People Express To Fly Again....Why?
The announcement that People Express might return as the new PeoplExpress Airlines further highlights why the airline business is just too competitive. With American Airlines recently filing for bankruptcy, why in the world would another investment group jump into the frying pan? For anybody like me that wasn't familiar with the original People Express, it was a leading lost cost carrier from the '80s that at one time was the #5 airline in the US. Excerpts on the history from Wikipedia: People Express Airlines , stylized as PEOPLExpress , also known as People Express Travel , was a U.S. no-frills airline that operated from 1981 to 1987, when it merged into Continental Airlines . The airline's headquarters was in the North Terminal of Newark International Airport in Newark, New Jersey . In 1985 People Express bought out Denver -based Frontier Airlines . The combined company became the United States' fifth largest airline, with flights to most major U.S. cit...