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USAir
US Airways, as it is now known, started off in 1939 as All American
Airways. By 1953, it was Allegheny Airlines and it remained that way until
1979, when it changed its name to USAir. A pair of tragic crashes in the
1990s led them to change the name to what it remains today.
This airline has expanded largely through acquisitions. It picked up
Lake Central Airlines in 1968 and followed in 1972 with Mohawk Airlines.
More recently it has bought Piedmont and
Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) in 1988 and 1989,
respectively.
Slogans: "Allegheny is up to something." "There's
a change in the air."
Known Fleet: DC-9s, 737s,
A320s.
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N985VJ - an Allegheny
DC-9 as seen in Pittsburgh in February 1977.
Image courtesy of AirNikon.
Find more of his photos at Airliners.net |
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References:
Allen, Oliver E. The Airline Builders. Alexandria, Va: Time-Life Books,
1981.
Allen, Roy. The
Pan Am Clipper: The History of Pan American's Flying Boats 1931 to 1946.
New York, NY: Barnes & Noble Books, 2000.
Davies, R.E.G. Airlines
of the United States Since 1914. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian
Institution Press, 1982
Davies, R.E.G. Pan
Am: An Airline and Its Aircraft. New York: Orion Books, 1987.
Bilstein, Roger. Flight
in America: From the Wrights to the Astronauts, Rev. ed. Baltimore:
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.
Heppenheimer, T.A. Turbulent
Skies: The History of Commercial Aviation. New York: John Wiley &
Sons, 1995. |
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|  | Airline: USAir
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| | AKA: Allegheny, USAirways
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| | Location: US
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| | Status: Still flying as US Airways
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