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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.

US Airways
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IATA

US 		ICAO
USA (1979–2008)
AWE (2008–2015) 		Callsign
USAir (1979–1997)
US AIR (1997–2008)
CACTUS (2008-April 2015)
AMERICAN (April-October 2015)
Founded1937 (as All American Aviation)
Commenced operations1939
1979 (as USAir)
Ceased operationsOctober 17, 2015 (2015-10-17) (became American Airlines)
AOC #AALA025A[1]
Hubs
Frequent-flyer programDividend Miles
Alliance
Subsidiaries
Fleet size
Destinations193
Company sloganThe new American is arriving.
(final slogan – see article)
Parent companyUS Airways Group (now known as American Airlines Group)
HeadquartersTempe, Arizona, United States[4]
Key peopleDoug Parker, CEO[5]
WebsiteArchived 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.

  • US Airways (6218972132).jpg
  • US Airways 762 N253AY.JPG
  • US Airways A330 (3458288487).jpg
  • Boeing 737-301, USAir AN0201093.jpg

    Boeing 737-301 livery in post merger Piedmont USAir hybrid

  • 2345 Crystal Drive Hbrackett.jpg

    USAir then US Airways headquarters in Crystal City

  • Allegheny Airlines DC-9-31; N950VJ, June 1975 ATZ (5126631925).jpg

    Before they were USAir they were Allegheny Airlines

US Airways Media

  • Allegheny Airlines BAC 1-11 N1132J 1.jpg

    Allegheny Airlines BAC One-Eleven

  • USAir DC-9 CLT.jpg

    Douglas DC-9 in USAir livery, used from 1989 to 1997

  • A USAir Boeing 737-300 at Washington National Airport in 1986.

  • MetroJet B737-200 (N282AU) taxiing at Washington Dulles International Airport.jpg

    Boeing 737-200 in MetroJet livery (1998–2001)

  • N649US US Airways (7708685480).jpg

    Boeing 767-200 in livery from before the America West merger

  • PIT US Airways.JPG

    US Airways operations in Pittsburgh following hub elimination (2007)

  • US Airways Planes at Sky Harbor.jpg

    US Airways 737-300 at Phoenix Sky Harbor Terminal 4 Concourse A (2008)

  • Coast Guard video (8:07 long) of the crash and rescue; splashdown is at 3:31:02 pm

  • USAirwaysHQTempe.jpg

    US Airways headquarters in Tempe, Arizona, formerly the America West Airlines headquarters until AWA's acquisition of US Airways assets and brand name

References

  1. ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
  2. ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
  3. ↑ "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. 
  4. ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
  5. ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
  7. ↑ 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. ↑ 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. '
  9. ↑ US Airways System Fact Sheet.
  10. ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
  11. ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
  12. ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).[dead link]
  13. ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
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