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Tennessee Airways was an airline that was conceived as a regional airline to provide service to cities throughout the Southeastern United States. The airline was in service between 1978 and 1987 and was based out of Knoxville, Tennessee. [1] Stuart Adcock was president and major shareholder.
The following is a list of defunct airlines of the United States.However, some of these airlines have ceased operations completely, changed identities and/or FAA certificates and are still operating under a different name (e.g. America West Airlines changed to use the identity of US Airways in 2005 – which itself also changed identity to American Airlines in 2015).
Airlines, like any business, are susceptible to market fluctuations and economic difficulties. The economic structure of the airline industry may contribute to airline bankruptcies as well. One major element in almost every airline bankruptcy is the rejection by the debtor of its current collective bargaining agreements with employees.
Capitol Airways was founded by Jesse F. Stallings (1909–1979), an airline captain, and Richmond Mclnnis, his associate. The company was incorporated in Tennessee on 11 January 1946. [5] Capitol's Letter of Registration (what such airlines had at the time in lieu of a certificate) [6] was issued 11 August 1947. [7]
People Express Airlines, stylized as PEOPLExpress, was a low-cost airline in the United States that operated from 1981 until it merged with Continental Airlines in 1987. Its headquarters was in the North Terminal (later Terminal C) of Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) in Newark, New Jersey .
In one famous example during the 1980s, Robert Crandall, then the head of American Airlines, bragged about how removing just one olive from every salad saved the airline $40,000 a year.
The Martin 4-0-4 was Piedmont's first pressurized airliner. Like most airlines before deregulation, Piedmont did not have hubs.The airline would eventually fly jets to small airports and connected unlikely city pairs with jet flights: Kinston, North Carolina, and Florence, South Carolina; Roanoke, Virginia, and Asheville, North Carolina; Lynchburg, Virginia, and New York City's LaGuardia ...
These changes in Tennessee and other states all began with the 1963 unanimous decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in Gideon v. Wainwright . How the Fifth Amendment works and why not guilty verdict ...