26 OCTOBER 2015

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Article from BTNews 26 OCTOBER 2015

Final flight for US Airways

An aviation era came to an end last week as US Airways flew its final flight, an Airbus A321 service departing from San Francisco and heading for its home state of Pennsylvania.

The airline has now been absorbed by American Airlines, two years after a merger deal was signed to create the world’s largest airline.

All former US Airways passengers will now fly on AA jets and use AA facilities and the AA.com website and app.

Saturday’s flight was given the number 1939, in recognition of the year US Airways’ predecessor, All-American Aviation, began delivering the mail to western Pennsylvania and the Ohio Valley on single-engine Stinson Reliant aircraft.

The company became Allegheny Airlines in 1952, then USAir and finally US Airways.

Many people will remember US Airways for the moment in 2009 when Captain Chesley Sullenberger in command of the airline’s Flight 1549 landed his crippled aircraft in the Hudson River in New York after hitting a flock of geese. All 155 people onboard survived.  

Sullenberger was hailed as a hero, wrote two books on the experience and retired after 30 years as a pilot.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Airways

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John Davidson, Paris

Allegheny also absorbed Mohawk Airlines, which some of us used to call "Slowhawk", in its early days of growth. Steve Wolf, coming from United, tried to rebuild USAirways, taking over from a long-time employee whose name escapes me; he'd started as a baggage handler. An interesting history.


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