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Hughes Air Corporation, doing business as Hughes Airwest, was a local service carrier from 1970 to 1980 in the Western United States. It was backed by Howard Hughes ' Summa Corporation . Its original name in 1968 was Air West and the air carrier was owned by Nick Bez .
Hughes Airwest was sold to Republic Airlines for $38.5 million in October 1980, [4] and Hughes Helicopters was sold to McDonnell Douglas for $470 million in January 1984. [5] The hotel and casino properties were gradually sold off during the 1980s.
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While Cathy had a different endpoint to Millie and Debbie, they were all flying on the same aircraft and via the same airline – Hughes Airwest, a now-defunct regional airline linked to ...
This scenario was repeated 23 years later at another California-based airline, Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA), when a recently dismissed employee shot a supervisor, then both pilots on board a BAe 146-200 Flight 1771 en route from Los Angeles to San Francisco, causing it to crash in the hills of San Luis Obispo County with the loss of all on ...
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[14] [15] They reduced service to Phoenix and Las Vegas, former hubs of Hughes Airwest, citing their inability to compete with non-union airlines there, [16] and eventually dismantled the former extensive route system operated by Hughes Airwest in the western U.S. [17] As a result, this caused the airline’s image to worsen at a sensitive time ...
Midway filed for Chapter 11 in March 1991, Hinson describing it as a “minor setback”. In October the bankruptcy court approved a $175mm takeover offer by Northwest Airlines, including assuming remaining aircraft and employees. The court rejected a smaller, $110mm bid by Southwest, which did not offer to take aircraft or employees.