Northeast Airlines

Northeast Airlines

IATA ICAO Callsign NE NE NORTHEAST
Founded	20 July 1931 (1931-07-20) (as Boston-Maine Airways)
Commenced operations	11 August 1933 (1933-08-11) (as Boston-Maine Airways)
Ceased operations	1 August 1972 (1972-08-01) (merged into Delta Air Lines)
Hubs	Boston New York–JFK
Destinations	See dDestinations
Parent company	Storer Broadcasting (1965-1972)
Headquarters	Boston, Massachusetts

Northeast Airlines was an American trunk carrier, a scheduled airline based in Boston, Massachusetts originally founded as Boston-Maine Airways that chiefly operated in the northeastern United States, and later to Canada, Florida, the Bahamas, Bermuda and other cities. It was notably small and unprofitable relative to other trunk carriers, being less than half the size, by revenue, than the next biggest trunk in 1971. Northeast was acquired by and merged into Delta Air Lines in August 1972.^[1]

From 1975 onward, Air New England was essentially a reincarnation of many of the New England routes of Northeast Airlines, complete with the aircraft Northeast used to fly those routes and Northeast's IATA code.