Northeast Airlines

Northeast Airlines

IATA ICAO Call sign NE NE NORTHEAST
Founded	July 20, 1931; 93 years ago (1931-07-20) (as Boston-Maine Airways)
Commenced operations	August 11, 1933; 91 years ago (1933-08-11) (as Boston-Maine Airways)
Ceased operations	August 1, 1972; 52 years ago (1972-08-01) (merged into Delta Air Lines)
Hubs	Boston New York–JFK
Destinations	See Destinations
Parent company	Storer Broadcasting (1965–1972)
Headquarters	Boston, Massachusetts
Founders	Amelia Earhart Eugene Luther Vidal

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.