{"id":1436,"date":"2016-06-14T04:37:38","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T09:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=1436"},"modified":"2016-06-14T04:37:38","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T09:37:38","slug":"cape-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=1436","title":{"rendered":"Cape Air service from Boston Logan Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Spotting <strong>Cape Air<\/strong> at Boston Logan Airport (from July 27, 2015).\u00a0As my wife and I waited to catch our first ever Jetblue flight in Boston a few weeks ago, we came across the gate space for commuter airline Cape Air. Since it was very late on a Sunday, there were some planes parked just outside the windows of the gate. The airline was started in 1988 by pilots Craig Stewart and Dan Wolf, and financier Grant Wilson fling between Provincetown and Boston. The airline expanded in the early 90&#8217;s with new routes across southeastern New England. Cape Air and Nantucket Airlines merged In 1994, offering hourly flights between Nantucket and Hyannis. The airline also operates commuter flights for United Airlines, American Airlines, and JetBlue. The airline\u00a0also operates special painted &#8220;Art In Flight&#8221; Cessna 402 aircraft paying homage to the regions and communities they serve with &#8220;A Whale Of A Plane&#8221;, &#8220;Fantasy Flyer&#8221;, &#8220;Where It All Began&#8221;, and &#8220;Green Machine&#8221;.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cape Air from Boston Harbor to Manhattan?<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">June 14, 2016. Getting\u00a0quickly to Manhattan from downtown Boston can be tough\u00a0task for the business traveler. No matter if you drive, fly commercial from Logan, or take the\u00a0Amtrak train, the commute will most likely take you\u00a0more than three hours. A faster solution may be on the horizon, however.\u00a0Following\u00a0two years of preparations, both Cape Air and\u00a0Tailwind are\u00a0testing seaplane flights using a nine passenger Cessna Caravan. The plan is to use the Boston Harbor for\u00a0takeoff and landing. If FAA\u00a0approval\u00a0is received, the two\u00a0companies could launch service by the end of the\u00a0year.\u00a0The two competing airlines both\u00a0claim that the demand is there for the new service.\u00a0In order for\u00a0the FAA to make an educated decision, they must coordinate with both city officials and the local Coast Guard.\u00a0Fares for the seaplane service are expected to run around\u00a0$1,000 for a round trip ticket. Be sure to visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capeair.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.capeair.com<\/a> to book your flights today!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1441\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/cape-air-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"cape air\" width=\"644\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/cape-air-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/cape-air-768x505.jpg 768w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/cape-air-1024x673.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spotting Cape Air at Boston Logan Airport (from July 27, 2015).\u00a0As my wife and I waited to catch our first ever Jetblue flight in Boston a few weeks ago, we came across the gate space for commuter airline Cape Air. Since it was very late on a Sunday, there were some planes parked just outside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[395,396,218,394,397,393],"class_list":["post-1436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-news","tag-boston","tag-harbor","tag-jetblue","tag-logan","tag-manhattan","tag-tailwind-cape-air"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1436"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1442,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions\/1442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}