Best Airlines

Greensboro/Winston-Salem/High Point, NC - Piedmont Triad International Airport (GSO)

Hartford, CT/Springfield, MA - Bradley International Airport (BDL)

Memphis International Airport, TN (MEM)

Nashville International Airport, TN (BNA)

Raleigh-Durham International Airport, NC (RDU)

Tampa International Airport, FL (TPA)

Palm Beach International Airport, FL (PBI)

The May 15, 1983 timetable indicated the airline served the following airports:

Buffalo-Niagara International Airport, NY (BUF)

Detroit Metropolitan Airport, MI (DTW)

Hartford, CT/Springfield, MA - Bradley International Airport (BDL)

Philadelphia International Airport, PA (PHL)

Greensboro/Winston-Salem/High Point, NC - Piedmont Triad International Airport (GSO)

Raleigh-Durham International Airport, NC (RDU)

Greater Rochester International Airport, NY (ROC)

The January 15, 1984 Best Airlines timetable lists the following destinations being served:

Alexandria, LA - Esler Regional Airport (ESF)

Atlanta International Airport, GA (ATL)

Buffalo-Niagara International Airport, NY (BUF)

Cleveland International Airport, OH (CLE)

Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, TX (DFW)

Detroit Metropolitan Airport, MI (DTW)

Hartford, CT/Springfield, MA - Bradley International Airport (BDL)

Greater Rochester International Airport, NY (ROC)

Service had been discontinued to Greensboro/Winston-Salem/Highpoint, Philadelphia and Raleigh/Durham by this time but had been added to Alexandria, Atlanta, Cleveland and Dallas/Fort Worth.

Their January 7, 1985 timetable lists the following destinations being served:

Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, OH (CLE)

Detroit Metropolitan Airport, MI (DTW)

Hartford, CT/Springfield, MA - Bradley International Airport (BDL)

Philadelphia International Airport, PA (PHL)

Greater Rochester International Airport, NY (ROC)

Syracuse Hancock International Airport, NY (SYR)

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. By March 4, 1985, the Best Airlines timetable listed one additional destination being served by this time, being Columbus, Ohio via the Port Columbus International Airport (now John Glenn Columbus International Airport) (CMH), in addition to the above six airports.

Route maps for the airline during the 1980s show routes and destinations being added and dropped on a regular basis during its existence:

The September 13, 1982 timetable shows two separate linear routings using aggressive schedules and short stops of typically 10–20 minutes. One DC-9 jet operated Cincinnati (CVG) - Buffalo (BUF) - Albany (ALB) - Hartford (BDL) - West Palm Beach (PBI) in the morning and the reverse route in the afternoon back to Cincinnati (CVG) where finally it did a late evening Cincinnati (CVG) - Tampa (TPA) - Cincinnati (CVG) trip. A second DC-9 jet operated Raleigh (RDU) -Greensboro (GSO) - Nashville (BNA) - Memphis (MEM) - Nashville (BNA) - Greensboro (GSO) - Raleigh (RDU) - Tampa (TPA) in the morning and the reverse route in the afternoon/evening.

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).

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.

The March 4, 1985 route map shows DC-9 service being operated nonstop between Philadelphia (PHL) and four different airports including Columbus (CMH), Hartford/Springfield (BDL), Rochester (ROC) and Syracuse (SYR) in addition to nonstop flights between Hartford/Springfield (BDL) and two different airports including Cleveland (CLE) and Detroit (DTW) as well as point-to-point nonstop service being operated Cleveland-Detroit and Rochester-Syracuse.

The September 1, 1985 route map shows DC-9 service being operated between Hartford/Springfield (BDL) and four destinations including Cleveland (CLE), Columbus (CMH), Detroit (DTW) and Philadelphia (PHL) as well as point-to-point nonstop service being operated Cleveland-Detroit.

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).

The airline appears to have had no more than three or four flights a day, and sometimes as few as one, from the airports it served. In 1983, 1984 and 1985, a hub and spoke connecting system was not operated and there appears to have been no clear pattern concerning their choice of markets.

During its operation Best Airlines operated 4× Douglas DC-9-10 aircraft. The airline also operated some Boeing 737.