Service was also started from Lubbock, to Garden City, Dodge City, and Wichita, Kansas. From Lubbock, service was started to Hobbs, Roswell, Carlsbad, and Albuquerque, New Mexico as well as from Albuquerque to Clovis, NM. Lubbock, Texas where Air Midwest partnered with Braniff Airways. This new service to New Mexico was connected to the Kansas operations by serving On March 1, 1979, Air Midwest began operating several new routes in New Mexico formerly flown by Texas International Airlines. With airline deregulation in late 1978 Air Midwest saw many expansion opportunities and made a bold move by ordering ten more Metroliners.
In 1969, it changed its name to Air Midwest and ordered Beech 99 commuter turboprop aircraft to keep up with its expansion.īy 1978, it was operating a fleet of six Swearingen Metroliner commuter propjets linking smaller cities throughout Kansas to Wichita, Kansas City, MO, and Denver, CO. Īs Frontier Airlines withdrew from the western Kansas market beginning in 1968, Aviation Services moved in to assume air service. Later, Aviation Services held out for charter and in 1967 began scheduled service flying between Wichita and Salina. Using a single Cessna 206, Adamson transported human remains for area mortuaries. Air Midwest was shut down by its parent company, Mesa Airlines, in June 2008.Īir Midwest was founded in Wichita, Kansas, in May 1965 by Gary Adamson as Aviation Services Inc. It also operated feeder flights on behalf of Braniff (1983-1990) and Ozark Air Lines in addition to flying for Mesa Airlines. Besides initially flying as an independent air carrier, it later operated code sharing feeder flights on behalf of Eastern Air Lines as Eastern Air Midwest Express, on behalf of American Airlines as American Eagle, on behalf of Trans World Airlines ( TWA) as Trans World Express and on behalf of US Airways as US Airways Express. It was headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, United States, and was a subsidiary of Mesa Air Group. JSTOR ( May 2009) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Īir Midwest, Inc., was a Federal Aviation Administration Part 121 certificated air carrier that operated under air carrier certificate number AMWA510A issued on May 15, 1965.Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This article needs additional citations for verification.
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