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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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commuter airliners. These larger turboprop aircraft joined the Air North fleet shortly before the
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marketing advantages that major airline affiliation offered.
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153:In April 1982 Air North acquired three
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570:Reagan National Airport
422:Dutchess County Airport
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1146:Amerijet International
1121:Alaska Central Express
412:Clinton County Airport
1535:Critical Air Medicine
1156:Asia Pacific Airlines
1151:Ameristar Jet Charter
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954:Denver Air Connection
522:Wilkes-Barre/Scranton
225:carrier on behalf of
132:Lake Placid, New York
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1439:Superior Air Charter
1419:Presidential Airways
1389:New Pacific Airlines
1059:Tropic Ocean Airways
999:Penobscot Island Air
994:New England Airlines
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608:Grumman Gulfstream I
247:Trans World Airlines
143:Grumman Gulfstream I
139:Grumman Gulfstream I
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32:Commenced operations
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55:Burlington, Vermont
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1236:Mountain Air Cargo
1131:Alpine Air Express
1106:Air Cargo Carriers
1079:Wright Air Service
1054:Tradewind Aviation
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108:Allegheny Commuter
104:Allegheny Airlines
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1261:Ryan Air Services
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288:Martha's Vineyard
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1359:Gryphon Airlines
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1344:Contour Aviation
1324:Alerion Aviation
1281:USA Jet Airlines
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1196:Everts Air Cargo
1171:Bemidji Airlines
1069:Vieques Air Link
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147:Rolls-Royce Dart
94:DHC-6 Twin Otter
78:Northern Airways
70:regional airline
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1251:Polar Air Cargo
1191:Empire Airlines
1176:Castle Aviation
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