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History Early history Walter T. Varney, founder of predecessors of United Airlines and Continental Airlines, 1921. Varney Speed Lines (named after one of its initial owners, Walter T. Varney, who was also a founder of United Airlines) was formed in 1934, operating airmail and passenger services in the American Southwest over a route originating from El Paso and extending through Albuquerque ...
The livery consisted of the airline's website in the fuselage and airline's name on the vertical stabilizer, on top of an orange wave. Solaseed Air: The logo is a 3D green fluid with 2 dots, indicating a smile. Southwest Airlines: Yellow, red and royal blue livery. SpiceJet: 15 yellow dots on a red background
The combined airline took the United name but used the Continental Airlines "globe" identity and livery, designed in 1991 by the Lippincott company. [97] Mark Bergsrud, the head of the new United Airlines's marketing department, said that the new logo reflected United's worldwide network and the airline's efforts to attract corporate clients.
Frontier Airlines livery in 1983; Boeing 737-200 N7382F. Frontier continued to operate Douglas DC-3s and added Convair CV-340s beginning in 1959; the company introduced a new logo on the new aircraft. On June 1, 1964, it was the first airline to fly the Convair 580, a CV-340/440 retrofitted with GM Allison turboprops. It had 50 seats, was flown ...
usairways.com ( Archived 2015-02-23 at the Wayback Machine) US Airways was an American airline that operated from 1937 until 2015, when it merged with American Airlines. It was originally founded in Pittsburgh as a mail delivery airline called All American Aviation, which soon became a commercial passenger airline.
Northwest Airlines Corp. Northwest Airlines Corp. (often abbreviated as NWA) was a major airline in the United States from 1926 until its merger with Delta Air Lines in 2010. [1] The merger made Delta the largest airline in the world until the American Airlines–US Airways merger in 2013. [2] [3] Northwest was headquartered in Eagan, Minnesota ...
United Airlines' 1997–2010 logo. The 'U' Tulip, designed by Saul Bass, was the airline's icon from 1973 to 2010. United traces its roots to Varney Air Lines (VAL), which Walter Varney founded in 1926 in Boise, Idaho. Continental Airlines is the successor to Speed Lines, which Varney had founded by 1932 and whose name changed to Varney Speed ...
Frank Borman ( President) Frank Lorenzo (Texas Air owner) Founders. Eddie Rickenbacker (First CEO) Eastern Air Lines, also colloquially known as Eastern, was a major airline in the United States that operated from 1926 to 1991. Before its dissolution, it was headquartered at Miami International Airport in an unincorporated area of Miami-Dade ...