Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler - Northeast FH-227 Routes Added JFK-BOS with 1 stop each

Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | Airline Operations | Northeast FH-227 Routes Added JFK-BOS with 1 stop each

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Charlotte, NC

1,286 legs, 1,796.2 hours
840 legs, 1,047.8 hours online
1,268 legs, 1,774.2 hours ACARS
31 legs, 49.6 hours event
3 legs dispatched, 2.5 hours

Posted onPost created on February 20 2015 08:58 ET by Andrew Vane

In 1969, Northeast Airlines was flying routes between JFK and Boston to serve smaller airports in Eastern Massachusetts. These included Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, Hyannis and New Bedford Massachusetts. Keep in mind these airports have extremely short runways and were designed for smaller aircraft. Eventually, Delta took over Northeast Airlines, and the FH-227 for a short time.

Schedule Database: NEH
Flight Numbers: 5500-5507 (2 leg trip)
Route: KJFK to (EWB or MVY) to BOS, BOS to (ACK or HYA) to JFK
2-Leg Distance: Varies from 183nm to 252nm

Andrew Vane (DVA2887)

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Las Cruces, NM

3,338 legs, 6,583.0 hours
3,269 legs, 6,426.5 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on February 20 2015 10:06 ET by Brian Donaldson

Yahoo..!! Thank you for your time and efforts to add these historic, fun flights. They really bring the history alive to our hobby. biggrin

Brian Donaldson

Senior Captain, B727-200

DVA5643
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Hampton, GA USA

1,914 legs, 2,888.2 hours
5 legs, 3.8 hours online
1,907 legs, 2,878.2 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on February 22 2015 00:08 ET by Jim Daigneau

Very cool Drew! Are you working on the other FH227 flights through ORH, EEN, LEW and AUG and the like? Just wondering.

Jim Daigneau (DVA5643)

Posted onPost created on February 22 2015 11:04 ET by Andrew Vane

I haven't gotten there yet Jim. I wanted to throw up a few initially when I added the aircraft.

Andrew Vane (DVA2887)

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Daytona Beach, FL

3,271 legs, 11,709.7 hours
2,885 legs, 10,250.1 hours online
3,142 legs, 11,149.0 hours ACARS
326 legs, 874.1 hours event
274 legs dispatched, 316.5 hours

Posted onPost created on February 22 2015 12:30 ET by Soonho Lee

Thank you very much for keep updating our schedule and the aircraft database!

Soonho Lee (DVA11591)

Posted onPost created on February 23 2015 17:18 ET by Jim Daigneau

Thanks again for all the work Andrew. THis is pretty exciting stuff. I'm working the PAH Latin American sched now.

Jim Daigneau (DVA5643)

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Leonardtown, MD USA

590 legs, 898.2 hours
256 legs, 415.2 hours online
585 legs, 885.2 hours ACARS
16 legs, 32.7 hours event

Posted onPost created on February 23 2015 23:33 ET by Michael Payne

Out west, there were several other F-27 carriers who ended up merged, eventually into Delta. The one I remember most is West Coast Airlines (first U.S. F-27 operator and served my hometown of Klamath Falls, OR), which merged with Pacific Airlines and Bonanza Airlines to create Air West (1968), which Howard Hughes purchased (making it Hughes Airwest). Hughes Airwest merged into Republic Airlines (1980), which merged into Northwest Airlines (1987), which, of course, was purchased by Delta (2008). The F-27 operators in this crazy chain were West Coast, Pacific, Bonanza, and Hughes Airwest. This would be an interesting heritage route nightmare - many of the cities served by these airlines in California were around 50 mi. apart.

Michael Payne (DVA9707)

Posted onPost created on February 25 2015 21:09 ET by Jim Daigneau

That would be fun...lots of cycles and even more fumn when the weather goes down. Nothing like those 8 leg days with all instrument approached to make a real pilot out of ya!

Tom Gibson has several great period scenery areas for California and other western states at calclassic.com

Jim Daigneau (DVA5643)

Posted onPost created on February 25 2015 22:44 ET by Andrew Vane

I flew CLT to ATL once a couple years ago in a DC-9-50 and after the arriving, spent some time talking to the pilot. He said he did 6 legs back and forth in one day and was utterly exhausted when it was over. I can't recall his name but a really nice pilot who took time to answer questions.

Andrew Vane (DVA2887)

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