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Lamar Muse was elected president and chief executive officer of the company in Jan. 1971. [3] Muse, a Texas native, was a veteran airline executive, having been employed at five different carriers since starting his industry career in 1948, including being the CEO of Central Airlines and CEO and president of Universal Airlines. [11]
Rossiya Airlines: The logo is a stylized letter "R", referencing to airline's name. Royal Air Maroc: Green Sharifian star in the tail, with two parallel lines in national colors (green and red). Royal Brunei Airlines: Yellow tail with logotype "RB" and the Brunei national emblem above. Royal Jordanian: Royal Hashemite Crown of the Jordanian ...
Southwest Airlines was founded in 1966 by Herbert Kelleher and Rollin King, and incorporated as Air Southwest Co. in 1967.Three other airlines (Braniff, Trans-Texas Airways, and Continental Airlines) took legal action to try to prevent the company from its planned strategy of undercutting their prices by flying only within Texas and thus being exempt from regulation by the federal Civil ...
Southwest Airlines began revenue flights on June 18, 1971, using three Boeing 737-200 aircraft, and operated the type exclusively during the airline's early history. These aircraft were not originally ordered by Southwest, but rather were delivery slots taken over from Air California, Aloha Airlines, and Pacific Southwest Airlines, [7] including a lone 737-200 Combi which was later traded with ...
On April 17, 1968, three earlier local service carriers in the western U.S. merged to form Air West: [7] [8] [9]. Pacific Air Lines, which previously operated as Southwest Airways when it was founded in 1941, was based in San Francisco, flew along the coast and California's Central Valley, linking cities from Medford, Oregon, to southern California.
Spray-painting a historic de Havilland Dragon Rapide in the colors of Iberia (2010). An aircraft livery is a set of comprehensive insignia comprising color, graphic, and typographical identifiers which operators (airlines, governments, air forces and occasionally private and corporate owners) apply to their aircraft.
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It acquired two commuter airlines, Pennsylvania Airlines and Suburban Airlines, in 1985. [21] It bought San Diego–based Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) in 1986 and Winston-Salem, North Carolina–based Piedmont Airlines in 1987. [22] The PSA acquisition was completed on April 9, 1988, and the Piedmont acquisition on August 5, 1989. [23]