1. "Legacy" is a stupid word to use with airlines. Call them the major 6, the big boys, anything but legacy. But, the article is from the SF Kronicle so what do you expect? 2. US Airways is one of the oldest airlines in the United States. No merger formed it. It started out as All American Aviation (or Airways) as a mail carrier. It changed it's name to Allegheny Airways. Then, the name was changed to USAir and finally US Airways. It did have some mergers along the way (Lake Central, Piedmont, PSA) but at no time was the name changed because of a merger. David R http://home.attbi.com/~damiross http://home.attbi.com/~damiross/books.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alireza Alivandivafa" <DEmocrat2n@xxxxxxx> To: <AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 22:11 Subject: Re: [AIRLINE] SF Gate: No-frills, low-cost airlines are fast gaining ground/'Regular' a... > In a message dated 8/10/2003 8:34:15 AM Pacific Daylight Time, > psa188@xxxxxxxx writes: > > << Legacy airlines -- including Alaska, American, Continental, Delta, > Northwest, United and US Airways -- lost more than 15 million passengers > overall in two years, as measured by boardings in the United States > (except Alaska) in the first quarter compared with the first quarter of > 2001. The main low-cost carriers -- America West, Air Tran, ATA, Frontier, > JetBlue, Southwest and Spirit -- held their own. >> > > Um, considering that WN is older than US (If you consider when the merger > formed US), why is it not a legacy airline? >