• Texas Air Corporation, also known as Texas Air, was an airline holding company in the United States, incorporated in June 1980 by airline investor Frank...
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  • holding company, Texas Air Corporation, for Texas International and New York Air, the first holding company in the airline industry. Texas Air then acquired...
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    New York Air was a low-cost airline in the United States owned by Texas Air Corporation and based at Hangar 5 at LaGuardia Airport in Flushing, Queens...
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  • assets to his other airlines, including Continental Airlines and Texas Air Corporation. After continued labor disputes and a crippling strike in 1989,...
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    the holding company for the group, Texas Air Corporation, through which New York Air was formed in 1980 and Eastern Air Lines was acquired in 1986, as well...
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    to Texas Air Corporation for roughly $125 million in cash, notes, and assumed debt. Due to concerns about regulatory approval for the purchase, Texas Air...
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  • Airline firms with certificated air carriers, headquartered, directed and operated from Texas The following is a list of individual passenger, charter...
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  • Airlines System (SAS) and Texas Air announced that Jet Capital Corporation, which owned controlling interest in Texas Air, was selling its interest to...
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  • On 25 July 2000, Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde passenger jet on an international charter flight from Paris to New York, crashed shortly after takeoff...
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  • 727s in 1966, then to DC-9s in 1967. New York Air, a subsidiary of Frank Lorenzo's Texas Air Corporation, started a competing shuttle service in 1980 with...
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    it was cleared to descend to 16,000 feet (4,900 m) by the Salt Lake City Air Route Traffic Control Center. At 17:47, now under the direction of terminal...
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    protection of air and water resources, and later to the regulation of hazardous and nonhazardous waste generation. During the 1990s, the Texas Legislature...
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    Sicily's sister ship N6902C, Star of the Seine, was destroyed in another mid-air collision with a United Airlines flight in 1956. At 10:21 a.m. EST, United...
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  • Stapleton International Airport in Denver, Colorado. It was sold to Texas Air Corporation/Continental Airlines in 1986 and was operated as a Continental Express...
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    767s (77 757s and 51 767s), the second-largest combined fleet after Delta Air Lines with 206 (127 757s and 79 767s). Both have to replace them; they could...
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  • Eastern to handle reservations at some airports. In April 1987, Texas Air Corporation purchased 50% of Bar Harbor Airlines and arrange for the sale of...
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  • Sabre Corporation, a travel technology company headquartered in Southlake, Texas, is the largest global distribution systems (GDS) provider for air bookings...
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    AGM-88 HARM (category Air-to-surface missiles of the United States)
    by Texas Instruments as a replacement for the AGM-45 Shrike and AGM-78 Standard ARM system. Production was later taken over by Raytheon Corporation when...
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  • of Texas Air Corporation from 1982 to 1987. During that time period, New York Air and Texas International Airlines (which were already owned by Texas Air...
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  • chairman of Continental Airlines' parent company Texas Air Corporation. Lorenzo blamed Texas Air Corporation's deficit to Continental's "disappointing" performance...
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    5 firsthand stories from people who survived". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the original on March 6, 2023. Retrieved May 15, 2023...
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    determination was made the United States Army Air Corps was not suited for air mail flying. He based his operation, Varney Air Service, in Pasco, Washington, and...
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  • Transport Corporation (UATC) which then set about buying, in the space of just 28 months, Pacific Air Transport, Stout Air Services, VAL, and National Air Transport...
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  • World Corporation spun off the airline. In 1985, TWA's board agreed to sell the airline to Frank Lorenzo's Texas Air Corporation. Due to Texas Air's ownership...
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    delivered to Air Canada in May 1966 and sold to Texas International Airlines in 1968, where it served the majority of its service until Texas International...
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    western Pacific Ocean. During its final years, the airline, a Delaware corporation, was headquartered in the old terminal building at Won Pat International...
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    United Air Lines Flight 615 was a US transcontinental east–west airline service from Boston to Hartford, Cleveland, Chicago, Oakland and San Francisco...
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  • Airplane Company and Boeing Air Transport. In 1931 Boeing Air Transport was one of four airlines that merged into United Air Lines and Patterson moved to...
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  • struggling company with a very well-known brand. Examples include: The Texas Air Corporation takeover of Continental Airlines but taking the Continental name...
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    controls. In the event of loss of engine power or primary pump failure, a ram air turbine could provide emergency electrical power for electrically powered...
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