 275 thousand dollars on January 7, 2013, because between October 25 and 27, 2010, eleven flights were carried out with an aircraft that did not have a necessary spare part installed in the turbine would have.
Also in January 2013, Delta Air Lines announced that it would take over Pinnacle Airlines in full. The bankruptcy court then gave its official approval as part of the presentation and approval of a financial plan on April 17, 2013. Part of this plan included cuts in employee salaries and the gradual return of the Bombardier CRJ200 aircraft to Delta Air Lines, as they are not economically operated could. Normally, Pinnacle Airlines would have to pay a fine for this, but Delta waives this. Pinnacle Airlines will also expand the Bombardier CRJ900 fleet operated for Delta Connection .
Endeavor Air
Upon leaving the bankruptcy, the name was changed to Endeavor Air and the headquarters relocated to Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport .
Destinations
Endeavor Air mainly flies to regional destinations for Delta Air Lines from Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport . Other hubs are the Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport and the John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. In total, Endeavor Air connects over 110 cities in 39 US states and Canadian provinces with over 800 daily flights. Until the complete takeover by Delta Air Lines, hubs were also operated at Hartsfield – Jackson Atlanta International Airport and Memphis Airport .
fleet
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As of April 2020, Endeavor Air's fleet consists of 167 aircraft with an average age of 11.8 years:
| Aircraft type | number | ordered | Remarks | Seats | Average age
(April 2020) |
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| Bombardier CRJ200 | 42 | 16.2 years | |||
| Bombardier CRJ700 | 14th | 17.0 years | |||
| Bombardier CRJ900 | 120 | 9.7 years | |||
| total | 176 | - | 11.8 years |
Incidents
- On October 14, 2004, Pinnacle Airlines Flight 3701 a CRJ200 from Little Rock, Arkansas to Minneapolis, Minnesota suffered a flame out . When the machine crashed, the captain and the copilot were killed. According to the results of the NTSB investigation, the main reason for this was the lack of professionalism on the part of the crew, who were responsible for the explosion and who only declared an air emergency 16 minutes after the incident.
See also
Web links
- Website of Endeavor Air (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Pinnacle Airlines Corp. - 2009 Fourth Quarter Earnings ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) February 18, 2010
- ^ Reuters.com: Pinnacle Airlines flies into bankruptcy , April 2, 2012
- ↑ faa.gov - FAA Proposes $ 275,000 Civil Penalty Against Pinnacle Airlines Inc. (English), January 7, 2013
- ↑ online.wsj.com - Judge Approves Deals Between Pinnacle, Delta Air (English), January 16, 2013
- ↑ skift.com - Pinnacle to fly exclusively for Delta upon leaving bankruptcy (English), April 21, 2013
- ↑ ch-aviation.ch - Pinnacle Airlines to leave Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection shortly (English), April 19, 2013
- ↑ a b Endeavor Air Fleet Details and History. In: planespotters.net. April 23, 2020, accessed on April 23, 2020 .
- ↑ Aviation Safety Network, Accident Report CRJ200, N8396A
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