West Air, Inc. is an American

airline An airline is a company that provides civil aviation, air transport services for traveling passengers and freight. Airlines use aircraft to supply these services and may form partnerships or Airline alliance, alliances with other airlines for ...

based in

Fresno, California Fresno () is a major city in the San Joaquin Valley of California, United States. It is the county seat of Fresno County and the largest city in the greater Central Valley region. It covers about and had a population of 542,107 in 2020, makin ...

, owned by

Empire Airlines Empire Airlines is a passenger and cargo airline based in Hayden, Idaho, near Coeur d'Alene. It operates over 120 scheduled cargo flights a day in 18 US states and Canada. Empire also started passenger service within Hawaii, under the name "Oha ...

. It provides feeder service on behalf of

FedEx Express FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corporation, is a major American cargo airline based in Memphis, Tennessee, United States. As of 2020, it is one of the world's largest airlines in terms of fleet size and freight tons flown. It is the name ...

throughout California and parts of Nevada and Utah.

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12–18 April 2005

History

The airline also operated from

Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...

through its associate company

Westair de Mexico Westair de México S.A de C.V. was a Mexican airline that operated cargo flights on behalf of FedEx Express. History Westair de México was established in 1957 as Transportes Aéreos del Centro de México (TACMSA), but several technical problems ...

(now defunct) with

Fairchild Metro III The Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner (previously the Swearingen Metro and later Fairchild Aerospace Metro) is a 19-seat, pressurized, twin-turboprop airliner first produced by Swearingen Aircraft and later by Fairchild Aircraft at a plant in San ...

aircraft. On 31 December 2021, West Air was acquired by

Fleet

As of September 2015 the West Air fleet includes:

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* Cargo airlines of the United States Companies based in Fresno County, California Companies based in Fresno, California Airlines based in California Airlines established in 1988 {{US-airline-stub