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Suburban Air Freight to fly for Pet Airways

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Suburban Air Freight operates under the Subair.com name. Beech 1900C N719GL rests on the Lincoln ramp before additional Pet Airways sub-titles were added. Copyright Photo: Gary R. Schenaman.

Suburban Air Freight operates under the Subair.com name. Beech 1900C N719GL rests on the Lincoln ramp before additional Pet Airways sub-titles were added. Copyright Photo: Gary R. Schenaman.

Suburban Air Freight (subair.com) (Omaha) will operate a Beech (Raytheon) 1900C (N719GL, msn UB-19) for Pet Airways. Subair.com operates 1900Cs, Beech 99s, Cessna 208Bs and Aero Commanders 680FLs. Pet Airways will start operations on July 14 between New York, Washington, Chicago, Denver and Los Angeles transporting only pets as we previously reported. Fares range from $149 to $299 one-way for the fur friends. Pet Airways is already fully booked for the first two months!

Air Ethiopia starts operations

Air Ethiopia (Addis Ababa) commenced charter operations earlier this month with a 19-seat Beech 1900C (ET-AMX). Scheduled flights to Bahir Dar and Mekelle will be added later this month.

Colgan Air retires its last Beech 1900D

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Please click on photo for full view and caption.

Please click on photo for full view and caption.

Colgan Air (2nd) (Manassas) retired its last two Beech (Raytheon) 1900Ds in February. The company started operating the Beech 1900C in August 1992. Besides its own operations it operated the two types as a Continental Connection and US Airways Express carrier. Today Colgan operates 14 Bombardier DHC-8-402s (Q400s) for Continental and 34 SAAB 340Bs for Continental, United and US Airways. Six SAABs were retired in the fourth quarter of 2008.