Bonanza Air Lines
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Bonanza Air Lines was a local service airline linking smaller communities in Arizona, Southern California and Southern Utah with the hub cities of Phoenix, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. Additionally, Bonanza was the only certificated airline to fly from Las Vegas to Reno. The airline began scheduled operations in the late 1940s and eventually merged with Pacific Air Lines and West Coast Airlines to form Air West in 1968. Air West, later Hughes Airwest, would ultimately be acquired by Republic Airlines in 1980. At the time of the merger, Bonanza operated McDonnell Douglas DC-9 and Fairchild F-27 aircraft.
