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686: 92:, replacing or supplementing Mohawk's service at small communities in northern New York state and New England. These services connected Boston, Albany, New York and Syracuse, New York with Worcester, Massachusetts, Keene, New Hampshire, Burlington and Rutland in Vermont and the northern New York state cities of Plattsburgh, Saranac Lake, Massena, Ogdensburg and Watertown. Northern Airways' initial fleet consisted of the deHavilland Canada 710: 698: 208:
With Piedmont's new presence in the northeast, Brockway Air opted to join the Piedmont Commuter network in the spring of 1986. This move brought a realignment of Brockway's routes to better feed connecting passengers to Piedmont at Syracuse and other large northeast airports and brought Brockway the
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and additional orders for the B1900 turboprop were made by the new Brockway Air. By 1985, the fleet had been rationalized around the F.27 and the B1900 and service was further expanded through growth of the Binghamton hub (30 weekday flights by September 1985) and the addition of flights between key
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Co. of Brockway, Pennsylvania expanded its aviation holdings and engineered a dual acquisition of Air North and Clinton Aero, a regional airline headquartered in Plattsburgh, New York. Clinton Aero had been formed to operate to several small cities in northern New York state, replacing service
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which had acquired these turboprop aircraft new from the manufacturer. Air North adopted Swift Aire's green and white livery design and added the Fokkers' 48-seat capacity to the airline's expanding route network that by then included New York City, Philadelphia and Washington along with a
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The affiliation with Piedmont Airlines was to last for three years. In early 1987, Piedmont accepted a purchase offer from US Air and Piedmont became fully integrated into US Air during August 1989. Brockway Air's ownership was also to change as Brockway Glass was acquired by
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engines, the Grumman I-C was used by Air North on routes requiring greater speed and passenger capacity than was possible with the airline's Shorts 330s. Air North was one of the very few airlines to ever operate the Gulfstream I-C propjet in scheduled passenger service.
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The airline holding company which controlled Metro Airlines and Metroflight purchased Brockway Air in the summer of 1989 and changed Brockway's name to Metro Air Northeast. That move coincided with a new codeshare relationship with
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Air North ended its Allegheny Commuter relationship in 1979 and expanded service in New York state and New England into the early 1980s. The airline's fleet was also expanded with the addition in 1979 of 30-seat
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Destination information includes cities previously served by Air North and is compiled from various Air North and Brockway Air system timetable route maps which are referenced below.
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and Clinton Aero took place on October 1, 1984, and the new airline began operations as Brockway Air with the fleet receiving Brockway blue and tan liveries.
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banner and the airline's routes were once again realigned to better feed passenger traffic to TWA at New York's Kennedy International Airport and at Boston.
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of Texas. Metro Airlines had embraced code-sharing with major airlines as a growth strategy during the 1980s and had significant operations as an
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As Brockway Air expanded, the airline was increasingly in competition with larger airlines operating in the northeast region. These included
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connecting northern cities in New York state along with Burlington and Rutland in Vermont to larger airports at Syracuse, NY and Albany, NY.
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Headquartered in Burlington, Vermont, the airline began operating in the late 1960s under a marketing relationship with
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departedflights.com, June 1, 1984, Dec. 1, 1984 & Sept. 3, 1985 Brockway Air system timetable route maps
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Those airports marked with an asterisk (*) are no longer served by scheduled commercial airline flights
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commuter airliners. These larger turboprop aircraft joined the Air North fleet shortly before the
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in April 1972, Air North (the name that Northern Airways was then operating under) became an
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departedflights.com, Nov. 15, 1979 & Jan. 1, 1984 Air North system timetable route maps
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northeast markets such as Buffalo-Washington, Syracuse-Newark and Burlington-Boston.
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timetableimages.com, April 26, 1981 & July 15, 1984 Air North system timetables
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and the Brockway Air subsidiary was placed for sale, attracting the interest of
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Further fleet growth came in 1980 when Air North became an operator of the
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previously provided by Air North. Brockway Glass was also the owner of
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marketing advantages that major airline affiliation offered.
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Index

Air North
Burlington, Vermont
regional airline
Mohawk Airlines
DHC-6 Twin Otter
STOL
Allegheny Airlines
Allegheny Commuter
code sharing
Allegheny Airlines
Short 330
1980 Winter Olympics
Lake Placid, New York
Grumman Gulfstream I
Grumman Gulfstream I
Rolls-Royce Dart
Fokker F.27
Swift Aire Lines
Brockway Glass
Crown Airways
Air North
Beechcraft 1900
regional airliner
US Air
Empire Airlines
Piedmont Airlines
Owens-Illinois
Metro Airlines
American Eagle
American Airlines

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