Colgan Air

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Colgan Air
IATA
9L		 ICAO
CJC		 Callsign
Colgan
Founded 1991
Hubs LaGuardia Airport
Logan International Airport
Pittsburgh International Airport
Washington Dulles International Airport
George Bush Intercontinental Airport
Fleet size 58
Destinations 49
Parent company Pinnacle Airlines Corp.
Headquarters Manassas, Virginia
Key people Michael J. Colgan (CEO) and Charles Colgan (Founders)
Website: http://www.colganair.com/

Colgan Air (IATA: 9L, ICAO: CJC, and Callsign: Colgan) [1] is a regional airline of the United States. Headquartered in Manassas, Virginia, its major hubs are New York's LaGuardia Airport, Boston's Logan International Airport, Washington Dulles International Airport, and Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport. It has been operating as US Airways Express since 1999 and now serves almost 50 cities in the Northeast and Texas as a feeder for US Airways Express, United Express, and Continental Connection.

On February 5, 2007, it was announced that Colgan Air will provide service for Continental Airlines out of Newark Liberty International Airport starting in early 2008. Colgan will acquire and operate 15 new Bombardier Q400 aircraft and the service will be marketed as part of Continental Connection.[2]

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Charles J. Colgan founded fixed base operator Colgan Airways Corporation at Manassas Airport in 1965. It began scheduled service under contract with IBM in 1970 between Manassas, Washington, D.C. and Poughkeepsie, New York. It expanded over the next decade and a half and was sold in 1986 to Presidential Airways.

After Presidential went defunct in 1991, Colgan and his son, Michael J., restarted the service under the name Colgan Air. It was established and started operations on December 1, 1991. On July 1, 1997 it became a feeder for Continental Airlines, operating under the name Continental Connection.

On December 11, 1999 Colgan left the Continental system and became exclusively a US Airways Express carrier, focusing its routes around major US Airways stations such as LaGuardia, Pittsburgh, and Boston. On January 25, 2005 it announced it would acquire additional Saab 340 aircraft and resume service as Continental Connection out of Houston.

On October 4, 2005 Colgan Air started providing flights for United Express flights out of Washington's Dulles International Airport. Initially serving Charleston, WV, and Westchester County Airport in White Plains, NY, Colgan has expanded its service to include State College, Pennsylvania; Charlottesville, Virginia; Allentown, Pennsylvania; and Binghamton, New York.

On January 18, 2007, Colgan Air, Inc. was acquired by Pinnacle Airlines Corporation for $20 million. Under the terms of the purchase, Colgan will continue to operate independently of Pinnacle Airline Corporation's major subsidiary, Northwest Airlink carrier Pinnacle Airlines. It is a strategic move by Pinnacle to get access to Colgan’s partners, Continental Airlines, United Airlines and US Airways[3].

NOTE: The city is listed in the Texas list as well, it borders a city in Texas by the same name (Texarkana, Texas; it can be classified as a "divided city" in Arkansas and Texas.

Saab 340B in US Airways Express livery
Saab 340B in US Airways Express livery

Colgan Air fleet
Aircraft Total Passengers
 Routes Notes
Raytheon Beech 1900D Airliner 11
 19 Operated by: United Express and US Airways Express
Saab 340B
 39
 30(USX/UAX)
34(CO Cnx)
 Operated by: Continental Connection, United Express and US Airways Express
Bombardier Q400
 15
 74
 Operated by: Continental Connection: to begin service in EWR Dec 2007

  1. ^ Airline Codes
  2. ^ [1]
  3. ^ Flight International, 23-29 January 2007


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