Midwest Airlines

Midwest Airlines was an American airline based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and a subsidiary of Republic Airways Holdings.

History

Midwest Airlines was founded in 1948 in order to save time to transport the representatives and engineers of the Kimberly -Clark Corporation between the headquarters of the company and its factories. 1969 this service KC Aviation was baptized, where one in-house workshop was established for maintenance.

After the Airline Deregulation Act in 1978, Kimberly -Clark and KC Avitation decided to create this air service from a real airline for civilian scheduled flights, but this was not implemented until 1984 with the Airline Midwest Express. The airline grew slowly through the Einflottung of Douglas DC -9 aircraft; finally operated Midwest Express most important goals in the East and Midwest of the United States.

The flights were already then advertised with the convenient 2 2 leather seating arrangement, the great legroom and the meals freshly prepared on board. The slogan of the airline was " The Best Care in the Air"; this service, the airline made ​​popular especially among business travelers. In addition to scheduled flights Midwest Express also began to receive exclusive charter flights using a specially equipped DC-9.

From the 90s the fleet was again expanded by buying McDonnell Douglas MD -80. Thus, the airline continued to grow consistently, the profitability would not be lost. At this time we founded a subsidiary, Skyway Airlines. You should act as regional transport airline and additionally carry out shuttle flights from small communities in Wisconsin and around under the name Midwest Express Connection.

After fourteen years in which one years could always end with profits, Midwest Express was confronted about the consequences of 11 September 2001 with financial problems. In order to reach the break again, the airline expanded their product; as the MD -80 were approximately reconfigured by umtauschte the leather seats in cloth seats and moved to a 2 3 seating arrangement, as well as the on-board meal was abolished in 2002.

2003 was called then, the airline of Midwest Express Midwest in what is due particularly to the fact that one associates in the U.S. " express" with a regional airline operating what Midwest, however, was not. At the same time, Skyway Airlines was renamed Midwest Connect. In order to save additional costs, you started with the first major fleet renewal by the DC-9 replaced by new and more fuel-efficient Boeing 717; the MD -80 will leave the airline soon. In May 2005, Midwest announced a new meal service on flights: A set -valuated " In-flight Cafe " includes some freshly baked chocolate chip cookies. May 23, 2006 Midwest Airlines took over one of the last two Boeing delivered 717

End of August 2007 accepted the Midwest Air Group, which controls the airlines Midwest Airlines and Midwest Express, a common Übernahmegangebot the company TPG (Texas Pacific Group ), and Northwest Airlines in the amount of 450 million dollars.

On June 23, 2009 Republic Airways Holdings announced Midwest Airlines for $ 31 million to take over.

In the spring of 2010 it was announced that Midwest is dissolved as a brand and a further subsidiary of Republic Airways Holdings owns, Frontier Airlines, merged.

Fleet

(As of January 2009)

Incidents

• On September 6, 1985, a Douglas DC- 9 crashes at startup from the Milwaukee airport, because the right engine failed during takeoff. All 39 people on board died.