Post DeRegulation Air Mail First Flights - Index

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Background: The Airline Deregulation Act took effect of December 1, 1978. The main purpose of the Act was to remove government control from commercial aviation and expose the passenger airline industry to market forces. This Act changed the face of civil aviation in the US. Air Mail would continue to be carried by Air Carriers but the old system of CAM and FAM routes would evolve into Air Mail flown by individual US airlines to both domestic and foreign destinations.

Airline	Route	Date (yymmdd)
Air Florida	Amsterdam Netherlands-Miami FL	800531
Air Micronesia	Nagoya Japan-Saipan	830401
Alaska Airways	Anchorage AK-Kodiak AK	821117
Allegheny Airlines (US Air)	West Palm Beach FL-Philadelphia PA	781216
American Airlines	Salt Lake City UT	790120
America West Airlines	Phoenix AZ	891116
Arrow Air	Tampa FL-London England	821218
Braniff Airways	New York NY	781215
Capitol International Airways	New York NY-Brussels Belgium	790505
Continental Air Lines	Houston TX	790102
Delta Air Lines	Atlanta GA	790615
Eastern Air Lines	Salt Lake City UT	781213
Frontier Airlines	Denver CO	781215
Frontier Horizon	Denver CO-Chicago IL	840109
New Frontier Airlines	Denver CO-Albuquerque NM	941013
Grand Airways	Las Vegas NV	950201
Hawaiian Airlines	Honolulu HI	850612
Hughes Airwest	Tucson AZ	781215
Kiwi International Air Lines	Hamilton Bermuda-Newark NJ	950525
Markair	Anchorage AK-Fairbanks AK or Bethel AK	840301
New Midway Airlines	Raleigh NC	951001
National Airlines	New York NY-Amsterdam Nehterlands	781213
New York Air	Tampa FL-Newark NJ	841031
North Central Airlines	Tucson AZ	781215
Northeastern International Airways	Saint Petersburg FL	841115
Northwest Airlines	New York NY-Stockholm Sweden	790331
Ozark Air Lines	Saint Paul MN	781201
Pan American World Airways	New York NY-Dhahran Saudi Arabia	790202
Piedmont Aviation	Roanoke VA	781201
Reno Air	Reno NV-Las Vegas NV	931215
Republic Airlines	Las Vegas NV	800115
Southwest Airlines	Sacramento CA-Burbank CA	910617
Texas International Airlines	Houston TX-Guadalajara Mexico	781214
Trans International Airlines	New York NY-Amsterdam Netherlands	790502
Trans World Airlines	Pittsburgh PA	781215
United Airlines	Buffalo NY	781214
Vanguard Airlines	Dallas-Fort Worth	961017
Western Air Lines	Seattle WA	790615
Western Pacific Airlines	Los Angeles CA	950428
Wien Air Alaska	Boise ID-Salt Lake City UT	810915
World Airways	Baltimore MD-Frankfurt Germany or London England	810529

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