Airlines of Texas

Airline firms with certificated air carriers, headquartered, directed and operated from Texas

The following is a list of individual passenger, charter, and cargo airlines - FAA / DOT Certificated Air (line) Carriers, their parent company firms, consortium firms, private equity firms, or other business operating schemes, d/b/a as airlines, and headquartered, directed, operated and based within the U.S. State of Texas

Contents

List of Air (line) Carriers / Air (line) Carrier firms - headquartered in the state of Texas

Passenger Air (line) Carriers

Cargo and Charter Air (line) Carriers

Firms doing business as Air (line) Carriers through investment holdings in DOT / FAA certificated air carriers

AMR Corporation, Fort Worth, Texas commercial aviation business and airline holding company
AMR also controls the brand AmericanConnection along with the former certificated airline TWA Airlines LLC, (formerly Trans World Airlines)
Pacific Air Holdings, Dallas, Texas, airline holding company

Firms doing business as other Air (lines) Carriers and airline carriers recently taken over by business firms controlled from outside the state of Texas

United Continental Holdings of Illinois-
Mesa Air Group of Arizona -

List of defunct or merged Air (line) Carriers / Air (line) Carrier 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 (line) Carrier transportation firms, headquartered in Texas

Firms with certificated Air (line) Carrier holdings, headquartered in Texas, but no longer in business

Dalfort Corporation d/b/a
Exec Express II Inc., d/b/a
ExpressJet Holdings
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)
Texas Air Corporation

See also

References

Mainline
Regional
Commuter
Cargo
Charter
With FAA certificated
Air Carrier holdings
FAA certificated as

 • Ameristar Air Cargo

 • Ameristar Jet Charter
Firms with certificated air carrier holdings, headquartered in Texas but no longer in business
Former certificated air carrier transportation firms headquartered in Texas
FAA / DOT Certificated Air Carrier Transportation


Airline firms

 • Air Alaska Pan Am Air Bridge

 • AirCal

 • Air Texas

 • Amistad Airlines from Del Rio

 • ATA Airlines

 • Braniff International Airways

 • Business Express Airlines

 • Central Airlines

 • Conquest Airlines

 • Continental Airlines

 • Continental Micronesia

 • Dal Airways

 • Davis Airlines

 • Eagle Airlines

 • Emerald Air

 • Essair Airways

 • Fort Worth Airlines

 • Hood Airways

 • Kitty Hawk Airways

 • Kitty Hawk Aircargo

 • Legend Airlines

 • Lone Star Airlines (1960)

 • Midway Aviation

 • Muse Air

 • Permian Airlines from Midland to S.A., Del Rio

 • Reno Air

 • Rio Airways

 • Tejas Airlines

 • Texas Star Airlines

 • TranStar Airlines

 • Trans-Texas Airways

 • Trans World Airlines

 • UltraAir

 • Wise Airlines from Del Rio to S.A.
Air transportation firms headquartered in Texas
Former air
transit firms
Dalfort Corporation
Exec Express II Inc.
Metro Airlines
Air transportation firms headquartered in Texas