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Tahoe Air was a United States airline founded by Mark Sando, who used Casino Express Airlines to fund their plane purchase. Tahoe Air offered jet flights directly out of South Lake Tahoe via the
South Lake Tahoe Airport Lake Tahoe Airport is a public airport three miles southwest of South Lake Tahoe, in El Dorado County, California. It covers and has one runway; it is sometimes called Tahoe Valley Airport. History The airport in the Sierra Nevada just so ...
. Scheduled passenger service was planned to be operated with McDonnell Douglas MD-80 jetliners; however, before any orders for MD-80s were placed, operations began with a single
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jet, registered N233TM and operated by parent company Casino Express. The lone aircraft was painted in the Tahoe Air livery. Tahoe Air made its first flight to
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) on June 25, 1999. On July 1, 1999, the airline started service to its second destination,
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(SJC). The carrier offered low fares in a two class cabin with inexpensive upgrades. However, by October 1999, the airline had ceased operations never having received any of the proposed MD-80 aircraft. The demise of Tahoe Air also marked the end of airline service to Lake Tahoe, which has not seen scheduled passenger air carrier flights since.


Destinations

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South Lake Tahoe Airport Lake Tahoe Airport is a public airport three miles southwest of South Lake Tahoe, in El Dorado County, California. It covers and has one runway; it is sometimes called Tahoe Valley Airport. History The airport in the Sierra Nevada just so ...
(TVL) *
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(SJC) * Los Angeles International Airport (LAX)


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Boeing 737-200 The Boeing 737 is a narrow-body aircraft produced by Boeing at its Renton Factory in Washington. Developed to supplement the Boeing 727 on short and thin routes, the twinjet retains the 707 fuselage width and six abreast seating with two u ...
(one aircraft)


See also

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Tahoe Air 1999 TimetablePhotos of Tahoe Air
{{US-airline-stub Airlines disestablished in 1999 Airlines established in 1999 Defunct airlines of the United States Defunct companies based in Nevada 1999 establishments in Nevada