Allegheny Airlines
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| Founded | 1939 (as Allegheny Airlines) | ||||||
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| Commenced operations | August 1957 | ||||||
| Ceased operations | 1979 (Name change to USAir, US Airways, now American Airlines) | ||||||
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| Frequent-flyer program | AAdvantage | ||||||
| Fleet size | 315 | ||||||
| Destinations | 31 | ||||||
| Parent company | US Airways | ||||||
| Headquarters |
Washington, D.C., U.S. Arlington, Virginia, U.S. |
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| Key people |
Keith Houk (President) Ed Colodny (CEO and President) |
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Keith Houk (President)
Allegheny Airlines (IATA: AL, ICAO: ALO, Call sign: ALLEGHENY) was a U.S. airline that operated out of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, from 1952 to 1979. It was a forerunner of today’s US Airways, now merged into American Airlines. Its headquarters were at Washington National Airport in Arlington County, Virginia.
Allegheny Airlines began as All American Aviation Company providing mail delivery starting on 7 March 1939. It was founded by du Pont family brothers Richard C. du Pont and Alexis Felix du Pont, Jr..
In 1949 the company was renamed All American Airways as it switched from air mail to passenger service. On 1 January 1953 it was again renamed, to Allegheny Airlines. Like other local service airlines of the time, Allegheny was subsidized; in 1962 its operating revenues of $23.5 million included $6.5 million in "public service revenue".
In 1960, Allegheny headquarters were in Washington, D.C.
Allegheny added the Convair 540 to its fleet in 1961. The aircraft proved unreliable, incurring problems with its British-made Napier Elands that had replaced the Convair's piston engines. The airline bought new Fairchild F-27Js that the company named "Vistaliner". The F-27J was a U.S.-built version of the Fokker F27. The airline switched to General Motors/Allison turboprops in the Convair 580 which the carrier named the "Vistacruiser".
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