AMR also controls the brand AmericanConnection

AmericanConnection

AmericanConnection is a brand name used by Chautauqua Airlines in the operation of passenger air service as a regional affiliate of American Airlines at its Chicago hub...

along with the former certificated airline TWA Airlines LLC, (formerly Trans World Airlines

Trans World Airlines

Trans World Airlines was an American airline that existed from 1925 until it was bought out by and merged with American Airlines in 2001. It was a major domestic airline in the United States and the main U.S.-based competitor of Pan American World Airways on intercontinental routes from 1946...

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Pacific Air Holdings, Dallas, Texas, airline holding company

• • Pacific Wings
    Pacific Wings
    Pacific Wings Airlines is an American commuter airline headquartered in Dallas, Texas, United States. It operates over 90 daily scheduled departures, as well as VIP charter air services throughout Hawaii. Its main base is Kahului Airport.- History :...
    
    , Dallas, Texas,(commuter airline and operates flights in Hawaii
    Hawaii
    Hawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states , and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of...
    
    ) operates the following brands of the certificated air carrier Pacific Wings which provide Essential Air Service
    Essential Air Service
    Essential Air Service is a U.S. government program enacted to guarantee that small communities in the United States, which, prior to deregulation, were served by certificated airlines, maintained commercial service. Its aim is to maintain a minimal level of scheduled air service to these...
    
    s to many small communities through federally subsidized contracts;
    • GeorgiaSkies
      GeorgiaSkies
      GeorgiaSkies is an American commuter airline brand founded by Pacific Air Holdings to operate flights in Georgia after the airline was awarded an Essential Air Service contract to serve Athens and Macon, Georgia. The airline started flights on September 29, 2008 and uses the airline identifiers...
      
      , Dallas, Texas (commuter airline which operates flights in Georgia
      Georgia (U.S. state)
      Georgia is a state located in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1732, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. The state is named after King George II of Great Britain. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788...
      
      )
    • KentuckySkies
      KentuckySkies
      KentuckySkies is a subsidiary of Pacific Wings founded in 2009. The carrier was offered to fly to the destinations stated below on an essential air service contract. Also travelers can connect to sister carrier Georgia Skies at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport...
      
      , Dallas, Texas (commuter airline which operates flights in Kentucky
      Kentucky
      The Commonwealth of Kentucky is a state located in the East Central United States of America. As classified by the United States Census Bureau, Kentucky is a Southern state, more specifically in the East South Central region. Kentucky is one of four U.S. states constituted as a commonwealth...
      
      )
    • New Mexico Airlines
      New Mexico Airlines
      New Mexico Airlines is an American commuter airline brand founded by Pacific Air Holdings to operate flights in New Mexico after the airline was awarded an Essential Air Service contract to serve Hobbs and Carlsbad, New Mexico. The airline started flights on July 1, 2007 and uses the airline...
      
      , Dallas, Texas (commuter airline which operates flights in New Mexico
      New Mexico
      New Mexico is a state located in the southwest and western regions of the United States. New Mexico is also usually considered one of the Mountain States. With a population density of 16 per square mile, New Mexico is the sixth-most sparsely inhabited U.S...
      
       and West Texas
      West Texas
      West Texas is a vernacular term applied to a region in the southwestern quadrant of the United States that primarily encompasses the arid and semi-arid lands in the western portion of the state of Texas....
      
      )
    • TennesseeSkies
      TennesseeSkies
      TennesseeSkies is a subsidiary of Pacific Wings founded in 2009. The carrier was offered to fly to the destinations stated below on an essential air service contract. Also travelers can connect to sister carrier Georgia Skies at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport...
      
      , Dallas, Texas (commuter airline which operates flights in Tennessee
      Tennessee
      Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States. It has a population of 6,346,105, making it the nation's 17th-largest state by population, and covers , making it the 36th-largest by total land area...
      
      .

Firms doing business as other Air (lines) Carriers and airline carriers recently taken over by business firms controlled from outside the state of Texas

United Continental Holdings

United Continental Holdings

United Continental Holdings, Inc. , is a publicly traded airline holding company, incorporated in Delaware with headquarters in the United Building in Chicago, Illinois. UCH owns and operates United Airlines, Inc. and Continental Airlines, Inc. both of which use the trade name United Airlines...

of Illinois

Illinois

Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...

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• • Continental Airlines
    Continental Airlines
    Continental Airlines was a major American airline now merged with United Airlines. On May 3, 2010, Continental Airlines, Inc. and UAL, Inc. announced a merger via a stock swap, and on October 1, 2010, the merger closed and UAL changed its name to United Continental Holdings, Inc...
    
    , Houston, Texas
    Houston, Texas
    Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States, and the largest city in the state of Texas. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the city had a population of 2.1 million people within an area of . Houston is the seat of Harris County and the economic center of , which is the ...
    
     and the brand Continental Express
    Continental Express
    Continental Express is the operating brand name used by a number of independently owned regional airlines providing regional jet feeder service under agreement with Continental Airlines...
    
    , Houston, Texas

Mesa Air Group

Mesa Air Group

Mesa Air Group, Inc. is a Nevada Corporation commercial aviation holding company with headquarters in Suite 100 at 410 North 44th Street in the Camelback East area of Phoenix, Arizona, United States. The company operates one regional airline subsidiary: Mesa Airlines, and five supporting...

of Arizona

Arizona

Arizona ; is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. It is also part of the western United States and the mountain west. The capital and largest city is Phoenix...

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• • Freedom Airlines
    Freedom Airlines
    Freedom Airlines, Inc. was an American FAA Part 121 certificated air carrier operating under air carrier certificate number FDKA087K issued on April 1, 2002. The Nevada Corporation is headquartered in Irving, Texas and is a subsidiary of Mesa Air Group...
    
    , Irving, Texas
    Irving, Texas
    Irving is a city located in the U.S. state of Texas within Dallas County. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the city population was 216,290. Irving is within the Dallas–Plano–Irving metropolitan division of the Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan area, designated...
    
     and is a subsidiary of Mesa Air Group
    Mesa Air Group
    Mesa Air Group, Inc. is a Nevada Corporation commercial aviation holding company with headquarters in Suite 100 at 410 North 44th Street in the Camelback East area of Phoenix, Arizona, United States. The company operates one regional airline subsidiary: Mesa Airlines, and five supporting...
    
    

List of defunct or merged Air (line) Carriers / Air (line) Carrier firms - headquartered in Texas, but no longer in business

Former certificated Air (line) Carrier transportation firms, headquartered in Texas

• • Air Alaska Pan Am Air Bridge
  • AirCal
    Air California
    Air California, later AirCal, was a regional airline using mainline equipment and serving different points in the state of California and some neighboring western U.S. states. It was founded by a partnership of Orange County businessmen as an alternative to other airlines and what was left of the...
    
    
  • Air Texas (1968-1970) Fort Worth Meacham International Airport
    Fort Worth Meacham International Airport
    Fort Worth Meacham International Airport is an airport in Fort Worth, Texas. The airport is located at the intersection of Interstate 820 and U.S. Business Highway 287 in northwest Fort Worth, near the downtown business district...
    
     to Austin and Houston
  • Amistad Airlines from Del Rio
  • ATA Airlines
    ATA Airlines
    ATA Airlines, Inc., formerly known as American Trans Air, was an American low-cost scheduled service and charter airline based in Indianapolis, Indiana. ATA operated scheduled passenger flights throughout the US mainland and Hawaii, as well as military and commercial charter flights around the world...
    
    
  • Austin Express
    Austin Express
    Austin Express Inc. was a regional airline headquartered in Austin, Texas, United States. The airline incorporated on August 13, 1997. It was originally operated by 10 former Conquest Airlines executives. All of the owners and key personnel of Austin Express were formerly employed by Conquest...
    
    , (Robert Mueller Municipal Airport
    Robert Mueller Municipal Airport
    Robert Mueller Municipal Airport served the Austin, Texas, United States, area until it was replaced by the Austin Bergstrom International Airport and subsequently closed in 1999...
    
     then Austin Bergstrom International Airport, Austin, Texas
    Austin, Texas
    Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of :Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 14th most populous city in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in...
    
     
  • Bar Harbor Airlines
    Bar Harbor Airlines
    Bar Harbor Airlines was a comparatively large commuter airline headquartered at Bar Harbor Airport in Trenton, Maine and later in Houston, Texas.- Early history :...
    
     originally at Bar Harbor Airport, Trenton, Maine
    Trenton, Maine
    Trenton is a town in Hancock County, Maine, United States, near Acadia National Park. The population was 1,370 at the 2000 census. Hancock County-Bar Harbor Airport is located in Trenton....
    
     then Houston, Texas.
  • Braniff International Airways
    Braniff International Airways
    Braniff International Airways was an American airline that operated from 1928 until 1982, primarily in the midwestern and southwestern U.S., South America, Panama, and in its later years also Asia and Europe...
    
    , Grapevine, Texas
    Grapevine, Texas
    Grapevine is a city in northeast Tarrant County, Texas, United States located within the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area. As of the 2010 census the city population was 46,334. The city's moniker is derived from the native grapes prevalent in the area. In recent years several wineries have...
    
     then Dallas, Texas
  • Business Express Airlines
    Business Express Airlines
    Business Express Airlines , often referred to simply as Business Express or BizEX was an American regional airline founded as Atlantic Air in 1982. In an effort to appeal with its predominantly business commuter clientele, the airline assumed the Business Express name in 1985...
    
    
  • Central Airlines
    Central Airlines
    Central Airlines was a regional airline providing service in Texas and Oklahoma from 1949 to 1967. Central was founded by Keith Kahle in 1944 to operate charter and fixed base services in Oklahoma. Due to financing difficulties, it did not begin scheduled air service until September 15, 1949, just...
    
    , Fort Worth, Texas
  • Conquest Airlines
    Conquest Airlines
    Conquest Airlines was an American regional airline initially headquartered in Jefferson County, Texas, and later headquartered in Austin, Texas...
    
    , Robert Mueller Municipal Airport
    Robert Mueller Municipal Airport
    Robert Mueller Municipal Airport served the Austin, Texas, United States, area until it was replaced by the Austin Bergstrom International Airport and subsequently closed in 1999...
    
    , Austin, Texas
    Austin, Texas
    Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of :Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 14th most populous city in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in...
    
    
  • Continental Airlines
    Continental Airlines
    Continental Airlines was a major American airline now merged with United Airlines. On May 3, 2010, Continental Airlines, Inc. and UAL, Inc. announced a merger via a stock swap, and on October 1, 2010, the merger closed and UAL changed its name to United Continental Holdings, Inc...
    
    
  • Continental Micronesia
    Continental Micronesia
    Continental Micronesia, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Continental Airlines. It operated daily flights to Honolulu, Hawaii, as well as international services to Asia, Micronesia and Australia from its base of operations at Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport on Guam, a U.S. territory in...
    
    
  • Dal Airways
  • Dallas Express Airlines
  • Davis Airlines
  • Eagle Airlines
  • Emerald Air
    Emerald Air (USA)
    Emerald Air was an airline headquartered in Austin, Texas, United States. It was formerly known as Emerald Valley Airlines. Emerald Airlines brief history is marked by arrangements to feed connecting flights into both passenger airlines and cargo airlines much larger route systems.Operations for...
    
    , Austin, Texas (Bia Cor Holdings Inc., acquired Emerald Air and changed its name to "Braniff III".)
  • Essair Airways
    Essair Airways
    Essair Airlines, incorporated in 1939, was the first airline authorized to fly as a local service carrier in the USA. It changed its name to Pioneer Airlines in 1946 and merged with Continental Airlines in 1955.-Background:...
    
    
  • Fort Worth Airlines
    Fort Worth Airlines
    Fort Worth Airlines was an airline headquartered at Meacham Field in Fort Worth, Texas, United States. In 1985 the airline had been newly established. It flew to Hobby Airport in Houston from Fort Worth and from Austin to San Antonio. Fort Worth Airlines leased four NAMC YS-11s from Mid Pacific...
    
    
  • Hood Airways
  • Kitty Hawk Airways
    Kitty Hawk Airways
    Kitty Hawks Airways was founded in 1978, and offered passenger service that year only. It was based at Dallas Love Field near Dallas in Dallas County, Texas....
    
    
  • Kitty Hawk Aircargo
    Kitty Hawk Aircargo
    Kitty Hawk Aircargo was an American cargo airline based on the grounds of Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and in Grapevine, Texas, USA. It operated domestic scheduled overnight freight services, as well as air charter services...
    
    , Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport
  • Legend Airlines
    Legend Airlines
    Legend Airlines was an airline that had its headquarters on the grounds of Dallas Love Field. Legend flew primarily from Love Field, Dallas, Texas, USA for a matter of months, during the year 2000...
    
    , Love Field, Dallas, Texas,
  • Lone Star Airlines (1960)
  • Midway Aviation
  • Muse Air, Houston, Texas (became TranStar Airlines)
  • Permian Airlines from Midland to S.A., Del Rio
  • Reno Air
    Reno Air
    Reno Air was a scheduled passenger airline headquartered in Reno, Nevada, United States.Reno Air provided service from its hubs at Reno/Tahoe International Airport in Reno, Nevada and San Jose International Airport in San Jose, California to destinations throughout the western United States, Canada...
    
    
  • Rio Airways
    Rio Airways
    Rio Airways was a regional passenger airline headquartered in Killeen, Texas, United States. This airline began operations in or before 1970, and went out of business in 1987. Rio Airways operated briefly in a code-share arrangement with Delta Air Lines whereby Rio flights were booked and sold...
    
    , Killeen, Texas
    Killeen, Texas
    Killeen is a city in Bell County, Texas, The United States. The population was 86,911 at the 2000 census. As of 2009, Killeen had 119,510 people. In 2010 Killeen's population shot to 127,921...
    
    
  • Tejas Airlines (1979-80) Fort Worth Meacham International Airport to Austin, Houston, Corpus Christi, San Antonio, and Laredo
  • Texas Star Airlines
  • TranStar Airlines
    TranStar Airlines
    TranStar Airlines was a domestic U.S. carrier based in Houston, Texas from 1981 to 1987.-History:The company was first established as a Texas-based commuter called Muse Air, but much like Southwest Airlines, only flying larger mainline equipment. Muse Air's name originates from its founder and the...
    
    , Houston, Texas
  • Trans-Texas Airways
  • Trans World Airlines
    Trans World Airlines
    Trans World Airlines was an American airline that existed from 1925 until it was bought out by and merged with American Airlines in 2001. It was a major domestic airline in the United States and the main U.S.-based competitor of Pan American World Airways on intercontinental routes from 1946...
    
    
  • UltraAir
  • Wise Airlines from Del Rio to S.A.
  • Valiant Airways, Houston, Texas (defunct and never started operations)

Firms with certificated Air (line) Carrier holdings, headquartered in Texas, but no longer in business

Dalfort Corporation d/b/a

• • Braniff Inc. Dallas, Texas then Orlando, Florida
    Orlando, Florida
    Orlando is a city in the central region of the U.S. state of Florida. It is the county seat of Orange County, and the center of the Greater Orlando metropolitan area. According to the 2010 US Census, the city had a population of 238,300, making Orlando the 79th largest city in the United States...
    
    . (partially formed from the assets of Braniff International Airways)

Exec Express II Inc., d/b/a

• • Aspen Mountain Air / Lone Star Airlines
    Lone Star Airlines
    Lone Star Airlines was an American regional airline that operated both domestic and international flights. For much of the airline's life its headquarters were located in the Fort Worth Stockyards in Fort Worth, Texas. The airline's largest hub was located at Dallas-Fort Worth International...
    
    Stillwater, Oklahoma
    Stillwater, Oklahoma
    Stillwater is a city in north-central Oklahoma at the intersection of U.S. 177 and State Highway 51. It is the county seat of Payne County, Oklahoma, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 45,688. Stillwater is the principal city of the Stillwater Micropolitan Statistical...
    
     then Fort Worth, Texas

ExpressJet Holdings

Metro Airlines

Metro Airlines

Metro Airlines, originally Houston Metro Airlines, was a commuter airline that was originally headquartered in Houston, Texas, United States, while at a later time it was headquartered on the grounds of Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and in Grapevine, Texas...

, Houston, Texas then Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport then Grapevine, Texas (evolved into an airline holding firm with the acquisition of a number of different airlines)

• • (SS) Air Northeast (Brockway Air)
  • (OY) Aviation Associates (Sunaire)
  • (FH) Chaparral Airlines
  • (FY) Metro Airlines
    Metro Airlines
    Metro Airlines, originally Houston Metro Airlines, was a commuter airline that was originally headquartered in Houston, Texas, United States, while at a later time it was headquartered on the grounds of Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and in Grapevine, Texas...
    
    
  • (FY) (Metro Airlines) Metro Express II
  • (HY) Metroflight (Metroflight)

Texas Air Corporation

• • Bar Harbor Airlines
    Bar Harbor Airlines
    Bar Harbor Airlines was a comparatively large commuter airline headquartered at Bar Harbor Airport in Trenton, Maine and later in Houston, Texas.- Early history :...
    
    
  • Britt Airways
    Britt Airways
    Britt Airways was a United States commuter airline based in Terre Haute, Indiana.In 1985, the founder and owner of Britt Airways, Bill Britt, sold the airline to People Express. Frank Lorenzo's holding company, Texas Air Corporation, acquired People Express, following Texas Air's acquisition of...
    
    
  • People Express
  • Provincetown-Boston Airlines
    Provincetown-Boston Airlines
    Provincetown-Boston Airline , or better known as PBA, was an airline that operated between 1949 and 1989. The airline operated a route network in New England, New York, Pennsylvania, and Florida, and at one time was the largest commuter airline in the United States before its purchase by People...
    
    
  • Rocky Mountain Airways
    Rocky Mountain Airways
    Rocky Mountain Airways was an American commuter airline headquartered in Hangar No. 6 of Stapleton International Airport in Denver, Colorado. It was sold to Texas Air Corporation/Continental Airlines in 1986....
    
    
  • Texas International Airlines
    Texas International Airlines
    Texas International Airlines was a United States airline, known from 1944 until 1947 as Aviation Enterprises, until 1969 as Trans-Texas Airways, and as Texas International Airlines until 1982, when it merged with Continental Airlines. It was headquartered near William P...
    
    
  • Eastern Air Lines
    Eastern Air Lines
    Eastern Air Lines was a major United States airline that existed from 1926 to 1991. Before its dissolution it was headquartered at Miami International Airport in unincorporated Miami-Dade County, Florida.-History:...
    
    
  • Frontier Airlines (1950-1986)
    Frontier Airlines (1950-1986)
    Frontier Airlines was formed from a merger of Arizona Airways, Challenger Airlines, and Monarch Airlines on June 1, 1950. They established their headquarters at Stapleton Airport in Denver. However, the airline dated itself to November 27, 1946, when Monarch Airlines began service in Colorado,...
    
    
  • New York Air
    New York Air
    New York Air was a 1980s startup airline owned by Texas Air Corporation and based at LaGuardia Airport in Flushing, Queens, New York City.-History:...
    
    

See also

• List of air carriers / air carrier parent consortium equity holding firms - headquartered in the state of Alaska
• List of air carriers / air carrier parent consortium equity holding firms - headquartered in the state of Hawaii