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Frontier Airlines was a United States local service carrier, a scheduled airline that was formed by the merger of Arizona Airways, Challenger Airlines, and Monarch Air Lines on June 1, 1950. Headquartered at the now-closed Stapleton International Airport in Denver , Colorado , the airline ceased operations on August 24, 1986.
A Frontier Boeing 737-300 in the original 1994 livery. Frontier retired its last 737 in 2005.. Frontier Airlines was created by Frederick W. "Rick" Brown (a United Airlines pilot), his wife Janice Brown, and Bob Schulman, the latter two having worked at the original Frontier Airlines (1950–1986). [21]
Frontier created Frontier Airlines Holdings, Inc., a holding company incorporated in Delaware to take advantage of favorable tax law of "Delaware General Corporation Law" in that state. The new corporate headquarters was located in Colorado. [1] On September 6, 2006, Frontier Holdings announced that a new division known as Lynx Aviation, would ...
He managed Continental Airlines and Texas International Airlines between 1972 and 1990, through airline deregulation. Lorenzo also led the creation and management of the holding company for the group, Texas Air Corporation , through which New York Air was formed in 1980 and Eastern Air Lines was acquired in 1986, as well as Frontier Airlines ...
In October 1986, American Airlines senior vice president Thomas G. Plaskett became the president and CEO of Continental Airlines. [40] On February 1, 1987, People Express, Frontier, New York Air, and several commuter carriers were merged into Continental Airlines to create the sixth largest airline in the world and became the largest low-fare ...
Alvin "Al" Lindbergh Feldman (December 14, 1927 - August 9, 1981) was an airline executive and mechanical engineer. He was the president and chief executive of Frontier Airlines for nine years before taking over as president at Continental Airlines.
Hartsfield–Jackson is the corporate headquarters and primary hub of Delta Air Lines. With just over 1,000 flights a day to 225 domestic and international destinations, the Delta hub is the world's largest airline hub [ 10 ] [ 11 ] and is considered the first mega-hub in America. [ 12 ]
In January 1987, [3] Texas Air announced its intention to merge New York Air, along with fellow subsidiaries Frontier Airlines and People Express Airlines, into Continental. According to Lorenzo, the merger was necessary in order to ensure both Continental and Texas Air had 'the strength and size to compete in tomorrow's air travel market', and ...