West Coast Airlines First Flight Seattle Airport - Bellingham Washington

Description: In May 1946, the Civil Aeronautics Board authorized West Coast Airlines to operate feeder air mail service in Oregon and Washington. The Seattle to Portland segment of Air Mail Route 77 was inaugurated on December 5, 1946, with service deferred at Tacoma and Kelso, Washington.On September 5, 1947 West Coast Airlines extended Air Mail Route 77 from Seattle to Bellingham. This completed inauguration of all segments of this route as authorized by the Civil Aeronautics Board in May 1946. Mount Vernon and Anacortes dispatched covers through the same airport. This cover was carried on the Air Mail Route 77 inaugural flight from the Seattle, Washington Airport Mail Facility to Bellingham, Washington (where it was backstamped) and is listed in the Contract Air Mail Flights (CAM) Section of The American Air Mail Catalogue was 77N18f.The Civil Aeronautics Board and President Lyndon Johnson approved the simultaneous merger of three airlines for the first time in early 1968. Pacific Air Lines, Bonanza Airlines, and West Coast Airlines were combined to form Air West. Air West provided service to eight Western states, Canada, and Mexico within its 8,800-mile system. In 1970 Howard R. Hughes and his Hughes Air Corporation acquired Air West and the name of the carrier was changed to Hughes Air West in April. In 1971 the name was changed to Hughes Airwest. Effective on October 1, 1980, Republic Airlines, Inc. purchased Hughes Airwest and made the carrier a wholly-owned subsidiary known as Republic Airlines West, Inc. On January 23, 1986, Northwest Airlines announced an $884 million purchase of Republic Airlines, which was the biggest merger in U.S. civil aviation history to date. The two carriers filed a merger application with the Department of Transportation on January 27. The Justice Department opposed the merger because it would “substantially lessen competition” in violation of antitrust laws. Full hearings regarding the merger were held and on July 31 the Department of Transportation approved Northwest Airlines’ takeover of Republic Airlines. On August 12 the acquisition of Republic was completed as officials from both airlines transferred ownership of Republic to Northwest. On October 1, 1986, the operations of Republic were fully integrated with a single Northwest flight schedule. On April 15, 2008, Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines announced a merger agreement. The merger of the two carriers formed what was then the largest commercial airline in the world, with 786 aircraft. Delta Air Lines' brand survived, while Northwest's brand officially ended in 2009.

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Location: Cranford, New Jersey

End Time: 2024-10-22T19:04:00.000Z

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