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Air21 Airlines was a short-lived United States airline based in
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, led by
Mark Morro Wings West Airlines was an American regional airline headquartered at McChesney Field (SBP), unincorporated San Luis Obispo County, California. The airline initially began scheduled passenger service as an independent commuter air carrier and ...
, founded by David Miller and co-founded by David J. VanderLugt. The airline operated five
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64-passenger twin engine jet aircraft.


History

Air21, named through its slogan "Your Low-Cost Carrier and Low-Cost Airline for the Twenty-First Century", was founded by David Miller in January 1994. Miller, a management pilot and executive, partnered with David J. VanderLugt, treasurer of a small startup airline in
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. In October 1994, Miller and VanderLugt filed necessary paperwork for the certification of operations with the United States Department of Transportation in Washington, D.C. The next year, in March 1995, Miller and VanderLugt along with Mark Morro and Joe Levy, CEO of
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Department Stores, released their
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prospectus for the airline. Air21 commenced passenger operations in December 1995. The crash of
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in 1996 refocused public attention on the operations of low-cost carriers. With a negative public perception increasing, passenger numbers declined. Air21 ceased operations in January 1997, whereupon it entered
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. Two months later in March 1997 a buyout of the company by investment banker David Walsh converted the airline's filing to a
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status.


Destinations

According to the Air21 March 1996 system timetable and route map, the airline operated
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jet service into the following destinations:


See also

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References

{{US-airline-stub Defunct airlines of the United States Airlines established in 1995 Airlines disestablished in 1997 Companies that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1997 Airlines based in California