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2020 - Bought 20% of LATAM Airlines Group; Eastern Air Lines. 1956 - Merged with Colonial Airlines; 1967 - Merged with Mackey Airlines [9] 1986 - Purchased by Texas International, but continues to operate separately as Eastern Airlines; 1990 - American Airlines purchased Eastern's routes from Miami to Latin America and the Caribbean; Florida ...
Eastern bought the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar and Airbus A300 widebody jets; the former would become known in the Caribbean as El Grandote (the huge one). Although Eastern had purchased four 747s, the delivery slots were sold to Trans World Airlines when Eastern decided to purchase the L-1011.
In May 2023, Eastern Airlines announced its plans to acquire charter airline Hillwood Airways to enter the luxury charter market. [15] It was officially purchased on August 15, 2023, but Hillwood continued to operate under its existing brand [ 16 ] until it was renamed as Eastern Air Express on November 13, 2023. [ 17 ]
An Eastern Air Lines Boeing 737-800 taxiing at JFK Airport in 2015. The ownership group, Eastern Air Lines Group, purchased the intellectual property, including trademarks, of the original Eastern Air Lines in 2009, and announced in early 2014 that it had filed an application with the United States Department of Transportation for a certificate of public convenience and necessity, which would ...
Bought out by Western Air Express. Wien Air Alaska: 1927: November 23, 1984 United States: First airline in Alaska. MacRobertson Miller Airlines: 1927: 1993 Australia: Absorbed into Ansett. Paul R. Braniff, Inc. May 29, 1928: March 1929 United States: First Braniff brothers airline entity that operated scheduled service between Oklahoma City ...
He managed Continental Airlines and Texas International Airlines between 1972 and 1990, through airline deregulation. Lorenzo also led the creation and management of the holding company for the group, Texas Air Corporation , through which New York Air was formed in 1980 and Eastern Air Lines was acquired in 1986, as well as Frontier Airlines ...
Eastern Airlines’ headquarters will be located near Kansas City International and is among a handful of airlines that have operated out of the city. Eastern Airlines isn’t the first airline to ...
A Trump Shuttle Boeing 727-100 in 1989. Trump Shuttle, Inc. was an airline owned by Donald Trump from 1989 to 1992. The landing rights and some of the physical assets necessary to operate the shuttle flights were originally part of Eastern Air Lines and known as the Eastern Air Lines Shuttle.