In a message dated 9/10/02 11:09:48 AM US Mountain Standard Time, damiross2@attbi.com writes: > Muse Air was formed by one of the founders of Southwest > Airlines. They operated smoke-free flights before > smoking was banned on airline flights. They changed > their time to Transtar and were eventually taken over by > Southwest. The routes operated were coast-to-coast > (Florida to California), though no transcontinental non- > stop flights were operated. AIrcraft used were MD80's. > OPerations were during the 80's. Suspended services in > 1987. couple of clarifications... Lamar Muse, first president of Southwest, started Muse Air with DC-9s and MD80s out of spite and wound up selling the airline to LUV after incurring heavy losses. The original livery was a creme colored fuselage with "Muse Air" written at an angle in cursive. Very attractive. Southwest changed the livery to a very ugly purple and name to TranStar and incurred even heavier losses than Big Daddy (Lamar Muse). Herb Kelleher had the good sense to put the carrier out of shareholder's misery by shutting it down and selling Mad Dogs to Continental at verrrrry attractive prices. Continental returned the favor by getting out of LUV's hair at Hobby Field. From that time forward there has been peace and harmony between both carriers in Houston! RT Simpson Phoenix > > >