List of defunct or merged carriers/firms - headquartered in Texas, but no longer in business
The following is a list of Air Transportation Firms certificated as FAA/DOT Certificated air carriers or
doing business as similar type firms in which their primary business is an FAA/DOT Certificated Air Carrier in the conduct of commerce, based and headquartered directed from Texas. This basing and headquarter directing from Texas may be due to
business acquisitions,
mergers, or
buyouts by; airline
parent companies, airline
holding companies,
consortiums,
private equity firms, or other strategic investment business schemes, which leave the FAA / DOT airlines air carrier operating certificate with a Texas-based firm.
Former certificated air transportation firms, headquartered in Texas •
Air Alaska Pan Am Air Bridge •
AirCal •
Air Texas (1968-1970)
Fort Worth Meacham International Airport to Austin and Houston •
Amistad Airlines from Del Rio •
ATA Airlines •
Austin Express, (
Robert Mueller Municipal Airport then
Austin Bergstrom International Airport,
Austin, Texas •
Bar Harbor Airlines originally at
Bar Harbor Airport,
Trenton, Maine then Houston, Texas. •
Braniff International Airways,
Grapevine, Texas then Dallas, Texas •
Business Express Airlines •
Central Airlines, Fort Worth, Texas •
Conquest Airlines,
Robert Mueller Municipal Airport,
Austin, Texas •
Continental Airlines •
Continental Micronesia •
Dal Airways •
Dallas Express Airlines •
Davis Airlines •
Eagle Airlines •
Emerald Air, Austin, Texas (Bia Cor Holdings Inc., acquired Emerald Air and changed its name to "
Braniff III".) •
Essair •
Fort Worth Airlines •
Hood Airways •
Kitty Hawk Airways •
Kitty Hawk Aircargo, Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport •
Legend Airlines, Love Field, Dallas, Texas, •
Lone Star Airlines (1960) •
Midway Aviation •
Muse Air, Houston, Texas (became TranStar Airlines) •
Pacific Air Holdings, Dallas, Texas, airline holding company •
Pacific Wings, Dallas, Texas,(
commuter airline and operates flights in
Hawaii) operates the following brands of the certificated air carrier Pacific Wings which provide
Essential Air Services to many small communities through federally subsidized contracts; •
GeorgiaSkies, Dallas, Texas (
commuter airline which operates flights in
Georgia) •
KentuckySkies, Dallas, Texas (
commuter airline which operates flights in
Kentucky) •
New Mexico Airlines, Dallas, Texas (
commuter airline which operates flights in
New Mexico and
West Texas) •
TennesseeSkies, Dallas, Texas (
commuter airline which operates flights in
Tennessee. •
Permian Airlines from Midland to S.A., Del Rio**
Reno Air •
Rio Airways,
Killeen, Texas**
Tejas Airlines (1979–80) Fort Worth Meacham International Airport to Austin, Houston, Corpus Christi, San Antonio, and Laredo **
Texas Star Airlines •
TranStar Airlines, Houston, Texas •
Trans-Texas Airways •
Trans World Airlines •
UltraAir •
Wise Airlines from Del Rio to S.A. •
Valiant Airways, Houston, Texas (defunct and never started operations)
Firms with certificated carrier holdings, headquartered in Texas, but no longer in business •
Dalfort Corporation d/b/a •
Braniff Inc. Dallas, Texas then
Orlando, Florida. (partially formed from the assets of Braniff International Airways) •
Exec Express II Inc., d/b/a •
Aspen Mountain Air/
Lone Star Airlines Stillwater, Oklahoma then Fort Worth, Texas •
ExpressJet Holdings •
ExpressJet Airlines (prior to acquisition by SkyWest Inc.) •
Metro Airlines, 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, (FY)
(Metro Airlines) Metro Express II, (HY)
Metroflight (Metroflight) •
Texas Air Corporation •
Bar Harbor Airlines,
Britt Airways,
People Express,
Provincetown-Boston Airlines,
Rocky Mountain Airways,
Texas International Airlines,
Eastern Air Lines,
Frontier Airlines (1950-1986),
New York Air ==See also==