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People Express Airlines, stylized as PEOPLExpress, was a low-cost airline in the United States that operated from 1981 until it merged with Continental Airlines in 1987. Its headquarters was in the North Terminal (later Terminal C) of Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) in Newark, New Jersey .
People Express Airlines (stylized as PEOPLExpress) was an airline that began operations on June 30, 2014 from Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport, targeting the no-frills budget flyer. The air carrier took its name from the original PEOPLExpress Airlines which operated in the 1980s but was unrelated.
People Express Airlines may refer to: People Express Airlines (1980s) People Express Airlines (2010s) This page was last edited on 18 April 2024, at 14:59 (UTC). Text ...
On January 18, 1985, American Airlines announced its Ultimate Super Saver rates undercutting People Express, and traffic fell off for the first time in People’s history. [7] American also took out ads in every market in which People operated saying “You don’t have to fly on People Express anymore to get these prices” ( Chief Executive ...
In 1987, Texas Air consolidated its airline holdings by merging Frontier, New York Air and People Express into Continental, in turn making the latter the third-largest airline in the US, [7] and leaving Texas Air with two mainline carriers: Continental and Eastern, as well a number of commuter airlines.
Lynn Rippelmeyer is the first woman to fly the Boeing 747, the first woman to captain a 747 trans-oceanic, part of the first all-female crew, and first flight attendant to become an airline pilot. In retirement, she authored two books to chronicle her aviation journey - Life Takes Wings and Life Takes Flight and founded the nonprofit, ROSE ...
In December 1986, Texas Air also finalized a deal to acquire People Express Airlines, a low-cost airline that had been formed by eight executives who had left Texas Air in 1980. [96] [97] The deal included the assets of the bankrupt Frontier Airlines, which People Express had purchased in 1985.
In 1985, the founder and owner of Britt Airways, Bill Britt, sold the airline to People Express. A new hub at St. Louis was established and select flights from St. Louis began operating under code sharing with People Express (PE) while other flights, including all flights at Chicago, remained operating under the RU code for Britt Airways.