WESTERN Airlines 1978 ANNUAL REPORT airlines airways ad DELTA

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Western Airlines
1978 corporate annual report
VERY GOOD condition, as shown.
This is an original Western Airlines publication.
Not a reproduction
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Dated March 15, 1979, reflecting the financial performance of the company for calendar year ending December 31, 1978.
Measures 11.0 INCHES by 8.5 INCHES.  Book-style, opening to 17.0 INCHES wide.  Contains 32 pages.
Report will be wrapped in plastic and securely packaged in cardboard for protection while in transit.  I am happy to combine shipping on multiple purchases.  If you have any questions, please ask.
Western Airlines was a major airline based in California, operating in the western United States including Alaska and Hawaii, and western Canada, as well as to New York City, Boston, Washington, D.C., and Miami and to Mexico, London and Nassau, Bahamas.  Western had hubs at Los Angeles International Airport, Salt Lake City International Airport, and the former Stapleton International Airport in Denver.  Before it merged with Delta Air Lines in 1987 it was headquartered at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).   Throughout the company's history, their slogan was "Western Airlines...The Only Way to Fly!"
In 1925 the United States Postal Service began to give airline contracts to carry airmail throughout the country. Western Airlines first incorporated in 1925 as Western Air Express by Harris Hanshue.  It applied for, and was awarded, the 650-mile long Contract Air Mail Route #4 (CAM-4) from Salt Lake City, Utah, to Los Angeles.  On 17 April 1926, Western's first flight took place with a Douglas M-2 airplane.  It began offering passenger services a month later, when the first commercial passenger flight took place at Woodward Field. Ben F. Redman (then president of the Salt Lake City Chamber of Commerce) and J.A. Tomlinson perched atop U.S. mail sacks and flew with pilot C.N. "Jimmy" James on his regular eight-hour mail delivery flight to Los Angeles.  By the mid 1930s, Western Air Express had introduced new Boeing 247 aircraft.
The company reincorporated in 1928 as Western Air Express Corp.  In 1930 it purchased Standard Air Lines, a subsidiary of Aero Corp. of Ca., founded in 1926 by Paul E. Richter, Jack Frye and Walter Hamilton.  WAE with Fokker aircraft merged with Transcontinental Air Transport to form Transcontinental & Western Air (TWA, later known as Trans World Airlines).
In 1934 Western Air Express was severed from TWA and changed its name to General Air Lines, returning to the name Western Air Express after several months.  In a 1934 press release by the company, it called itself the Western Air Division of General Air Lines.  Its route map ran San Diego to Los Angeles to Salt Lake City.
In 1937 Western merged National Parks Airways, which extended its route north from Salt Lake to Great Falls, and, in 1941, across the border to Lethbridge, Alberta.  In 1941 Western Air Express changed its name to Western Air Lines and later to Western Airlines.  In 1967-69 Western called itself Western Airlines International.