Morrisville, N.C.-based Midway Airlines has reinvented itself for the sixth time in its checkered history, this time as a US Airways Express affiliate flying Bombardier CRJs. The bankrupt airline that refuses to yield to seemingly impossible odds quietly returned to the skies once again on January 1, when it launched services between Raleigh-Durham International Airport, N.C., and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport with a single used 50-seat jet leased from Bombardier Services.
Both Midway and US Airways have assumed a curiously low profile since the major airline took a 31.5-percent equity stake in Midway in return for $2.4 million in startup funding and as much as $7 million for lease deposits on six CRJs. Although a US Airways spokesperson referred inquiries about aircraft delivery schedules to Midway, the regional airline’s CEO, Robert Ferguson, declined to respond to AIN’s requests for an interview.
