This article is about the defunct United States airline. For the current Vietnamese operator, see Pacific Airlines (Vietnam).
"Southwest Airways" redirects here. For the present-day carrier based in Dallas, Texas, see Southwest Airlines.
Southwest Airways (1941–1958) Pacific Air Lines (1958–1968)
IATA
ICAO
Callsign
PC
PCA
PACIFIC
Founded
1941
Commenced operations
December 2, 1946 (renamed Pacific Air Lines, March 6, 1958)
Ceased operations
1968 (merged with Bonanza Air Lines and West Coast Airlines to form Air West)
Hubs
San Francisco International Airport
Fleet size
40
Headquarters
San Francisco International Airport[1]
Key people
John Howard Connelly Leland Hayward
Pacific Air Lines was a local service carrier on the West Coast of the United States that began scheduled passenger flights in the mid-1940s under the name Southwest Airways. The company linked small cities in California with larger cities such as Los Angeles and San Francisco. Flights later operated to Portland, Oregon, and eventually reached Las Vegas and Reno in Nevada.
Founded largely with money from investors from the Hollywood motion picture industry, the airline was noted for innovative safety practices and cost-saving procedures.[2] The name Pacific Air Lines passed into history in 1968 in a merger with Bonanza Air Lines and West Coast Airlines, forming Air West, which then became Hughes Airwest following the acquisition of Air West by Howard Hughes.
^"Pacific Air Lines". Flight International: 523. April 2, 1964. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-11-20. Retrieved May 18, 2021.
^Small-Town Big-Timer. TIME, October 18, 1948. Retrieved May 18, 2021 - article about the earliest years of Southwest Airways (alt. link)
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