About: Metro Airlines

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dbo:abstract	Metro Airlines, originally Houston Metro Airlines, was a commuter airline that was originally headquartered in Houston, Texas, United States,. Metro subsequently moved its headquarters to north Texas. The airline had an operational base located on the grounds of Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and also had offices on the airport property and in Grapevine, Texas. Metro evolved into an airline holding company with the acquisition or creation of a number of different airlines, including as the banner carrier (commercial aviation) operating feeder services for Eastern Airlines as Eastern Metro Express which was based in Atlanta, GA and Metroflight which operated American Eagle service from the Dallas/Ft. Worth Airport. The company filed for bankruptcy in 1993, and the assets were acquired by AMR Simmons Airlines. * Metro Airlines DHC-6 Twin Otter at DFW * Metro Airlines Shorts 330 at DFW (en)
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dbp:airline	Metro Airlines Inc. (en)
dbp:alliance	dbr:American_Eagle_(airline_brand)
dbp:bases	dbr:Clear_Lake_City_STOLport Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (en)
dbp:callsign	METRO (en)
dbp:ceased	May 1993 (en)
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dbp:destinations	See Destination sections below (en)
dbp:fleetSize	See [[#Turboprop fleet (en)
dbp:founded	1969 (xsd:integer)
dbp:headquarters	Houston, Texas, United States (en) Grapevine, Texas, United States (en)
dbp:iata	HY (en)
dbp:icao	MTR (en)
dbp:small	yes (en)
dbp:subsidiaries	See [[#Metro holding company acquisitions and subsidiaries (en)
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rdfs:comment	Metro Airlines, originally Houston Metro Airlines, was a commuter airline that was originally headquartered in Houston, Texas, United States,. Metro subsequently moved its headquarters to north Texas. The airline had an operational base located on the grounds of Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and also had offices on the airport property and in Grapevine, Texas. Metro evolved into an airline holding company with the acquisition or creation of a number of different airlines, including as the banner carrier (commercial aviation) operating feeder services for Eastern Airlines as Eastern Metro Express which was based in Atlanta, GA and Metroflight which operated American Eagle service from the Dallas/Ft. Worth Airport. The company filed for bankruptcy in 1993, and the assets were acqui (en)
rdfs:label	Metro Airlines (en)
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