BusinessOctober 19, 2015
Final US Airways flight lands in Philly
PHILADELPHIA -- The final US Airways flight landed in Philadelphia, completing the last leg of its roundtrip journey. The Airbus A321 landed at Philadelphia International Airport at 5:54 a.m. Saturday after departing from San Francisco at 1:07 a.m. as a red-eye flight...
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PHILADELPHIA -- The final US Airways flight landed in Philadelphia, completing the last leg of its roundtrip journey.
The Airbus A321 landed at Philadelphia International Airport at 5:54 a.m. Saturday after departing from San Francisco at 1:07 a.m. as a red-eye flight.
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The plane is Flight 1939, named for the airline's founding year.
The flight departed from Philadelphia at 10:36 a.m. Friday, making stops in Charlotte, North Carolina; Phoenix; and San Francisco.
Future flights will fly under the American Airlines banner, after the completion of a merger announced in 2013. US Airways began as All American Aviation, based in Pittsburgh. It later operated as Allegheny Airlines before becoming US Airways.
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