icao iata company callsign country
SI Jet America Airlines USA United States

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Scheduled airline service. Company started operations on November 16 1981 offering daily service from Long Beach CA to Chicago O'Hare airport using MD-80 airliners. It advertised Long Beach as more convenient and less crowded alternative to LAX, which at the time was undergoing major remodeling to get it ready for the 1984 Olympics. Service expanded to include Oakland CA, Dallas Ft-Worth and St Louis. In 1985 Detroit and Las Vegas were added as well as service from Orange County CA In its final year of service airline also operated flights from Orange County to Portland OR, Seattle and northern trans-continental route to Washington National airport via Minneapolis-St Paul.

founded - demised (age)

1981 - October 31 1987  (6)

headquarters

2895 Temple Av, Long Beach CA

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base airports

KLGB Long Beach Long Beach
KSNA John Wayne/Orange County Santa Ana

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McDonnell Douglas MD-80 10
Boeing 707 3

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