Sun West Airlines was a commuter airline that flew in the Southwestern United States from 1980 through 1985. [1] Hubs were operated at Phoenix, AZ and Albuquerque, NM.
Sun West Airlines was a commuter airline that flew in the Southwestern United States from 1980 through 1985. [1] Hubs were operated at Phoenix, AZ and Albuquerque, NM.
Sun West Airlines began in early 1980 with Piper Navajo Chieftain's on a Phoenix-Gallup-Farmington-Durango route, a route vacated by the original Frontier Airlines using 50-seat Convair 580's the year prior. Flights from Albuquerque to Gallup and Farmington began by October 26, 1980 and to Durango by mid 1981. Service was expanded from Phoenix to Flagstaff and Yuma the following year as well as a Phoenix-Winslow-Gallup-Albuquerque route. More flights were added on all Albuquerque routes after Frontier exited the markets in late 1981. Sun West provided Essential Air Service for a time at Gallup, New Mexico and Winslow, Arizona. By June, 1983 Sun West had introduced the 14-seat Beechcraft 99 airliner but was then faced with intense competition by Air Midwest, Mesa, Pioneer, and Trans-Colorado Airlines on the Albuquerque to Farmington and Durango routes causing the carrier to retreat from these markets the following year. Service from Albuquerque and Phoenix to Tucson was also operated for brief periods in 1983. Sun West began a Phoenix-Prescott-Bullhead City-Las Vegas route on August 1, 1984 and modified it to a Phoenix-Lake Havasu City-Bullhead City-Ontario, CA route on March 1, 1985 however the airline ceased all operations on March 5, 1985. [2]
Mesa Airlines, Inc. is an American regional airline based in Phoenix, Arizona. It is an FAA Part 121-certificated air carrier operating under air carrier certificate number MASA036A issued on June 29, 1979. It is a subsidiary of Mesa Air Group and operates flights as American Eagle and United Express via respective code sharing agreements with American Airlines and United Airlines. It serves more than 180 markets in the Western Hemisphere. In a 1997 article from the Journal of Air Transportation, Mesa's safety record was noted as having the fewest incidents among domestic regional airlines at that time. Mesa filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in January 2010, hoping to shed financial obligations for leases on airplanes it no longer needed and emerged from bankruptcy in March 2011. In November 2017, Mesa opened a new training center in Phoenix. The 23,000-square-foot facility features a full-size CRJ-200 cabin trainer aircraft, 14 classrooms, and has the capacity to train 300 crew members at one time.
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Arizona is a state in the southwestern region of the United States. It is also part of the Western and the Mountain states. It is the 6th largest and the 14th most populous of the 50 states. Its capital and largest city is Phoenix. Arizona shares the Four Corners region with Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico; its other neighboring states are Nevada and California to the west and the Mexican states of Sonora and Baja California to the south and southwest.
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