Cape Air was founded in 1989 and has been operating successfully since then. Cape Air was founded by Dan Wolf who was a company pilot too. The initial destinations of Cape Air was between Provincetown, MA and Boston, MA. The service of this airline was liked by many and it gradually began to grow and expand to many newer destinations in United States and other overseas destinations as well. In places like Florida and Caribbean the Cape Air services started in and around 1990s and there was Cape Air service in Micronesia from 2004. Nantucket Airlines is the sister concern of Cape Air after its merging that has added to the increase in destination of the airline. Cape Air has now grown to become one of the largest independent airlines in the United States in the regional sector. It has been estimated that during the peak or busy season which is during the holidays and vacations, there are more than 800 flights daily. There are round trips to and from a destination due to the demand. The Cape Air services are subsidized by the Government sector in the Boston sector.
| The base of Cape Air is Hyannis, Massachusetts, USA. The major destinations covered by Cape Air is in United States Virgin Islands, Indiana, Micronesia, New England and Florida. The flights that operate from Florida and Micronesia are under the label Continental Airlines, as it has the partnership with this airline. Another name of the Cape Air owned subsidiary is the Nantucket Airlines. The Nantucket Airlines has services in the destinations in Massachusetts and Nantucket, Massachusetts and Hyannis. In the Barnstable Municipal Airport, Hyannis is the corporate head office of Cape Air.
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Cape Air has many hubs in and around the cities and they are places like Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport, Guam, Boston Logan International Airport, Boston, Massachusetts and the Tampa International Airport, Tampa, Florida.
The fleet of Cape Air consists of ATR 42-320 and Cessna 402C. There are two ATR 42-320 fleet that has 46 seats and the number of Cessna 402C is 49 and each aircraft has 9 passenger seats. The Cessna 402C has 43 aircrafts painted as Cape Air while the rest of the 6 aircrafts are painted as Nantucket Airlines. The destinations of Cape Air in Marina Islands as Continental Airways are Guam, Rota, Saipan. In Midwest the destinations are Indianapolis, South Bend and Evansville that are all in Indiana. In Florida, there is Sarasota, Fort Myers, Tampa and Key West. In Caribbean there are many destinations like the Tortola in the British Virgin Islands, St. Croix and St. Thomas in the United States Virgin Islands and in Puerto Rico, there is Mayagüez, San Juan, Ponce and the Vieques. The Cape Air destinations in the Cape and Islands are Boston, Hyannis, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, New Bedford and Provincetown. There are seasonal service at the Providence as well.
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