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This is a list of destinations taken from the Air West system timetable dated July 1, 1968, when the merger to form Air West became effective. [43] Cities served with jets are noted in bold . Air West was operating Boeing 727-100 , Douglas DC-9-10 , and McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30 jets, as well as Fairchild F-27 turboprops and small Piper Navajo ...
[8] The July 1, 1972 Hughes Airwest system timetable stated that Twin Falls was the "jet gateway" for the Sun Valley, Idaho summer and ski resort area as the Friedman Memorial Airport (SUN) serving Sun Valley did not have airline jet flights at this time and was only served by commuter air carriers operating turboprop and prop aircraft during ...
Hughes Airwest merged into Republic Airlines in October 1980, [16] which then subsequently cut back its jet service in Idaho and elsewhere in the western U.S. [20] According to its August 1, 1982 system timetable, Republic was operating just two daily departures from the airport, both with Douglas DC-9-10 jets, with nonstop service to Spokane ...
[8] [9] By 1968, one of the Air West F-27 flights serving the airport was operating a daily southbound routing of Redding - Santa Rosa - Oakland - San Francisco. [10] In the summer of 1972, Hughes Airwest was operating two nonstop F-27 flights every weekday to San Francisco. [11] [12] However, by 1975 Hughes Airwest was no longer serving Santa ...
After the end of airline flights by Hughes Airwest at the airport in 1974, the county sold the airport to the City of Paso Robles. The City of Paso Robles subdivided unused land into 81 parcels for commercial development. The city formed an all-volunteer Fire, Crash and Rescue Department to serve the airport and the surrounding area. The city ...
By summer 1980, Hughes Airwest had become all-jet and was flying nonstop DC-9s to Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Boise and Pasco with direct DC-9s to Denver, Tucson, Redding, Redmond, Klamath Falls, and Yakima. [12] In 1970 Alaska Airlines flew the Boeing 707 to Eugene for flights to Russia via Portland, Seattle and Anchorage.
Air West was renamed Hughes Airwest in 1970 following its acquisition by Howard Hughes. The DC-9 jet service was suspended in 1972 but reinstated during 1974 through 1975. By 1976 Hughes Airwest reverted to operating all F-27 propjet service from the airport to Los Angeles and Santa Ana with direct service to Phoenix via a stop in Yuma.
Air West served Idaho Falls with Fairchild F-27s beginning in 1968, as well as did Hughes Airwest. Both airlines started this service in 1972. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] In the mid 1970s, Hughes Airwest updated all flights to Idaho Falls to Douglas DC-9-10 and McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30 jets, which flew direct to San Francisco ( SFO ) and Seattle (SEA) and ...