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Eastern Airlines (2018)

Eastern Airlines, LLC is an American airline headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri in the TWA Administrative Building. The airline operates a mixed fleet of Boeing 767 and Boeing 777 aircraft. Originally founded in 2010 as Dynamic Airways, the company rebranded as Eastern Airlines in 2018 following a successful bankruptcy restructuring and obtained a license to use the Eastern intellectual property from Swift Air.

Dynamic Airways was established by Dynamic Aviation with its first aircraft being a second-hand McDonnell Douglas MD-88 delivered a year before operations started in 2009. The airline officially started operations in early October 2010 after receiving its air operator's certificate.

The airline was headquartered in High Point, North Carolina, with its maintenance facilities based in Piedmont Triad International Airport.[citation needed]

Not long after the purchase of the second MD-88, Dynamic announced a three-year partnership flying for Hoda Air Services in South Korea. The deal, which included an MD-88 supported by a full crew, was the airline's first in Asia. The airline continued to expand more Boeing 767s were delivered, which were, according to the airline, available for ACMI wet lease, full charter, and corporate shuttle programs for private and government organizations.

In March 2012, Direct Air temporarily suspended its operations and canceled all charter flights, subsequently filing for bankruptcy. It ceased operations completely shortly after, having racked up millions of dollars in debts. The MD-88 was returned to Dynamic as a result. This 767 entered operations in early 2013.[citation needed]

Dynamic operated a successful wet-lease ACMI for EZjet, operating regular flights from New York City to Georgetown utilizing their 767-200. This operation ceased in 2012, prompting Dynamic's move into regularly scheduled services.[citation needed]

In February 2014, Dynamic Airways entered the Chinese tourism market with a significant operation of scheduled charter flights, capitalizing on the mid-2010s surge in Chinese demand for warm-weather island getaways. Between 2014 and 2016, the airline partnered with major Chinese travel agencies to offer flights from over a dozen cities — including Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin, and Chongqing — to popular island destinations such as the Maldives, Palau, Saipan, and Guam, operating up to 15 flights per month. Dynamic also launched charter services from China to Ontario, California, via a stopover in Anchorage, Alaska. However, facing declining market viability and blame for operational reliability issues, the airline exited the China market in late 2016.

Since 2014, the airline added "International" to its name to when it transitioned from a pure ACMI/charter provider to a scheduled and charter services airline. Dynamic started with the resurrection of the New York to Georgetown route in June 2014, competing with Caribbean Airlines and Fly Jamaica Airways on that route, the latter two flying the route as a fifth-freedom service.In 2015, Dynamic also added services from Fort Lauderdale, flying to both Caracas and Rio de Janeiro. In 2016, Dynamic added new routes from New York to the Caribbean and Latin America, commencing service to Caracas (filling a void left after American Airlines canceled that same route) Cancún, and Punta Cana, and entered both the Chicago and Los Angeles markets, with service from Chicago to both Punta Cana and Cancún, and from Los Angeles to Cancún and San Juan.[citation needed]

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