United Airlines and Boeing were both formed by who?
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History of United Airlines United Airlines is the 6th largest airline in the world, with 86,852 employees (which includes the entire holding company United Continental Holdings) and 721 aircraft. It was the brainchild of William Boeing and emerged from his consolidation of numerous carriers and equipment manufacturers from 1928 to 1930.
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William Boeing William Edward Boeing ( ; October 1, 1881 – September 28, 1956) was an American aviation pioneer who founded The Boeing Company.
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British United Airways British United Airways (BUA) was a private, independent British airline formed as a result of the merger of Airwork Services and Hunting-Clan Air Transport in July 1960, making it the largest wholly private airline based in the United Kingdom at the time. British and Commonwealth Shipping (B&C) was the new airline's main shareholder.
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Transcontinental Air Transport Transcontinental Air Transport (T-A-T) was an airline founded in 1928 by Clement Melville Keys that merged in 1930 with Western Air Express to form what became TWA. Keys enlisted the help of Charles Lindbergh to design a transcontinental network to get government airmail contracts. Lindbergh established numerous airports across the country in this effort.
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Allegheny Airlines 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 US Airways, now merged into American Airlines. Its headquarters were at Washington National Airport in Arlington County, Virginia.
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Cascade Airways Cascade Airways was an airline in the United States which flew primarily regional air routes out of Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1969, it operated for 17 years and shut down in 1986. Its IATA code (CZ) was later assigned to China Southern Airlines which was formed two years after Cascade's shutdown.
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Toa Airways Toa Airways (東亜航空 , Tōa Kōkū ) was a Japanese airline and the predecessor of Japan Air System. Founded on November 30, 1953, it merged with Japan Domestic Airlines on May 15, 1971, to form Toa Domestic Airlines, which went on to become Japan Air System.
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Hughes Airwest Hughes Airwest (IATA: RW, ICAO: -, Call sign: Hughes-Air) was an airline in the western United States, backed by the Summa Corporation of Howard Hughes. The original name for the airline was Air West. Hughes Airwest flew routes in the western U.S. and to several destinations in Mexico and Canada; it was purchased by Republic Airlines on October 1, 1980. Its headquarters were on the grounds of San Francisco International Airport in unincorporated San Mateo County, California.
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Air Lease Corporation Air Lease Corporation (ALC) is an American aircraft leasing company founded in 2010 and headed by Steven Udvar-Házy. Air Lease purchases new commercial aircraft through direct orders from Boeing, Airbus, Embraer and ATR, and leases them to its airline customers worldwide through specialized aircraft leasing and financing.
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Boeing strike of 1948 The Boeing Company was founded by William Edward Boeing in 1916, but the company did not have the name of Boeing from the start, at the time it was called Pacific Aero Products. The company started to sell a two-seater floater plane which was the main mode for business. The moto that William Edward Boeing believed it was, “To let no new improvement in flying and flying equipment pass us by.” This moto has held up even through today for Boeing has led the way for innovations with their airplanes. In 1945 president of the company Philip G. Johnson died and William McPherson Allen took his place. During this time that market for wartime planes was no longer which resulted in Allen having to close the doors temporarily and to let go of 25,000 workers. To save the company Allen announced that he was going to start making commercial planes.
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Delta Air Lines fleet As of September 2017, the Delta Air Lines mainline fleet comprises 852 aircraft in service, making it one of the largest airline fleets in the world. Before merging with Northwest Airlines in 2009, Delta Air Lines operated an all-Boeing and McDonnell Douglas fleet; it incorporated Northwest's Airbus aircraft into its fleet following the merger and subsequently ordered further Airbus types. Delta is known for its policy of generally buying older generation or used aircraft and for continuing to fly aircraft for 20–30 years, much longer than most other major airlines. As such, it has one of the oldest fleets of any American airline, with an average fleet age of 17 years as of 2017. Fellow U.S. legacy carriers American Airlines and United Airlines have much younger fleets; as of December 29, 2016, American had an average fleet age of 10.3 years, while United had an average fleet age of 14.1 years.
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Bill Ayer William S. "Bill" Ayer (born 1955 in Seattle, Washington, United States) is an American former chairman, president, pilot and chief executive officer of Alaska Airlines and Alaska Air Group which is the parent company of Alaska Airlines and its sister carrier Horizon Air.
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Bell Aircraft The Bell Aircraft Corporation was an aircraft manufacturer of the United States, a builder of several types of fighter aircraft for World War II but most famous for the Bell X-1, the first supersonic aircraft, and for the development and production of many important civilian and military helicopters. Bell also developed the Reaction Control System for the Mercury Spacecraft, North American X-15, and Bell Rocket Belt. The company was purchased in 1960 by Textron, and lives on today as Bell Helicopter.
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CommutAir CommutAir, operating as United Express, is an American regional airline founded in 1989, and is majority-owned by Champlain Enterprises Inc. Today, CommutAir operates more than 800 weekly flights to 30 plus destinations, with Bombardier Q200/Q300 and Embraer ERJ145XR aircraft, from its bases in Newark, Albany and Dulles.
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Boeing 80 The Boeing 80 was an American airliner of the 1920s. A three-engined biplane, the Model 80 was built by the Boeing Airplane Company for Boeing's own airline, Boeing Air Transport, successfully carrying both airmail and passengers on scheduled services.
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Jet Aviation Jet Aviation is a Basel-based business aviation services company. One of the industry's largest, it was founded in Switzerland in 1967 and today is a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD). Aircraft maintenance, completions and refurbishment, engineering, fixed-base operations, along with aircraft management, charter services, aircraft sales and personnel services are provided by some 5,600 employees at 26 airport facilities throughout Europe, the Middle East, Asia and North and South America. Jet Aviation's European and U.S. aircraft management and charter divisions jointly operate a fleet of more than 200 aircraft.
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Harry Stonecipher Harry C. Stonecipher (born May 16, 1936) is a former president and chief executive officer of American aerospace companies McDonnell Douglas and, later, The Boeing Company. Stonecipher orchestrated the merger between McDonnell Douglas and Boeing, and was widely credited with the seeming resurgence of Boeing after government procurement scandals. However, his tenure also included major decisions to change Boeing's design and sourcing process for the new 787 airliner. These decisions later proved to be organizationally and financially disastrous for the company. After a long and distinguished career, Stonecipher was forced to resign at Boeing following the disclosure of his longtime consensual affair with a fellow Boeing employee, who was not a direct report and whom he later married. In October 2010, Stonecipher joined the board of directors of iControl Systems USA.
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China United Airlines China United Airlines Co., Ltd. () is a budget airline with its headquarters in Fengtai District, Beijing, China, operating scheduled flights and charter services in co-operation with local enterprises out of Beijing Nanyuan Airport, making it the only commercial airline using this airport. The airline previously had its headquarters in another area in Fengtai District, Beijing.
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Midway Airlines (1976–1991) Midway Airlines was a United States airline founded on August 6, 1976, by investor Kenneth t. Carlson and joined by Irving T. Tague and William B. Owens in an October 13, 1976, filing with the Civil Aeronautics Board (CA) for an airline operating certificate. Although it received its operating certificate from the CAB prior to the passage of the Airline Deregulation Act in 1978, it is widely recognized as the first post-deregulation start-up. The airline commenced operations on October 31, 1979.
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Aero Controls Aero Controls, Inc. is an aerospace engineering company founded in October 1984 by John Titus, the CEO and President of the Company, headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
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Kevin G. McAllister Kevin G. McAllister is an American businessman serving as President and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes.
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Frontier Airlines (1950–1986) Frontier Airlines was a United States airline formed by a merger of Arizona Airways, Challenger Airlines, and Monarch Airlines (1946–1950) on June 1, 1950. It was headquartered at Stapleton Airport in Denver. The airline ceased operations on August 24, 1986. In 1994, a new airline was founded using the Frontier Airlines name.