So Long US Airways, Hello “American” Now The Worlds Biggest Airline

Friday – October 16th, 2015 U.S. Airways flight 1939 is scheduled to depart Philadelphia for San Francisco for the last ever US Airways Flight.

U.S. Airways is being phased out as part of a 2013 merger with American Airlines.

The carrier ends its tenure with almost 6,700 daily flights, more than 100,000 employees and about 8 percent of U.S. domestic passengers.

U.S. Airways started out 76 years ago in Pittsburgh as All-American Aviation, flying single-engine planes delivering air mail.

In the 1970s, it was called Allegheny, then U.S. Air until 1997.

One more thing U.S. Airways will be remembered for is the heroic emergency landing by Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger and First Officer Jeffrey Skiles in 2009.

After a bird strike during takeoff from Laguardia, they landed the crippled plane safely in the Hudson River, saving all 155 people on board.

That aircraft is house in the Carolinas Aviation Museum in Charlotte, NC.


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