Marco Island Airways

Marco Island Airways
Founded	1972
Commenced operations	1973
Ceased operations	1986
Hubs	Miami International Airport
Secondary hubs	Marco Island
Fleet size	Five (1985)
Destinations	Miami, Marco Island, Lakeland, Florida, Bahamas.
Headquarters	Miami

Last updated August 10, 2019

Marco Island Airways is a defunct airline based in Miami, Florida, United States.

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History

Marco Island Airways was formed in 1972 and commenced scheduled flights in 1973 from Miami International Airport, with a maintenance base at Opa Locka Airport on the western outskirts of Miami. Initial scheduled services were flown between Miami and Marco Island on Florida's Gulf Coast. Services were added to Tampa in 1980 and to Lakeland, Florida in 1981.^[1]

The airline also operated contract flights, as Air Florida Commuter, but retaining the Marco Island color scheme, in the early 1980s with service to Key West and the Bahamas. The airline was acquired by Provincetown-Boston Airline (PBA) in 1984 and its operations were fully merged into PBA during June 1986.^[2]

Air Florida Commuter was the regional feeder network for Air Florida. Air Florida Commuter was not an airline, but a system of affiliated commuter carriers that fed traffic into Air Florida's hubs. In an arrangement commonly known as code-sharing, each airline painted their aircraft in Air Florida aircraft livery and colors and their flights were listed in computer reservation systems as Air Florida flights.

Fleet

The Marco Island Airways fleet initially consisted of Martin 4-0-4 twin-engine pressurized piston-engine 44-seat airliners (shown in heading image), five examples being operated as at March 1985.^[3] Examples of the smaller twin turboprop Beech 99 were included in the fleet in 1973. The Piper PA-31 Navajo eight-seat airliner was also operated in the early 1980s.^[4]

The Martin 4-0-4 was an American pressurized passenger airliner built by the Glenn L. Martin Company. In addition to airline use initially in the United States, it was used by the United States Coast Guard and United States Navy as the RM-1G.

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References

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Killion, S.D., The Martinliners, Airways International Inc, 1997, ISBN 0-9653993-2-X
Wilkinson, D., Airline Fleets 1985, Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd, 1985, ISBN 0-85130-123-1

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[2] Killion, 1997, p. 73

[3] Wilkinson, 1985, pp. 192-193

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