Western Air Express Corporation

found: Old Faithful Inn [postcard], [about 1970?]:verso postcard (Western Air Express post card)

found: Encyclopaedia Britinnica, website viewed July 8, 2019(Trans World Airlines, Inc.; TWA was formed on July 16, 1930, in the amalgamation of divisions of Western Air Express (founded 1925) and Transcontinental Air Transport (founded 1928); Western Air Express had flown both mail and passengers in its first year of service between Los Angeles and Salt Lake City, Utah (1926); in 1934 Western Air Express again became independent (later to be called Western Air Lines), but TWA continued as a transcontinental airline; until 1950 it was known as Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc.)

found: Wikipedia, July 8, 2019(Western Airlines; Western Airlines (IATA: WA, ICAO: WAL, Call sign: Western) was a major airline based in California, operating in the western United States; Western Airlines first incorporated in 1925 as Western Air Express by Harris Hanshue; the company reincorporated in 1928 as Western Air Express Corp; in 1930 it purchased Standard Air Lines; WAE with Fokker aircraft merged with Transcontinental Air Transport to form Transcontinental & Western Air (TWA, later known as Trans World Airlines); in 1934 Western Air Express was severed from TWA and changed its name to General Air Lines, returning to the name Western Air Express after several months; in a 1934 press release by the company, it called itself the Western Air Division of General Air Lines; In 1941 Western Air Express changed its name to Western Air Lines and later to Western Airlines; in 1967-1969 Western called itself Western Airlines International; Western was acquired by Delta Air Lines in 1987)