Colgan Air

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Colgan Air
IATA
9L		 ICAO
CJC		 Callsign
COLGAN
Founded 1991
Hubs As US Airways Express:
LaGuardia Airport
Logan International Airport
Pittsburgh International Airport
As United Express:
Washington Dulles International Airport
As Continental Connection:
George Bush Intercontinental Airport
Newark Liberty International Airport
Cleveland Hopkins International Airport
Fleet size 58
Destinations 53
Parent company Pinnacle Airlines Corp.
Headquarters Manassas, Virginia
Key people Michael J. Colgan (President)
Charles Colgan
(Founder / Former CEO)
Website: http://www.colganair.com/

Colgan Air is an American fully certificated regional airline subsidiary of Pinnacle Airlines Corporation. Headquartered in Manassas, Virginia, its major hubs are New York's LaGuardia Airport, Boston's Logan International Airport, Washington Dulles International Airport, Newark Liberty 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 has acquired and operates 11 of 15 new Bombardier Q400 aircraft and the service is be marketed as part of Continental Connection.[1]

The headquarters of Colgan Air are located at the grounds of the Manassas Regional Airport.

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[edit] History

Saab 340B in Colgan Air livery
Saab 340B in Colgan Air livery

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's regional aircraft fleet will continue to operate independently of Pinnacle Airline Corporation's major subsidiary, Pinnacle Airlines' all regional jet fleet, which notably fly and operate in the livery of Northwest Airlink . It is a strategic move by Pinnacle to get access to Colgan’s partners, Continental Airlines, United Airlines and US Airways[2].

[edit] Destinations

[edit] As United Express

Unmarked Saab 340B operated by Colgan Air at Logan International Airport
Unmarked Saab 340B operated by Colgan Air at Logan International Airport

[edit] As US Airways Express

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

[edit] As Continental Connection

[edit] Fleet

Colgan Air fleet
Aircraft Total Passengers
 Routes Notes
Raytheon Beech 1900D Airliner 5
 19 Operated as: US Airways Express
Saab 340B
 42
 34 Operated as: Continental Connection, United Express and US Airways Express
Bombardier Q400
 11
 74
 Operated as: Continental Connection
 Based at EWR

Fleet:

[edit] References

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

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