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Frontier Airlines First Flight Miles City Montana - Billings - 1954

$ 1.32

Availability: 50 in stock
  • Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
  • Item must be returned within: 14 Days
  • Grade: Ungraded
  • Restocking Fee: No
  • All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
  • Type: Transportation
  • Refund will be given as: Money Back
  • Country: United States
  • Exact Topic: Aviation History
  • Quality: First Flight Cover
  • Exact Type: Postal History
  • Place of Origin: United States
  • Topic: Frontier Airlines
  • Certification: Uncertified

    Description

    On September 15, 1954, Frontier Airlines expanded service eastward into the Williston Basin area by inaugurating a new segment of Air Mail Route 73 from Billings to Bismarck / Mandan, via Miles City, Glendive, Sidney, Williston and Dickinson.
    T
    his cover was carried on the inaugural
    Frontier Airlines
    flight from Miles City, Montana to Billings, Montana
    (where it was backstamped)
    and
    is listed in the Contract Mail Mail Flights (CAM) Section of The American Air Mail Catalogue as 73W26.
    Frontier Airlines’ shareholders and the Department of Transportation approved the airlines’ merger with People Express on Tuesday, November 21, 1985, officially ending Frontier Airlines’ 39-year era as one of the west’s major independent air carriers. People Express, based in Newark, N.J., bought the Denver-based Frontier Airlines on October 9, outbidding Texas Air Corporation and a coalition of Frontier unions. With the Department of Transportation’s actions, Frontier Airlines officially became a wholly owned subsidiary of People Express, Inc.
    On August 24, 1986 Frontier Airlines ceased operations and released all of its employees as the result of financial difficulties. On August 28, 1986, the airline filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 11 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code.
    On October 17, 1986, the bankruptcy court approved the purchase by Continental Airlines’ parent corporation, Texas Air, of the assets of Frontier Airlines. The Frontier acquisition was one of several conditions established by Texas Air as requirements for its acquisition of People Express, Inc., Frontier’s parent company. The equipment and routes of Frontier were sold to Continental Airlines which reinstated many of the old Frontier routes using the purchased Frontier equipment and by rehiring many of the old Frontier employees.