Southeastern Commuter Airlines

♦ Southeastern Airlines (ii) originally operated as Coastal Air, starting operations in 1975. Renamed to Southeastern Commuter Airlines in 1976 and in the same year dropped the ‘Commuter’. The Atlanta based airline merged into ASA on 01Apr1983

[ – ASA was incorporated on 12/Mar/1979 by George Pickett, John Beiser and Robert Priddy & started operations on 27/Jun/1979. Acquired SOUTHEASTERN AIRLINES in 1983. First operator of Emb-120 Brasilia in 1985. Feeder for Delta Airlines. Merged into ExpressJet]

[ – The origins of ExpressJet Airlines were in a group of small commuter airlines acquired by Texas Air Corporation / Continental Airlines. These included Bar Harbor Airlines in Maine, Provincetown-Boston Airlines in New England, Rocky Mountain Airways in Denver, Colorado, and Britt Airways in Terre Haute, Indiana. The airline was established in 1986 and started operations in 1987. On 22/Nov/2011, both Atlantic Southeast and ExpressJet gained approval from the FAA for a single operating certificate that would allow them to operate as a single carrier under the ExpressJet name making ExpressJet the largest regional airline in the world with more than 400 aircraft. After passenger demand sharply declined due to the coronavirus, and United Airlines decided to consolidate its regional flying with another carrier, ExpressJet ceased operations as a United Express partner on 30/Sep/2020. ExpressJet was poised for a service relaunch for point-to-point destinations where commercial air service was lost due to the Covid-19 pandemic in Jan2021. ExpressJet restarted operations with a new leisure brand: aha! The name is short for air, hotel and adventure. aha! flights began on 24Oct2021 with an inaugural flight from Reno to Pasco/Tri-Cities. ExpressJet restarted operations with a new leisure brand: aha! The name is short for air, hotel and adventure. aha! flights began on 24Oct2021 with an inaugural flight from Reno to Pasco/Tri-Cities. ExpressJet Airlines will enter into court-supervised liquidation in the coming weeks after filing for US Chapter 11 and suspending all operations under its aha! brand as of 23Aug2022 > ]

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