Best Airlines

A diagonal cheatline with orange, yellow, and red stripes divided a white top from a blue bottom.

It lists Best as an FAA regulated Part 121 air carrier established on June 28, 1982, with headquarters located at 207 Grandview Dr., Ft. Mitchell, KY, 41017.

The airline's president is listed as William C. Yung, and its executive vice-president as C. Michael Dacy, and its treasurer as James W. Thelen.

Their January 7, 1985 timetable[5] lists the following destinations being served: Service to Alexandria, Atlanta, Buffalo and Dallas/Fort Worth had been dropped by this time but had been reinstated to Philadelphia with Syracuse also being added.

[7] The March 1983 Best Airlines route map shows DC-9 jet service being flown nonstop between Philadelphia (PHL) and four different airports including Detroit (DTW), Greensboro/Winston-Salem/High Point (GSO), Hartford/Springfield (BDL) and Raleigh/Durham (RDU) as well as a linear service being operated on a routing of Hartford/Springfield (BDL) - Buffalo (BUF) - Detroit (DTW) - Cleveland (CLE).

[8] The May 1, 1984 route map for the airline shows DC-9 jet service being flown nonstop between Hartford/Springfield (BDL) and four different airports including Buffalo (BUF), Cleveland (CLE), Detroit (DTW) and Rochester (ROC) as well as nonstop service between Atlanta (ATL) and three small cities including Alexandria, LA (ESF), Gulfport/Biloxi, MS (GPT) and Roanoke, VA (ROA) with this same route map also showing point-to-point nonstop service being operated Buffalo-Rochester, Buffalo-Detroit, Detroit-Cleveland and Alexandria-Gulfport/Biloxi.

[11] By 1988, Best was flying DC-9 service on a routing of Atlanta (ATL) - Roanoke (ROA) - New York Newark Airport (EWR) according to the Official Airline Guide (OAG).