Northeast Airlines was an American airline base in Boston, Massachusetts. It began as Boston-Maine Airways, which was founded as a Pan Am contract carrier on July 20, 1931 by the Boston and Maine Railroad and Maine Central Railroad offering service from Boston to Bangor via Portland. It flew only abortively until August 11, 1933 when it began contract service for National Airways, an agreement which lasted four years. It adopted the name Northeast Airlines on November 19, 1940.