Documentary: Western Airlines (2007-2007) / A Failed Washington-Based Low-cost Airline
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- Опубликовано: 14 июн 2024
- An LLC based in Bellingham, Washington quickly ran into deep trouble after beginning operations. Their time in the aviation industry was limited, as the airline only flew for 20 days. This video gives a brief description about who Western was, their service goals, what lead to their unfortunate demise, and what we've learned going forward.
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DISCLAIMER:
All rights to media used in this video belong to their respective owners (see sources list). While many clips used are my own, I don't own every picture, hence, the video and description citations.
SOME CLARIFICATIONS:
in the pictures showing Western Airlines, I used whatever picture I could find that I had permission to use and/or wasn't copyrighted. That being said, not every picture of Western is the plane in a perfect "Western" livery. After N42XA was done flying for Western, Xtra Airways leased the aircraft to Direct Air Myrtle Beach, which is why some photos show the plane in that livery.
Sources (Information)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western...)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belling...
www.aviationpros.com/home/new...
www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?do...
www.portofbellingham.com/291/...
bbjtoday.com/blog/western-air...
Sources (Images)
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All aviation/airport clips shown: Me
By Richard Silagi - www.airliners.net/photo/Wester..., GFDL, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
By Jon Proctor - Gallery page www.jetphotos.com/photo/74024... cdn.jetphotos.com/full/4/2815..., GFDL 1.2, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
www.latimes.com/archives/la-x...
By Jarron Helbock from San Diego International Airport-Lindberg Field KSAN - N42XA - 02.07.2007 - www.jetphotos.com/photo/5914618
By Konstantin von Wedelstaedt - Gallery page www.airliners.net/photo/Song-%... cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation..., GFDL 1.2, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
By Konstantin Von Wedelstaedt - Gallery page www.airliners.net/photo/Ted-%2... cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation..., GFDL 1.2, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
By Paul W Furmanski from Seatle Tacoma Int'l Airport - N42XA; 7.19.2008, www.jetphotos.com/photo/6910711
By Aero Icarus from Zürich, Switzerland - Allegiant Air MD-82; N411NV@LAS;09.10.2011/621fn, CC BY-SA 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
By WacoJacko at English Wikipedia - Own work by the original uploader (Original text: I created this work entirely by myself.), Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
By Cory W. Watts from Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America - "RubyMountain", CC BY-SA 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
By Piergiuliano Chesi, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
By Cory W. Watts from Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America - Xtra Airways brand new paint scheme!, CC BY-SA 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
By Cory W. Watts from Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America - Xtra Airways 737-400, CC BY-SA 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
By Cory W. Watts from Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America - Xtra Airways at MSP, CC BY-SA 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
By Tomás Del Coro from Las Vegas, Nevada, USA - N42XA Xtra Airways Boeing 737-429 (cn 25729/2217), CC BY-SA 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
By Cory W. Watts from Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America - XTRA airways 737-400, CC BY-SA 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
CREDIT to CACAOMEDIA for the Video clips and Motion Graphics of Credit-card scene • Free footage Paying cr...
By Eddie Maloney from North Las Vegas, USA - N401NV, CC BY-SA 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
By Tomás Del Coro from Las Vegas, Nevada, USA - N320AS Alaska Airlines 2003 Boeing 737-990 C/N 33680, CC BY-SA 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
By Alec Wilson from Khon Kaen, Thailand - N218NV (Logo jet), CC BY-SA 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
By Anna Zvereva from Tallinn, Estonia - ASL Airlines, HA-FAX, Boeing 737-476 SF, CC BY-SA 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...`
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I wish you would do the real Western Airlines, with their special FIrst Class Hawaii service.
It is like we have Eastern so why no western
@@flightforensics4523 stfu
I'm Hungarian and I live in Budapest. I see ASL's 737 planes every morning when they return to their home base. Never thought that one of them could be Western's aircraft. Thanx for this video too, I love yur channel!
I'm so happy you enjoyed. An aircraft's history can be so interesting sometimes, especially when it's previously flown with defunct airlines!
Wow, never heard of this airline! Glad I found this video though :D
Glad you learned something today! The people who ran it did too when they ran out of cash so quickly 😂😂
I had heard of them, but didn't know they only lasted twenty days. I'm surprised Delta didn't retain the Western name/brand so it couldn't be used by anyone else.
Great channel!
Surprised you do not have more subscribers.
Keep up the great mini documentaries!!
Nice flight blended real and virtual, tks sharing!
Glad you enjoyed the flight sim and real-world bits I threw in there! All that footage was actually recorded myself.
You should do more of these!
Thanks for the feedback! Maybe I will 😁
Ust subscribed. You have a great niche for aviation geeks. Thank you!!
I'm so glad you enjoyed! Not to sound cliché, but feel free to stick around cause there's a lot more avgeek content where this came from.
How about Jet America and TWA?
TWA lasted for years unlike this Airline which wasnt the original airline
i worked for Xtra and was there when the set up bli base, it cost xtra over 1mil to get it set up and western never paid a dime. we through about running it on our own as scheduled service but didnt have reservation infrastructure in place and so we operated the flight for 10 days after western defaulted as required by DOT and sent the plane to direct air. technically western operated 10 days and xtra operated 10 days of returning ticketed passengers as required under DOT part 380
Holy smokes, thanks for sharing!
You should cover the rise and fall of skybus airlines.
I want to see more.Thank you
Could you do Dragonair?
Lol, this airline reminds me to how I played Airline-Manager game. Mess up all the thing than suspend the game to redo all the things lmao 😂
P/s: you should play that game too 😉
I know what game you're talking about and I actually love that game! I have an airline that I've been managing on/off for a few years and it's pretty fun 😆
How about one on Presidential Airlines?
Great!
Others were Continental Lite, Shuttle by United
I would like to se the re-emergence of a Western Airlines ,an Eastern Airlines,a Pan Am,and a TWA.
Your wish has been partially granted....as Eastern is back!!!
I bet that neither of those two guys who started this 20 day airline had Harvard MBAs!
i miss western airline☹☹
Certainly, I, any any number of California, Oregon, BC, Alberta and Washington residents flew Western for years. It was just part of our world. (That credit card fiasco sounds like a beaurocratic, rather than a biz, problem.) I also flew turboprops with West Coast, who pretty much stuck to Washington. I loved the F27 because it's high wing allowed good viz. They could get into smaller towns in Wash. in winter, when fog sets in.
I grew up in a suburb south of Seattle, and never heard of them. 😩 🤷🏽♀️ Loved this documentary though! 🤗
They only lasted for 20 days so I could see how they wouldn't be very well known :3
In a deal valued at about $860 million, Delta Air Lines will buy Los Angeles-based Western Airlines, the nation’s oldest scheduled air carrier, the two companies announced Tuesday.
Delta purchased Western in 1986.
Maybe some start up airline calling its self Western but it was not the original Western airlines which operated for decades.
what about KingFisher ?
Sure, I'll add it to the line up!
@@andrewsaviation7792 thanks 😁
They ceased operations a day after I was born lol
Looks like Janet's livery
Sky bus
I want to join aviation and flying only two 747 and brand them Panam
That would be really awesome, not gonna exaggerate.
they could have called it Elio Airlines.
sketchy sketchy!
Bellingham to Ithaca-Cortland? No wonder it tanked, no actual aircraft notwithstanding.
Airline payments through PayPal? You’ve got to be kidding.
AC
Boo 😒 they should have a cheat line
Big oof
Yeah, one could say! "F" in the chat for these guys 😂
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Western airlines plane crash in just 20 days?
What about the flop Trump Airlines?
You mean Trump Shuttle? Which was Eastern Airlines shuttle, was purchased in bankruptcy to become Trump Shuttle, was sold to US Air to be US Air Shuttle, and is now American Shuttle? Be it Pan Am, Delta, Eastern, Trump, US Air, or American the shuttle routes have been very volatile and Pan Am Shuttle lost money the same time that Trump Shuttle did, and in the end Trump did better then Pan Am who sold out to Delta.