US Airways

US Airways, Inc. was an airline^[6][7][8] that used to be owned by the US Airways Group, Inc. US Airways was previously known as USAir. It was the sixth largest airline in the United States. Its headquarters were in Tempe, Arizona. US Airways owned 357 large jet aircraft and 329 smaller planes that flew to 240 places in North America, Central America, the Caribbean, Hawaii, and Europe. In May 2008, US Airways had 36,632 people working for them in the world and flew 3,512 flights each day. The US in US Airways stands for United States.

US Airways

IATA ICAO Callsign US USA (1979–2008) AWE (2008–2015) USAir (1979–1997) US AIR (1997–2008) CACTUS (2008-April 2015) AMERICAN (April-October 2015)
Founded	1937 (as All American Aviation)
Commenced operations	1939 1979 (as USAir)
Ceased operations	October 17, 2015 (2015-10-17) (became American Airlines)
AOC #	AALA025A[1]
Hubs	Charlotte Douglas International Airport Philadelphia International Airport Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport[2]
Frequent-flyer program	Dividend Miles
Alliance	Star Alliance (2004–2014) Oneworld (affiliate; 2014-2015)[3]
Subsidiaries	Piedmont Airlines PSA Airlines
Fleet size	338 (Mainline) 278 (US Airways Express)
Destinations	193
Company slogan	The new American is arriving. (final slogan – see article)
Parent company	US Airways Group (now known as American Airlines Group)
Headquarters	Tempe, Arizona, United States[4]
Key people	Doug Parker, CEO[5]
Website	Archived official website at the Wayback Machine (archive index)

Flights

US Airways had many flights from Charlotte, North Carolina, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Phoenix, Arizona. US Airways also ran smaller numbers of flights from Washington, DC, Las Vegas, Nevada, New York City, and Boston, Massachusetts.^[9]

Affiliates

The airline also had the US Airways Shuttle. It's a brand which operates frequent flights between cities in the northeast part of the United States. Other companies operate short flights for US Airways, which are called US Airways Express. After the AA combination, the brand is now known as the "American Shuttle".

History

In 2005, US Airways combined with America West Airlines, but they kept the US Airways name.^[6][7][8]

In 2013, US Airways announced it was going to be combined with American Airlines. ^[10] The combination was completed on April 8, 2015, ^[11] with the new airline keeping the "American Airlines" name. ^[12] US Airways had it's last flight on October 16, 2015. ^[13]

Gallery

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  A US Airways Boeing 737 landing at Boston.
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  Boeing 737-301 livery in post merger Piedmont USAir hybrid
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  USAir then US Airways headquarters in Crystal City
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  Before they were USAir they were Allegheny Airlines