US Airways have quickly taken advantage of deregulation in the American aviation sector to become one of the biggest airlines in the USA. Having recently merged with America West Airlines, UA Airways has announced a hostile merger (i.e. a takeover in English English) with Delta Airlines. From a passenger perspective US Airways do everything well with many cost-savings at the expensive passenger interfaces (e.g. web and kiosk check-in) and are the US partner for the global Star Alliance of international airlines. US Airways Flights With their Headquarters in Tempe, Arizona US Airways originally had a strong East Coast network of routes (including some Caribbean destinations) but following the merger with America West there is now a balance between the cities served on either coast. Currently the fifth largest US domestic carrier and, if the Delta acquisition goes ahead, are destined to be the world’s largest airline. From a British and European perspective there are direct transatlantic flights from Glasgow, Manchester, London, Paris, Dublin, Stockholm, Shannon, Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Madrid, Munich, venice, Frankfurt and Brussels to name but a few. Within the US there are major and minor hubs at Charlotte, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Las Vegas, New York (La Guardia), Washington (Reagan) and Boston. Useful connections with US Airways include flights westward to Hawaii; south to Costa Rica and east to many destinations in the Caribbean are worth remembering. Also worth a mention is US Airways Express, not an airline as such but an association with 9 commuter and regional airlines who operate under a codeshare agreement with US Airways. These airlines are based around the US Airways hubs and focus cities in North America. US Airways Flights within America Can you call an airline which operates 4,000 daily departures, has 18 different types of aircraft and an employee roll-call of over 35,000 people ’alternative’ ? We think so, alternative doesn’t necessarily mean small and the vast number of connecting flights particularly to smaller communities within the US make this airline one of our favourite ways to cross the Atlantic and get close to where we want to go - without changing carriers. US airways is a amalgam of famous airlines from the history of US aviation including America West, Pacific Southwest, Piedmont and Allegheny - look out for more airlines being swallowed by this growing brand.
