Scenic Airlines

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Scenic Airlines
IATA YR	ICAO SCE	Callsign SCENIC
Founded		1967
Hubs		Las Vegas (Scenic Airlines)
Focus cities / secondary hubs		Reno (Scenic Airlines)
Fleet size		14 (DHC-6), 3 (BE-1900 to be discontinued)
Destinations		9 (Scenic Airlines)
Parent company		Yamagata Corp.
Headquarters		Las Vegas, Nevada
Key people		Mark Slack (President, CEO)
Website: http://www.scenic.com

Early Scenic Airways timetable, note the "Fly over the colorful West" inscription

Scenic Airlines is an American airline which is based in Las Vegas, Nevada. The airline uses (14) DHC-6-300 Twin Otters which have been converted to VistaLiners. In spring 2006, the airline announced it would be ceasing scheduled passenger operations to focus on its sightseeing flights, citing rising fuel costs thus abandoning its scheduled service using its fleet of (3) Beech 1900 flights. Almost all of the scheduled service routes were Essential Air Service routes and have been picked up by US Airways, operated by Air Midwest. Since it serves many out-of-the-way airports, Scenic was often the largest or only tenant.

Scenic Airlines is the only scheduled airline in the continental United States to service unimproved airports.

1 History
2 Scheduled Flight Destinations
3 Scheduled Sightseeing Destinations
4 Fleet
5 References
6 External links

[edit] History

Scenic Airlines was originally started during the 1930s, with the idea of giving passengers views of the Grand Canyon. It was named "Scenic Airways". In time, Scenic Airways failed, and it went bankrupt.

In 1967, after Las Vegas's scene had been reinvigorated by the presence of hotels and casinos, the airline was revived, as "Scenic Airlines" and it operated flights with a relatively low profile.

During the 1990s, the airline saw much economic growth, opening overseas offices in such places as Argentina and Japan, among other countries, and expanding services to Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix and other large, regional airports. The services to Phoenix would later be moved to Scottsdale Municipal Airport, Scenic becoming the only commercial airline into that airport.

During the late 1990s, Scenic introduced in-flight descriptions of the places they overflew on sightseeing flights in eight different languages.