Cape Air

 

Cape Air is an airline headquartered at Barnstable Municipal Airport in Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States. Cape Air is the largest independent regional airline in the United States and carried more than 680,000 passengers in 2009, with new routes driving steady increases over time. Cape Air offers up to 550 daily flights system wide.

Main route

The airline flies to a number of destinations in Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, Florida & Caribbean and Micronesia. Flights in Micronesia are operated as United Express flights through a code share partnership with United Airlines. Flights between Hyannis and Nantucket, Massachusetts, are operated under the Nantucket Airlines brand, also operated by Hyannis Air Service, Inc.

Fleet

Cape Air"s fleet consists of 2 ATR 42-3320 and 69 Cessna 402.

The airline was co-founded in 1988 by company pilots Craig Stewart and Dan Wolf, and investor Grant Wilson. Initially, Cape Air flew between Provincetown and Boston in Massachusetts, but throughout the early 1990s new routes were added to destinations across southeastern New England to Hyannis, Nantucket, New Bedford, Martha"s Vineyard and Providence, RI. Services in Florida and the Caribbean were added in the late 1990s, and service in Micronesia commenced in 2004.

In 1994, Cape Air and Nantucket Airlines merged and now offer hourly flights between Nantucket and Hyannis. In late 2007, the airline began a new round of expansion in the Northeast and Midwest. Cape Air expanded into Indiana on November 13, 2007. The airline expanded into upstate New York in early 2008, following the sudden demise of Delta Connection carrier Big Sky Airlines.

The airline continued its expansion into New York when they started to fly the EAS routes out of Albany to Watertown, Ogdensburg, and Massena. Cape Air commenced service from Rockland, Maine, and Lebanon, New Hampshire, to Boston on November 1, 2008.