Eastern Airlines (Express) DC-3

[T-Bird76]

So I was BSing around on A.net and I came across this....

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0076617/L/

Eastern farmed out lift to PBA on DC-3's in the late 80s? I was shocked to see this. Eastern even then was still a large U.S Airline and to think they used a regional airline that had DC-3s is just wild! I couldn't imagine buying a ticket on a mainline U.S Airline in the late 80s and then flying on a DC-3, that's just wild to me!!! Does anyone know what routes they did?

[Matt Molnar]

Wow, insane.

[NIKV69]

Damn that is nuts. What a classic. My dad may know the routes. Got a call into him.

[RDU-JFK]

Wow, great find!

[cancidas]

wait a second, i think i just heard spellman saying that's a fake and never existed... :borat:

[NIKV69]

Found a blog of some guy who worked for PBA at that time and he said PBA operated the DC3s as COEX and EALEX with flights from Boston to Cape Cod and Miami to the the keys. Will call dad now and see if he has any more info.

[Mateo]

Used to see these all the time at Nantucket/ACK in the late 80s.

[LGA777]

MIA to the Fla Keys is what I remember. I think this was a very limited operation with just a handful of aircraft. When it was plain old PBA the 3'S flew all over their system both in Florida and New England.

Regards

LGA777