Pacific Air Lines
Defunct U.S. regional airline active 1941–1968 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Pacific Air Lines was a regional airline (then called a "local service" air carrier as defined by the federal Civil Aeronautics Board) on the West Coast of the United States that began scheduled passenger flights in the mid-1940s under the name Southwest Airways. The company linked small cities in California with larger cities such as Los Angeles and San Francisco. Flights later operated to Portland, Oregon, and eventually reached Las Vegas and Reno in Nevada.
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Founded | 1941 | ||||||
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Commenced operations | December 2, 1946 (renamed Pacific Air Lines, March 6, 1958) | ||||||
Ceased operations | 1968 (merged with Bonanza Air Lines and West Coast Airlines to form Air West) | ||||||
Hubs | San Francisco International Airport | ||||||
Fleet size | 40 | ||||||
Headquarters | San Francisco International Airport[1] | ||||||
Key people | John Howard Connelly Leland Hayward |
Founded largely with money from investors from the Hollywood motion picture industry, the airline was noted for innovative safety practices and cost-saving procedures.[2] The name Pacific Air Lines passed into history in 1968 in a merger with Bonanza Air Lines and West Coast Airlines, forming Air West, which then became Hughes Airwest following the acquisition of Air West by Howard Hughes.