Air Midwest, Inc. , is the Federal Aviation Administration Section 121 certificate of an airline operated under the airman certificate number AMWA510A issued on May 15, 1965. Its head office is in Wichita, Kansas, United States, and is a subsidiary of the Mesa Air Group. In addition to initially flying as an independent airline, the airline then operates a code-sharing feeder carrier on behalf of Eastern Air Lines as Eastern Air Midwest Express, on behalf of Trans World Airlines (TWA) as Trans World Express and on behalf of US Airways as US Airways Express. The airline also operates feeder flights on behalf of Braniff (1983-1990) and Ozark Air Lines in addition to flying to Mesa Airlines. Midwest Air was closed by its parent company, Mesa Airlines, in June 2008.
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Air Midwest was founded in Wichita, Kansas, in May 1965 by Gary Adamson as Aviation Services, Inc. . Using a single Cessna 206, Adamson hauled the mortal remains to the mortality area. Later, the Aviation Service was held for the charter and in 1967 began scheduling flights between Wichita and Salina.
When Frontier Airlines withdrew from the western Kansas market in 1968, Aviation Services moved to receive air services. In 1969, it changed its name to Air Midwest and ordered the Beech 99 turboprop commuter to follow its progress.
In 1978, he operated a fleet of six Swearingen Metroliner commuter propjets connecting smaller cities throughout Kansas to Wichita, Kansas City, MO, and Denver, CO. With airline deregulation in late 1978 Air Midwest saw many expansion opportunities and made a bold move by ordering ten more Metroliners. On March 1, 1979, Air Midwest began operating several new routes in New Mexico that were flown by Texas International Airlines. The new service to New Mexico is connected to Kansas operations by serving Lubbock, Texas where Air Midwest partnered with Braniff Airlines. From Lubbock, services began to Hobbs, Roswell, Carlsbad, and Albuquerque, New Mexico, as well as from Albuquerque to Clovis, NM. Services also start from Lubbock, to Garden City, Dodge City, and Wichita, Kansas. In July 1979, services were inaugurated from Lubbock and Wichita, to Ponca City, Enid, and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. In 1980/1981 Air Midwest re-developed with new routes from Albuquerque to Alamogordo, Silver City, and Farmington, New Mexico formerly flown by the original Frontier Airlines (1950-1986). New links to Wichita are also made through Clovis and Amarillo. The route is also extended from Kansas City International Airport and Kansas City Municipal Airport to new cities in Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, and Oklahoma. In 1982 all Lubbock services were discontinued and transferred to Midland/Odessa, Texas. Beginning in 1984, Mesa Airlines's competitors began to expand aggressively throughout New Mexico and Texas and Air Midwest made the decision to stop all routes in this area in early 1986. They then shifted their focus to building a newly acquired code-sharing relationship with the large listed below. Also in 1984, Air Midwest independently operated nonstop flights from St. Louis Downtown Airport (CPS) to Chicago Midway Airport (MDW) and Kansas City Downtown Airport (MKC) with Metro propjets.
In 1985, Air Midwest joined the Scheduled Skyways , a Fayetteville-based airline, Arkansas, in hopes of getting codeshare to feed Memphis hubs from Republic Airlines. Air Midwest will grow by acquiring a route in Arkansas to complement the existing route in the midwest. Both operators operate Metro propjets, and Air Midwest has a chance to win a codeshare agreement with Republicans.
The Republic chose a different airline to feed its Memphis hub. Midwest Water finds many hidden issues with the abandoned fleet inherited from Scheduled Skyways, forcing airlines to do a lot of maintenance to keep the airplanes. Mergers with Scheduled Skyways pushed Air Midwest to the brink of bankruptcy over the next few years.
On April 1, 1985, Air Midwest introduced a 30-seat Saab 340 turboprop aircraft with flights from Kansas City to Wichita, Omaha, and Manhattan, KS. By the end of 1985 the airline operated five Saab 340 and 24 Metroliners.
Although Air Midwest was unsuccessful in obtaining a codeshare with Republic through the incorporation of Scheduled Skyways, it was able to obtain a codeshare agreement in 1985 with Eastern Airlines as East Midwest Express in Kansas City and the Wichita hub and then with Ozark Air Lines as the Ozark Midwest in the hub of St. Louis the carrier, and American Airlines as part of the American Eagle (brand airline) in their hub in Nashville.
Continuing the money issue forced Air Midwest to sell its center in Nashville and Saab 340 to America in 1987. Trans World Airlines (TWA) acquired Ozark Air Lines in 1986 and forced Air Midwest to hand over multiple routes. Louis because TWA already has a partner-sharing code in St. Louis, Resort Air (Current Trans States Airlines). At the end of 1989, Air Midwest operated the Trans World Express service on behalf of TWA in the St. Louis with nonstop flights to Birmingham, AL; Bloomington, IL; Cape Girardeau, MO; Cedar Rapids, IA; Champaign, IL; Decatur, IL; Evansville, IN; Fayetteville, AR; Fort Leonard Wood, MO; Knoxville, TN; Lexington, KY; Marion, IL; Paducah, KY; Quincy, IL; Rochester, MN; South Bend, IN; Topeka, KS and Waterloo, IA operates with Embraer EMB-120 Brasilia, Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner and Saab 340 turboprop. In 1990, the airline has added the Trans World Express service between St. Louis and Fort Smith, AR; Manhattan, KS and Salina, KS.
In June 1988, Air Midwest has built Kansas City center with 89 flights per day to 20 cities. The East was then abruptly pulled out of Kansas City leaving the Midwest Air without anyone connecting passenger traffic. Midwest Water quickly negotiated a codeshare deal with Braniff's second incarnation (1983-1990) when Braniff built Kansas City as a hub. However, this development took place before Braniff was once again bankrupt.
After the fall of Braniff in 1990, Air Midwest negotiated a new codeshare agreement, this time with USAir to feed the Kansas City hub.
On July 12, 1991, Air Midwest published a message for all employees, "St. Louis hubs are sold to TransStates, all to Mesa."
A book on the history of Midwest Water entitled "Pioneer of the Third Level" written by Dr. Imre E. Quastler, an authority on regional airlines.
Destinations in 1970
Air Midwest serves the following destinations as an independent commuter airline in 1970:
- Colby, KS
- Denver, CO
- Dodge City, KS
- Garden City, KS
- Great Bend, KS
- Hays, KS
- Hutchinson, KS
- Kansas City, MO - City of focus
- Liberal, KS
- Omaha, NE
- Topeka, KS
- Wichita, KS - Hub & amp; airline headquarters
Destination in 1981
Air Midwest secara independen melayani tujuan berikut pada tahun 1981 dengan semua penerbangan yang dioperasikan dengan Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner (Metro II SA-226 model) commuter propjets saat ini:
- Alamogordo, NM
- Albuquerque, NM - Kota fokus
- Amarillo, TX
- Carlsbad, NM
- Clovis, NM
- Columbia, MO
- Denver, CO
- Des Moines, IA
- Kota Dodge, KS
- Garden City, KS
- Goodland, KS
- Great Bend, KS
- Hays, KS
- Hobbs, NM
- Hutchinson, KS
- Kansas City, KS - Bandara Kansas City Downtown - Hub
- Kansas City, KS - Bandara Internasional Kansas City
- Lamar, CO
- Liberal, KS
- Lincoln, NE
- Lubbock, TX
- Omaha, NE
- Parsons, KS
- Roswell, NM
- St. Louis, MO
- Kota Perak, NM
- Springfield, MO
- Topeka, KS
- Tulsa, OK
- Wichita, KS - Hub & amp; markas besar maskapai
In 1983, the airline had added Farmington, NM, Grand Island, NE, Joplin, MO, Manhattan, KS, Midland, TX, Moline, IL, Oklahoma City, OK and Phoenix, AZ to its route system and in 1984 Chicago, IL ( via Midway Airport), Olathe, KS (via Johnson County Industrial Airport), Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN, and Sioux City, IA were also added.
Operations under Mesa Air Group
Mesa Air Group acquired Air Midwest in 1991. From 1991 to 1997, Air Midwest operated twelve Beechcraft 1900C commuter planes flying from the Kansas City hub as USAir Express. In 1997, Mesa Air Group underwent a corporate reorganization: Mesa Airline's FloridaGulf, Liberty Express, and Independent divisions merged into Air Midwest.
Air Midwest is operated to many small towns for Essential Air Services including Western Express operations in Phoenix and Las Vegas under an agreement with America West Airlines. Also independent operations run as a brand of Mesa Airlines with divisions from Albuquerque, Chicago, and Dallas/Fort Worth. Operation America West Express was transferred to US Airways Express by joining West America and US Airways in 2007. Midwest Air further operates as US Airways Express at major carrier hubs in Charlotte, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh and with smaller operations in Omaha, Little Rock, and New Orleans.
On January 8, 2003, Air Midwest suffered the first fatal accident when Air Midwest Flight 5481 operated as US Airways Express and departed from Charlotte for Greenville-Spartanburg falling 37 seconds after take-off. All 19 passengers and two crew members were killed in the crash.
For a period of three weeks in August 2006, Air Midwest operated as Delta Connection, flying three Beechcraft 1900D from John F. Kennedy Airport to Providence, Rhode Island and Windsor Locks, Connecticut, as a stop-gap measure for Freedom Airlines, another a subsidiary of the Mesa Air Group, until relieved by Chautauqua Airlines.
On February 1, 2007, Air Midwest began operations at Chicago Midway International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, to three Illinois airports: Decatur, Marion, and Quincy. However, just nine months after starting this service, Mesa Airlines announced that Air Midwest will end all services from Illinois on November 9, 2007.
In May 2007, Air Midwest, which operated as West America Express, requested the FAA to allow it to withdraw services from regional airports in Vernal, Utah, (service started just one year earlier) as soon as a replacement operator was approved. On October 4, 2007, the US Department of Transportation announced that Great Lakes Airlines would replace Air Midwest as the carrier of Essential Air Services at Utah airports in Vernal and Moab. At the same time, the Department of Transportation announced that SkyWest Airlines will replace Air Midwest as the carrier of Essential Air Services in Cedar City.
A report published in The Wall Street Journal on January 14, 2008, includes a statement from Mesa CEO Jonathan G. Ornstein that the company has decided to close Air Midwest, citing significant losses stemming from improved maintenance and fuel costs. All cities served by Air Midwest receive notice of intent to terminate the service, except for Prescott and Kingman, Arizona. Mesa later announced plans to fully close its Air Midwest subsidiary, with all services terminated on June 30, 2008. At the time of closure, there are 20 aircraft in operation, down from a height of 118.
The last two flights flown by Air Midwest are Flight 4679 and Flight 4681. Both depart on June 30, 2008, 10:40 pm from Kansas City International (MCI) to Joplin, Missouri (fl. 4679) and Columbia, Missouri (fl. 4681).
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Incidents and accidents
- Air Midwest Flight 5481 - Beechcraft 1900D operated by Air Midwest as US Airways Express under franchise agreement, crashed into airport hangars and burned 37 seconds after leaving Charlotte/Douglas International Airport in Charlotte, North Carolina, for Airport International Greenville-Spartanburg near Greer, South Carolina, on January 8, 2003. All 19 passengers and two aircraft pilots were killed in the crash.
Fleet
In February 2008, Air Midwest operated the following turbprop aircraft types:
Previously regional and commuter aircraft operated by Air Midwest include:
- Beechcraft 99
- Beechcraft 1900C
- British Aerospace BAe Jetstream 31
- Cessna 402
- Embraer EMB-120 Brasilia
- Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner (Metro II SA-226 model)
- Saab 340
All of the above are twin turboprop planes with the exception of Cessna 402 which is a twin piston engined aircraft.
MesaMax
MesaMax is applied to Airmax-operated Mesa Airlines flights. It consists of a card, in which the flight is recorded with a stamp. After 16 stamps have been recorded, the card can be redeemed for a round-trip ticket on a Mesa Airlines flight.
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References
External links
- Mesa Air Group
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