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Western Air Express

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Western Air Lines, Inc., originally incorporated as Western Air Express in 1925, was a former American airline. It pioneered the first scheduled and sustained passenger service in the United States on May 23, 1926, flying between Salt Lake City, Utah, and Los Angeles, California, with a stop in Las Vegas, Nevada.1

The company briefly became part of Transcontinental & Western Air (TWA) in 1930 but regained its independence in 1934. Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, Western Air Lines expanded its routes, eventually serving the West Coast, Rocky Mountains, northern Midwest, Alaska, Hawaii, and Miami, Florida. The airline was acquired by Delta Air Lines in 1987.1

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