Colonial Airlines

"Canadian Colonial Airways" redirects here. For the Canadian subsidiary, see Canadian Colonial Airways (Canada).
Not to be confused with Colonial Air Transport, a 1920s US airline associated with Juan Trippe.
Colonial Airlines
Founded6 March 1928
(as Canadian Colonial Airways)
Commenced operations1 October 1928 (1928-10-01)
Ceased operations1 June 1956 (1956-06-01)
merged into Eastern Air Lines

Colonial Airlines was a United States trunk carrier, a scheduled airline that operated from 1928 to 1956 with bases at LaGuardia Airport (LGA) in New York City and at Montréal/St-Hubert Airport in Montreal, Canada, before merging into Eastern Air Lines.