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Pacific Southwest Airlines

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Fleet size not recorded
Founded
6 May 1949 in San Diego, California
Callsign
PSA
Headquarters
San Diego, California, United States
Hubs and bases
Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco
Ceased operations
9 April 1988 (merged into USAir)

What they fly

  • BAe 146-200 22
  • McDonnell Douglas MD-81 21
  • McDonnell Douglas MD-82 10
  • McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 4
  • BAe 146-100 1

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About the airline

Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) was a low-cost airline in the United States headquartered in San Diego, California, that operated from 1949 to 1988. Founded by Kenny Friedkin and J. Floyd Andrews, it was the first substantial scheduled discount airline. PSA called itself "The World's Friendliest Airline" and painted a smile on the nose of its airplanes, the PSA Grinningbirds. The Los Angeles Times called PSA "practically the unofficial flag carrier airline of California for almost forty years". For three quarters of its existence, PSA operated as a California intrastate airline. PSA's early success as an intrastate airline served as a model for Southwest Airlines, which did in Texas what PSA had done in California. After the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978, PSA expanded to cities in other US western states and Mexico. However, PSA's performance in the new deregulated era was disappointing relative to that of Southwest and PSA's former fellow California intrastate carrier AirCal. In 1986, USAir agreed to purchase PSA, the transaction closed in 1987 and PSA was integrated into USAir in 1988. The PSA acquisition gave USAir a network on the West Coast, but by 1991 USAir…

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