"Taking off shortly before 10 a.m. today in crisp, sunny weather over Ithaca Airport, 2 airplanes of Robinson Aviation Inc., headed southeast to inaugurate non-stop air service between Ithaca and New York....
The opening of passenger service brings to Ithaca an airline designed solely to meet the air transportation needs of this one community, Robinson said today.
...It is hoped, Robinson explained, that the New York run will be only one of a number of spokes radiating directly from Ithaca to other areas within the State of New York. A need for direct service from Ithaca to Albany is developing, [C. S.] Robinson said....
The service provided by Robinson Airlines also is quite different from the great long-distance high-speed operations employing the huge air transports of the future which have lately fired the imagination of the public, Robinson said. In contrast, Robinson Airlines has been developed exclusively to meet the equally great need existing for nonstop direct service over comparatively short distances to bring the advantages of air transportation closer to the everyday requirements of the average business man."

"Airline Opens Inter-City Plane Service," Ithaca Journal, April 6, 1945, 3.