PSA Airlines

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For the defunct airline, see Pacific Southwest Airlines

PSA Airlines

IATA US	ICAO JIA	Callsign BLUE STREAK
Founded		1980
Hubs		Charlotte/Douglas International Airport
Focus cities		Pittsburgh International Airport Philadelphia International Airport Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport
Frequent flyer program		Dividend Miles
Member lounge		US Airways Club
Alliance		Star Alliance
Fleet size		49
Destinations
Parent company		US Airways Group
Headquarters		Vandalia, Ohio
Key people		Keith Houk (CEO) Derek Kerr (CFO)
Website: http://www.psaairlines.com

PSA Airlines is an American regional airline based in Vandalia, Ohio, USA that flies under US Airways Express brand for US Airways. PSA is wholly owned by US Airways Group. PSA has crew bases in Knoxville, Tennessee, Charlotte, North Carolina and Dayton, Ohio. It has maintenance bases in Charlotte, North Carolina, Dayton, Ohio, and at the Akron-Canton Regional Airport in Green, Ohio.

In addition to flying commuter aircraft for US Airways, PSA operates several ground stations on their behalf in the eastern United States, including the express operation at US Airways' Pittsburgh International Airport secondary hub.^{[citation needed]}

1 History
2 Destinations
3 Fleet
4 External links
5 References

[edit] History

The airline was established in 1979 as Vee Neal Airlines (named after its owner vee Neal Frey) and began operating from Latrobe, Pennsylvania. On 1 May 1980 the operation was expanded to include scheduled air services between Latrobe and Pittsburgh with a Cessna 402. The airline was renamed to Jetstream International Airlines (JIA) in December, 1983 to reflect the fact that it had just taken delivery of two Jetstream aircraft. A year later the airline moved from Latrobe to Erie, Pennsylvania. On 26 September 1985 the airline affiliated itself with Piedmont Airlines and on 1 August 1986 JIA became a wholly owned subsidiary. Following the USAir acquisition of Piedmont in November 1987, JIA began operating as Allegheny Commuter from the USAir hub in Philadelphia. On 1 July 1988 JIA became a wholly owned subsidiary of USAir and began operating in the colors of US Air Express, later US Airways Express ^[1]. On November 1, 1995 USAir renamed the recently acquired JIA to PSA in order to protect the trademark of Pacific Southwest Airlines, which was once a large carrier on the West Coast that USAir had acquired. Since the acquisition by US Airways, PSA has transitioned from a fleet of turboprop aircraft to an all-jet fleet. ^[2]