New Airline?

[Citjok]

Just saw in climbto350.com a new airline based in MIA looking for a DO and a CP. Address is in TX.
Anybody knows?

 

[27 driver]

I was curious about that as well. Any info.

 

[Flying A320]

This might help,
http://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/stories/2008/04/14/story1.html

 

[boomlrd]

Oh, the insanity! Ha! I applied anyway, got nothing better going on.

 

[Citjok]

This might help,
http://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/stories/2008/04/14/story1.html

Interesting, but boy what a timing to start an airline.

 

[pilotyip]

Seventeen years after the last Eastern Air Lines flight, the airline is on the verge of a revival. But who will be in the cockpit is up to federal judges.
The lone employee of Eastern Air Lines, which folded in 1991 amid a bankruptcy filing, sold its assets and trademarks to an aviation industry veteran who's geared up to slap the Eastern Air Lines name on his new airline. But a challenge before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Appeal Board has been brought by a Pennsylvania businessman seeking to register the Eastern Air Lines name and logo for a new airline of his own.
Both parties have motions for summary judgment that could help them claim sole rights to the Eastern Air Lines trademarks. The winner could have an open runway for a re-launch of the aviation legend.
Eastern Air Lines was an economic engine in Miami for decades. Besides the nostalgia factor, bringing back the famous name could create a viable airline - possibly based in Miami once again.
Although it had about 35,000 employees before it entered bankruptcy in 1989 and folded two years later, Eastern Air Lines VP Ronald T. Bevans Jr. is the sole remaining employee. He is the steward of its remaining assets and trademarks, for which he signed a deal in late 2007 to sell to Aviation Capital Partners Group. That company is controlled by Edward Wegel, who started his aviation executive career at Eastern Air Lines in 1985. He has held executive positions at Atlantic Coast Airlines, BWIA, Chautauqua Airlines, Mesa Air Group and Travelogix.
Wegel, of Connecticut, said he hopes to restart Eastern Air Lines in Miami by summer 2009.
Bevan's attorney, Miami-based Steven Eisenberg, wrote in his motion for summary judgment to keep the trademarks: "After a short absence in its long and storied existence, under the leadership of well known aviation businessman Edward Wegel, Eastern Air Lines is preparing to return to the skies where, once again, it will fly passengers throughout the United States and the Western Hemisphere while at the same time recall the early days of commercial aviation and participate in its future."
The motion says Wegel has deployed significant capital and effort into a business plan to use the Eastern Air Lines trademarks for domestic and international service for passengers and freight. The original Eastern would have a continuing financial interest in the use of its marks and the success of its purchaser.

 

[CA1900]

... an aviation industry veteran who's geared up to slap the Eastern Air Lines name on his new airline...

Yep... dredging up old airline names worked so well for the last two that tried it...

 

[NEDude]

Yep... dredging up old airline names worked so well for the last two that tried it...

Don't forget the many different Braniff Airlines that flew in the 1980s.

 

[lookin4better]

Don't forget the many different Braniff Airlines that flew in the 1980s.

aaah .....at the end of every South Park!

 

[Jetpipeovht]

Hey now all the scabs can call it home again!!