CommutAir
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CommutAir is a regional airline based in Plattsburgh, New York, USA. It operates under the name Continental Connection for Continental Airlines. Its main base is Clinton County Airport, Plattsburgh, NY. It flies mainly out of Logan International Airport in Boston, and Hopkins International Airport in Cleveland to destinations in the Northeast and Midwest United States.
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History
The airline was established in 1989 and started operations on August 1, 1989. It had a marketing affiliation with US Airways since its inception, but changed affiliations to Continental Airlines in December of 2000, when the codeshare agreement with US Airways expired. In July of 2001 the company announced plans to downsize their fleet and workforce by approximately half and begin a reorganization of the airline. In early 2002 the company began a "micro-hub" operation based in Albany, New York. At its high point in 2003 and 2004 the hub served the following cities: Allentown, Harrisburg, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Burlington, Manchester, Portland, Bangor, Providence, Islip, Hartford/Springfield, White Plains, Ottawa and Montreal all with a fleet of Beech 1900Ds.
In January 2003 CommutAir announced an agreement with Continental to feed the latters Cleveland, Ohio hub. Service was commenced on March 16, 2003 with service to Kalamazoo, MI and Elmira, NY. Two cities were added the following month and by August 2003 CommutAir served 12 cities from the Cleveland hub.
Services
CommutAir operates services to the following domestic scheduled destinations (As of December 2005):
- Indiana
- * Fort Wayne (Fort Wayne International Airport)
- * South Bend (South Bend Regional Airport)
- Kentucky
- * Covington/Cincinnati, Ohio (Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport)
- Maryland
- * Baltimore (Baltimore-Washington International Airport)
- Massachusetts
- * Boston (Logan International Airport hub)
- Michigan
- * Detroit (Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport)
- * Grand Rapids (Gerald R. Ford International Airport)
- * Flint (Bishop International Airport)
- New York
- * Albany (Albany International Airport)
- * Buffalo (Buffalo Niagara International Airport)
- * Elmira (Elmira-Corning Regional Airport)
- * Islip (MacArthur Airport)
- * Plattsburgh (Clinton County Airport)
- * Rochester (Greater Rochester International Airport)
- * Saranac Lake (Adirondack Regional Airport)
- * White Plains (Westchester County Airport)
- Ohio
- * Cleveland (Hopkins International Airport hub)
- * Toledo (Toledo Express Airport)
- Pennsylvania
- * Allentown (Lehigh Valley International Airport)
- * Erie (Erie International Airport)
- * Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh International Airport)
- * Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport)
- Vermont
- * Burlington (Burlington International Airport)
- * Rutland (Rutland State Airport)
- West Virginia
- * Charleston (Yeager Airport)
Fleet
The CommutAir fleet consists of 15 Raytheon Beech 1900D Airliner aircraft (as of December 2005).
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