Dynamic Airways at JFK Airport Terminal 1, in the former livery, registered N740JM 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. As the airline approached its second year of operations, its first
Boeing 767-200 was delivered, followed by the approval for another MD-88 to take to the skies. 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. A third 767 was delivered to Dynamic on March 6. This 767 entered operations in early 2013. 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. 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. By August 2016, however, all of the new routes except for the New York to Caracas route had been canceled and the Fort Lauderdale to Caracas service. Soon after those cancellations, Mexican low-cost carrier
Interjet began operating some of the canceled routes to and from Cancún. After summer of 2017, Dynamic withdrew from scheduled services and re-focused as an ACMI operator. In November 2017, Dynamic and its affiliated airline
Swift Air went bankrupt.
Eastern Airlines in a hybrid Eastern/
Swift Air livery, arriving at
Toronto Pearson International Airport in 2019 Dynamic exited bankruptcy, and with the rights held by Swift Air, renamed itself as
Eastern Airlines in April 2018. The airline's viability was to be based on route selection, mostly secondary locations in South America and China. But while the destinations were under-served, there may not have been enough demand to be profitable. The company applied for four non-stop routes, three international, from its proposed JFK New York hub. On September 1, 2019, the company moved its headquarter from
High Point, North Carolina to
Wayne, Pennsylvania. On January 12, 2020, Eastern Airlines completed its inaugural scheduled flight to New York from
Guayaquil,
Ecuador. During the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, Eastern Airlines operated extensive repatriation flights from Latin America to the United States. In coordination with the U.S. Department of State and local embassies, the airline conducted over 100 charter flights from approximately 15 countries, including Argentina, Peru, Ecuador, Guatemala, Panama, Guyana, and El Salvador. These flights brought back more than 17,000 U.S. citizens stranded abroad, with return legs occasionally transporting foreign nationals to their home countries. Eastern primarily used Miami International Airport as its arrival point. The airline’s repatriation efforts were among the largest conducted by a private U.S. carrier during the pandemic. By May 2020, Eastern planned to purchase several Boeing 767s, with at least five used 777-200s. Since late 2021, Eastern pivoted its focused to developing its cargo division and ACMI operations while gradually scaling back its scheduled services citing poor performance and low load factors. In May 2023, Eastern Airlines announced its plans to acquire charter airline
Hillwood Airways to enter the luxury charter market. It was officially purchased on August 15, 2023, but Hillwood continued to operate under its existing brand until it was renamed as
Eastern Air Express on November 13, 2023. The subsidiary plans to use its Boeing 737s, as indicated in the job vacancies on the website. In July 2023, the
New England Patriots filed a lawsuit against Eastern Airlines over an alleged breach of contract. Eastern had been the operator of the team's two Boeing 767s since late 2020 until 2024. In February 2024, Eastern announced that it had moved its headquarters from Pennsylvania to
Kansas City, Missouri, to be close to its cargo and overhaul presence at
Kansas City International Airport, and to create more jobs there.
Deportation flights Eastern Airlines performs deportation flights under contract for
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, to destinations such as
Brazil and
Venezuela. N225NE, a
Boeing 767 owned by the
New England Patriots and with team colors and logos, was flown by Eastern Airlines for deportations to
Honduras. ==Ownership==