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South Pacific Island Airways (SPIA) was an airline operating flights in the Pacific including American Samoa and Hawaii with service to the west coast of U.S. and Canada as well as to Alaska, New Zealand, Guam and Tahiti from 1973 to 1987. [3]
The first jet flight, an Air New Zealand Douglas DC-8, landed in December 1973. [14] The international airport was officially opened on 28 January 1974. [5] The Cook Islands government took control of landing rights in 1985. [15] In 2003, the terminal and departure and check-in areas were revamped at a cost of US$650,000. [16]
American Airlines ordered 25 DC-10s in its first order. [16] [17] The DC-10 made its first flight on August 29, 1970, [18] and received its type certificate from the FAA on July 29, 1971. [19] On August 5, 1971, the DC-10 entered commercial service with American Airlines on a round-trip flight between Los Angeles and Chicago. [20]
Eareckson Air Station is located on the western tip of Alaska's Aleutian islands near the larger island of Attu, lying approximately 1,500 miles southwest of Anchorage. The airport lies on the south side of the 2-mile by 4-mile island and is 98 feet above mean sea level.
An American Airlines flight narrowly avoided crashing into a mountain range in Hawaii, officials said. ... Los Angeles-bound Flight 298 had just taken off from Honolulu at 12:30 a.m. Wednesday ...
Daniel K. Inouye International Airport [3] (IATA: HNL, ICAO: PHNL, FAA LID: HNL), also known as Honolulu International Airport, is the main and largest airport in Hawaii. [4] The airport is named after Honolulu native and Medal of Honor recipient Daniel Inouye, who represented Hawaii in the United States Senate from 1963 until his death in 2012.
Four airports in Hawaii are among the top-50 final destinations for passengers at the Boise Airport, according to airport data.
The following is a list of defunct airlines of the United States.However, some of these airlines have ceased operations completely, changed identities and/or FAA certificates and are still operating under a different name (e.g. America West Airlines changed to use the identity of US Airways in 2005 – which itself also changed identity to American Airlines in 2015).