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US Airways
US Airways: Background Major United States airline owned by the American Airlines Group.
Operates an extensive global and domestic network, with 193 destinations in 24 countries in North America, South America, Europe, and the Middle East.
Member of the Star Alliance; utilizes a fleet of 343 mainline jet aircraft, as well as 278 regional jet and turbo-prop aircraft operated by contract and subsidiary airlines as US Airways Express.
Also operates the US Airways Shuttle, a US Airways brand which provides hourly service between Boston, New York, and Washington, D.C.
Employs 32,312 people worldwide and operates 3,028 daily flights (1,241 US Airways Mainline, 1,790 US Airways Express) since October 2013.
In February 2013, American Airlines and US Airways announced plans to merge, forming the world’s biggest airline.
On December 9, 2013, the holding corporations of American and US Airways merged effective.
To prepare for their ultimate merger, both airlines will start offering mutual frequent flyer benefits beginning January 7, 2014; on March 31, 2014, US Airways will pull out of Star Alliance to join Oneworld as an affiliate member of American Airlines.
The merged airline will carry the American Airlines name and branding; it will also take over three of the four existing US Airways hubs (Charlotte, Philadelphia, and Phoenix) for no less than five years under the terms of a payment with the United States Department of Justice and numerous state attorneys-general.
US Airways management will own the merged airline from the American headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas.
US Airways, American Airlines tails
US Airways: Hubs and subsidiaries Hubs:
Charlotte/Douglas International Airport Philadelphia International Airport Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport
Subsidiaries: Piedmont Airlines PSA Airlines
US Airways: Headquarters US Airways is headquartered in Tempe, Arizona; the 225,000
square feet (20,900 m2 ) was initially the headquarters of America West Airlines.
Jahna Berry of the Arizona Business Gazette, in 2005, said that the building “is one of the dominant buildings in downtown Tempe.”
The City of Tempe granted America West $11 million in inducements and tax breaks so it would occupy what is now the US Airways headquarters, which cost $37 million to assemble.
Even though construction of the building started in January 1998, the formal groundbreaking ceremonial was held the following month.
More than 700 employees work at the nine-story building since 2006.
US Airways formerly had its headquarters in Crystal Park Four (between Reagan National Airport, the Pentagon, and the District of Columbia), a Class A mixed-use development in Crystal City, Virginia, by Arlington.
US Airways ended up closing its Virginia headquarters following its acquirement of America West Airlines, relocating the employees into the previous America West building in three to six months.
Russell Grantham from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution claimed the decision to relocate the headquarters to Tempe was not that hard since the Crystal City facility “consisted of like two or three floors of people.”
In 2007, Pittsburgh International Airport won a three-way contest between Phoenix and Charlotte for the right to remain US Airways’ Global Flight Operations center.
Opening in November 2008, US Airways spent over $25 million ($27.1 million today) for a 72,000 square foot (6,700 m2) facility, replacing a smaller 11-year (prior to the merger) operations center closer to downtown Pittsburgh.
The state-of-the-art Ops Center opened early than planned; it is home to almost 600 employees, and serves as the nerve center for all of US Airways’ almost 1,400 daily mainline flights.
US Airways: Flight Operations Center
The airline’s employee community-service program is the US Airways Do Crew.
Employee helpers take part in community-related projects every month by way of local chapters in Boston, Charlotte, Las Vegas, New York City, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Washington, D.C., and Winston Salem, North Carolina.
US Airways: Do Crew
US Airways: Livery US Airways has used a number of liveries under the US
Airways brand.
On the whole, the Express and Shuttle divisions have used liveries that directly paralleled the company-wide livery at the time.
A dark blue livery was featured on US Airways aircraft before it bought America West; after that merger, the new US Airways, now operating flights in sunny parts of the southwestern United States, switched to a mostly white livery.
America West, US Airways tails
US Air– “Fly the USA on USAir”
USAir (late 80s)– “USAir is Your Choice”
PSA and USAir (late 80s)– "Now our smile is even wider."
USAir (early 90s)– "USAir Begins With You"
USAir (mid 90s)– "Fly the Flag With USAir"
US Airways (early 2000s)– "Where I Fly the Flag"
US Airways (post 9/11)– "The Carrier of Choice"
US Airways (first bankruptcy) "Together We Fly"
US Airways (post first bankruptcy)– "Clear Skies Ahead"
US Airways (post America West merger)– "Fly with US"
US Airways: Slogans
US Airways: Codeshare agreements US Airways, from July 2012, has codeshare agreements with
these airlines: Adria Airways Aegean Airlines Air China Air New Zealand All Nippon Airways Asiana Airlines Avianca Bahamasair Brussels Airlines Bulgaria Air Croatia Airlines EVA Air Hawaiian Airlines (Hawaii inter-island city) Lufthansa Qatar Airways Royal Jordanian Singapore Airlines South African Airways Swiss International Air Lines TAM Airlines TAP Portugal Turkish Airlines United Airlines Virgin Atlantic Airways Winair
US Airways Express in Star Alliance livery, LaGuardia Airport
US Airways: Fleet Since July 2013, US Airways has a fleet normal age of
12.8 years.
US Airways, by mid 2014, will retain a nearly all-Airbus fleet, excluding Boeing jets and a small fleet of Embraer jets.
The post-merger US Airways stills operates the world’s biggest fleet of Airbus aircraft.
Subsidiaries PSA and Piedmont solely fly Bombardier CRJ and de Havilland Dash 8 (DHC-8) line of aircraft.
US Airways Airbus A319, Charlotte/Douglas International Airport
US Airways aircraft, Philadelphia International Airport
US Airways aircraft, Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport
US Airways aircraft, Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport
The End YouTube links:
US Airways - “Cold Stone”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd3rS45IHlE
2012 US Airways Boeing 757 Safety Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0byfgEhIWQ
Safety Demo on the US Airways Express SAB 340: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejt2u1h57og
