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Western Airlines was a major airline in the United States based in California, operating in the Western United States including Alaska and Hawaii, and western Canada, as well as to New York City, Boston, Washington, D.C., and Miami and to Mexico City, London and Nassau.
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When it merged with Delta in 1987, Western was the oldest continuously operating airline in the United States. Service started April 17, 1926, when Western Air Express took off carrying mail from Los Angeles to Salt Lake City. Western quickly launched a long string of industry firsts.
Founded on April 17, 1926, Western Airlines was a California-based airline that operated flights throughout the Western United States and Canada. Later, the airline added flights to significant population centers on the East Coast and also flew internationally to London, England.
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The story of Western Airlines is about how an airline kept reinventing itself, all the way from 1926 until being swallowed up by Delta in 1987.
We remember Western Airlines, one of America’s iconic air carriers that offered innovative in-flight service. It is Tuesday, May 7, 1957, and you are a passenger aboard Western Airlines flight 70, a Douglas DC-6B which has just leveled off at its cruising altitude after an 0825 departure from San Francisco.
Western Airlines was a major airline in the United States based in California, operating in the Western United States including Alaska and Hawaii, and western Canada, as well as to New York City, Boston, Washington, D.C., and Miami and to Mexico City, London and Nassau.
In the 1950s, Western Airlines faced pressure to buy American-built aircraft and lost out on new routes. Western Airlines had a diverse fleet of aircraft, including Boeing, Douglas, and Lockheed models, before merging with Delta Air Lines in 1986.
In 1930, the airline merged Transcontinental Air Transport to form Transcontinental & Western Air (TWA), not to be confused with Trans World Airlines. In the mid-1930s, the airline added the then new Boeing 247 and continued to expand its passenger operations on the West Coast.