Posted on 07/10/2015 7:07:17 PM PDT by markomalley
The last flight for US Airways will take place this fall, and one more name in airline history will disappear.
The farewell flight for US Airways will be a red-eye — Flight 434 is scheduled to leave San Francisco around 10 p.m. and land in Philadelphia after 6 a.m. on Oct. 18. The US Airways website will be turned off. Airport kiosks and signs will change to American Airlines.
The two airlines merged in December 2013 and decided to keep the better-known American name. Vestiges of the carrier will survive for some time, however, as some planes won’t be repainted yet in American’s colors and logo.
In the last 10 years, mergers have eliminated Northwest, Continental and AirTran. Before that, Pan Am, TWA and many smaller carriers disappeared.
(Excerpt) Read more at toledoblade.com ...
And that’s a shame; Continental was a great airline and merged with UAL creating a lousy airline..
I miss Continental.
Rather than rise to Continental’s standards, United brought the acquired Continental down to their cr@ppy standards :(
Skid Row Airlines
Horrible
I would walk before I flew U.S. Air again.
Mohawk, Alleghany, U.S. Airways. My first flight was on a Mohawk DC-3. My first jet flight was on a Mohawk BAC-111.
I am weeping at the loss. How will we survive as a nation. First Studebaker folds and now this.
I found NWA to be vastly superior to Delta. My favorites at the moment, though I rarely fly now due to TSA, are SWA and Alaska.
Mohawk, Allegheny, Lake Central, Eastern, North East used to work for me.
Things that make you go hmmm.
On the fifteenth day of the first month...
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On January 15, 2009, US Airways Flight 1549, an Airbus A320 piloted by Captain Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger and First Officer Jeffrey Skiles, made an unpowered emergency water landing in the Hudson River after multiple bird strikes caused both jet engines to fail. All 155 occupants, the passengers and crew, successfully evacuated from the partially submerged airframe as it sank into the river; they were rescued by nearby watercraft. Several occupants suffered injuries, a few of them serious, but only one required hospitalization overnight. The incident came to be known as the "Miracle on the Hudson", and Captain Sullenberger was soon regarded as a hero by some accounts.[4][5][6]
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Exodus 19:4 Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself.
The farewell flight for US Airways will be a red-eye...
Ugh, I dread flying US Air, and hate that they monopolize Charlotte.
Had some Moron Passenger not opened the Back Door, the Plane wouldn’t have been in danger of sinking so fast.
The Idiot caused the Cabin to quickly fill up with Water.
I wonder if they ever found out who did it.
I don’t think I’ve ever flown on US Airways. Apparently I didn’t miss much.
Somebody who didn't like waiting in lines I suppose. :-/
Constellation , what a great airplane!
The article title is misleading. USAir took over AA which was in bankruptcy, but kept the AA name. The overall AA flying experience has gone down a bit. Concerns are it will lower even more towards the junk USAir quality.
You must be out if touch. The frequent flier programs were combined into AA earlier this year.
they took over PSA and at Burbank their flights dwindled to one a day from one every 20 minutes.
would fly anyone else than put up with their helps holier than thou attitude.
The Super Constellation was the most beautiful piston engine airliner in the sky.
In 1958 my father, a career Army officer, was transferred to France. I remember flying from New York City on a Connie. It had berths and I can remember my brother and I being put to bed in a berth.
My worst flying experience ever was US Airways. Vowed never to fly with them again. Unfortunately every experience with American was getting progressively worse and I haven’t flown them in at least 5 years, so by now they are probably at least as bad.
Air travel is no fun anymore. Pay more, get less services while paying for every service a al carte, get crammed into smaller and smaller seats, more layovers and connections and it is all topped off with the indignity of TSA’s security theater. I used to enjoy flying, but haven’t flown in over three years now and I’m glad of it.
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