The Eastern Airlines brand has made its latest comeback to
commercial flying.
The new Eastern is flying weekly Sunday service between New
York JFK and Guayaquil, Ecuador. The carrier will begin twice-weekly flights
between JFK and Georgetown, Guyana, on March 5, and says it eventually plans to
increase frequency on the Ecuador route with a weekly Thursday flight.
The old Eastern Airlines, a major Miami-based carrier,
ceased operations in 1991. In 2015, a new ownership group revived the brand,
flying scheduled charter service between Miami and Cuba. That operation failed
in 2017.
The latest Eastern iteration is the former Dynamic
International Airways, which changed its named to Eastern after emerging from
Chapter 11 bankruptcy last spring. Dynamic offered charter service alongside a
handful of scheduled routes, including flights from New York to Latin America.