US Airways facts for kids
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| Founded | 1937 (as All American Aviation) |
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| Commenced operations | 1939 1979 (as USAir) |
| Ceased operations | October 17, 2015 (became American Airlines) |
| AOC # | AALA025A |
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| Frequent-flyer program | Dividend Miles |
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| Destinations | 193 |
| Company slogan | The new American is arriving. (final slogan – see article) |
| Parent company | US Airways Group (now known as American Airlines Group) |
| Headquarters | Tempe, Arizona, United States |
| Key people | Doug Parker, CEO |
US Airways, Inc. was an airline that used to be owned by the US Airways Group, Inc. US Airways was previously known as USAir. It was the sixth largest airline in the United States. Its headquarters were in Tempe, Arizona. US Airways owned 357 large jet aircraft and 329 smaller planes that flew to 240 places in North America, Central America, the Caribbean, Hawaii, and Europe. In May 2008, US Airways had 36,632 people working for them in the world and flew 3,512 flights each day. The US in US Airways stands for United States.
US Airways had many flights from Charlotte, North Carolina, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Phoenix, Arizona. US Airways also ran smaller numbers of flights from Washington, DC, Las Vegas, Nevada, New York, New York, and Boston, Massachusetts.
The airline also had the US Airways Shuttle. It's a brand which operates frequent flights between cities in the northeast part of the United States. Other companies operate short flights for US Airways, which are called US Airways Express. After the AA combination, the brand is now known as the "American Shuttle".
In 2005, US Airways combined with America West Airlines, but they kept the US Airways name.
In 2013, US Airways announced it was going to be combined with American Airlines. The combination was completed on April 8, 2015, with the new airline keeping the "American Airlines" name. US Airways had it's last flight on October 16, 2015.
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Boeing 737-301 livery in post merger Piedmont USAir hybrid
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USAir then US Airways headquarters in Crystal City
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Before they were USAir they were Allegheny Airlines
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Images for kids
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Allegheny Airlines BAC One-Eleven
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Douglas DC-9 in USAir livery (used from 1989–1997)
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Boeing 737-200 in MetroJet livery (1998–2001)
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US Airways operations in Pittsburgh following hub elimination (2007)
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US Airways 737-300 at Phoenix Sky Harbor Concourse A-Terminal 4 (2008)
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US Airways headquarters in Tempe, Arizona, formerly the America West Airlines headquarters
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US Airways (formerly America West) Airbus A320, landing at Vancouver International Airport
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US Airways Airbus A330-200 arrives London Heathrow Airport (2014)
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A US Airways Airbus A319 aircraft on final approach to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Washington, D.C.
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A US Airways Airbus A320 at San Diego International Airport
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See also
In Spanish: US Airways para niños
