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1955 Pioneer and Continental networks per the Civil Aeronautics Board case that approved the merger Pioneer Air Lines Douglas DC-3 in 1948. Essair (short for Efficiency, Safety, and Speed in the Air [1]) was incorporated in 1939, the first airline authorized by the federal Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) to fly as a local service carrier in the United States.
The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is a governmental agency and its purpose is to "provide safe, effective, and efficient movement of people and goods" throughout the state. [1] Though the public face of the agency is generally associated with maintenance of the state's immense highway system, the agency is also responsible for ...
Trans-Texas Airways became Texas International in 1969 and began jet service with DC-9's on a Denver-Amarillo-Lubbock-Austin-Houston route. [11] By 1976 all scheduled passenger airline flights at Lubbock were jets: Braniff Boeing 727-100s and Boeing 727-200s, Continental 727-200s and Texas International Airlines Douglas DC-9-10s. [12]
In early 1976, the same three airlines were at AUS (Trans-Texas Airways had changed its name to Texas International Airlines). [11] Braniff was operating up to eight nonstops a day to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport with Boeing 727-100s and 727-200s , the nonstop 727 to Washington Dulles Airport, and a nonstop 727-200 to San Antonio.
A twelve-ship formation over the Guadalupe River in the vicinity of Foster Field, Texas, summer 1942. Victoria Regional Airport (IATA: VCT, ICAO: KVCT, FAA LID: VCT) is a county-owned, public-use airport located five nautical miles (6 mi, 9 km) northeast of the central business district of Victoria, a city in Victoria County, Texas, United States. [1]
Texas International Airlines Inc. was a United States local service carrier, known from 1940 until 1947 as Aviation Enterprises, [1] until 1969 as Trans-Texas Airways (TTA), and as Texas International Airlines until 1982, when it merged with Continental Airlines. It was headquartered near William P. Hobby Airport in Houston, Texas. [2]
It has seen several airlines; from the 1930s until 1953-54 Braniff flew to Houston International (later named William P. Hobby Airport). Trans-Texas Airways "TTa", the forerunner to Texas International Airlines, arrived in the 1950s; until 1972 TTa Convair 600s flew nonstop to both Houston and Beaumont/Port Arthur and direct to Dallas and Austin.
This list of airports in Texas (a U.S. state) is grouped by type and sorted by location.It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports that were previously public-use, those with commercial enplanements recorded by the FAA or airports assigned an IATA airport code.