US Airways
US Airways, Inc. was an airline[6][7][8] that used to be owned by the US Airways Group, Inc. US Airways was previously known as USAir. It was the sixth largest airline in the United States. Its headquarters were in Tempe, Arizona. US Airways owned 357 large jet aircraft and 329 smaller planes that flew to 240 places in North America, Central America, the Caribbean, Hawaii, and Europe. In May 2008, US Airways had 36,632 people working for them in the world and flew 3,512 flights each day. The US in US Airways stands for United States.
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| Founded | 1937 (as All American Aviation) | |||
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| Commenced operations | 1939 1979 (as USAir) | |||
| Ceased operations | October 17, 2015 (became American Airlines) | |||
| AOC # | AALA025A[1] | |||
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| Frequent-flyer program | Dividend Miles | |||
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| Destinations | 193 | |||
| Company slogan | The new American is arriving. (final slogan – see article) | |||
| Parent company | US Airways Group (now known as American Airlines Group) | |||
| Headquarters | Tempe, Arizona, United States[4] | |||
| Key people | Doug Parker, CEO[5] | |||
| Website | Archived official website at the Wayback Machine (archive index) | |||
Flights
US Airways had many flights from Charlotte, North Carolina, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Phoenix, Arizona. US Airways also ran smaller numbers of flights from Washington, DC, Las Vegas, Nevada, New York City, and Boston, Massachusetts.[9]
Affiliates
The airline also had the US Airways Shuttle. It's a brand which operates frequent flights between cities in the northeast part of the United States. Other companies operate short flights for US Airways, which are called US Airways Express. After the AA combination, the brand is now known as the "American Shuttle".
History
In 2005, US Airways combined with America West Airlines, but they kept the US Airways name.[6][7][8]
In 2013, US Airways announced it was going to be combined with American Airlines. [10] The combination was completed on April 8, 2015, [11] with the new airline keeping the "American Airlines" name. [12] US Airways had it's last flight on October 16, 2015. [13]
Gallery
A US Airways Boeing 737 landing at Boston.
Boeing 737-301 livery in post merger Piedmont USAir hybrid
USAir then US Airways headquarters in Crystal City
Before they were USAir they were Allegheny Airlines
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US Airways Media
Douglas DC-9 in USAir livery, used from 1989 to 1997
Boeing 737-200 in MetroJet livery (1998–2001)
Boeing 767-200 in Pre-America West merger livery
US Airways operations in Pittsburgh following hub elimination (2007)
US Airways 737-300 at Phoenix Sky Harbor Concourse A-Terminal 4 (2008)
Coast Guard video (8:07 long) of the crash and rescue; splashdown is at 3:31:02 pm
US Airways headquarters in Tempe, Arizona, formerly the America West Airlines headquarters until AWA's acquisition of US Airways assets and brand name
US Airways Airbus A320
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References
- ↑ "Airline Certificate Information – Detail View". av-info.faa.gov. Federal Aviation Administration. May 12, 2015. Archived from the original on July 13, 2015. Retrieved January 17, 2019.
Certificate Number AALA025A
- ↑ Reed, Ted (March 20, 2013). "US Airways Declares National Airport a Hub at Senate Hearing". TheStreet.com. Retrieved October 22, 2015.
- ↑ "US Airways to join oneworld on March 31, 2014". The Wall Street Journal. December 9, 2013. http://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-20131209-905514.html?dsk=y.
- ↑ "US Airways - Phone/email". usairways.com. Retrieved April 3, 2015.
- ↑ "American Airlines and US Airways Announce Post-Merger Management Team". frequentbusinesstraveler.com. Retrieved April 3, 2015.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "January 2008 Passenger Airline Employment Up 3.4 Percent from January 2007, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, March 16, 2008". Archived from the original on August 30, 2009. Retrieved July 20, 2008.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Lean Production in the Air: Low-cost Competition Taking Off in the Global Airline Industry and Implications for Employment Relations Archived 2008-10-10 at the Wayback Machine, Nancy Johnson, Labor and Employment Relations Association Series, Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Woellert, Lorraine (2005-01-05). The Ups and Downs at US Airways. BusinessWeek. http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/jan2005/nf2005016_1058_db016.htm.'
- ↑ US Airways System Fact Sheet.
- ↑ Isidore, Chris (14 February 2013). "US Airways-American Airlines to merge". CNNMoney.
- ↑ "American Airlines certificate marks merger milestone". Archived from the original on 2015-05-11. Retrieved 2015-05-10.
- ↑ Williams, Corey (6 May 2015). "Stock Update (NASDAQ:AAL): American Airlines Group Inc Announces Air Operations Leadership Appointments". Smarter Analyst.[dead link]
- ↑ "US Airways' final flight closes curtain on another major airline". USA TODAY.