23 Facts About Midwest Airlines

Midwest Airlines was a U S -based airline headquartered in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, that operated from Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport between 1984 and 2010.

Midwest Airlines began in 1948, when Kimberly-Clark began providing air transportation for company executives and engineers between the company's Neenah, Wisconsin headquarters and its mills.

In 1989, Midwest Airlines Express added two McDonnell Douglas MD-80 aircraft to its fleet, acquiring eleven additional aircraft between 1998 and 2001.

Skyway was a division of Mesa Midwest Airlines using Beechcraft 1900 aircraft providing service to small communities in Wisconsin and the surrounding region.

Midwest Airlines Express experienced steady growth and continued profitability, opening an additional hub in Omaha, Nebraska in early 1995.

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In 1994 Midwest Express established Astral Aviation to take over the operation of Skyway Airlines, dba Midwest Express Connection and Fairchild Dornier 328JETs were added in 1999.

Midwest Airlines Express added Midwest Airlines Vacations in the 1990s, naming GOGO Worldwide Vacations as the original partner to provide hotel service and later partnering with Mark Travel.

Midwest Airlines Vacations continues to operate as a vacation provider.

In 1997, according to the Midwest Airlines Express timetable, the airline was code sharing with Virgin Atlantic Airways for flights between London Heathrow Airport and Milwaukee and Kansas City with passengers connecting between the two air carriers in Boston.

Midwest Airlines Express was serving the following destinations in October 1984:.

Midwest Airlines announced that selected MD-80 aircraft would leave the fleet.

In May 2005, Midwest Airlines announced a new buy-on-board meal service for customers.

Midwest became the largest longstanding operation at Mitchell Airport and served 21 cities nonstop, while its regional partner Skyway Airlines, operating as Midwest Connect, served nearly 30 destinations throughout the Central United States.

Midwest Airlines placed its code on Northwest flights from Indianapolis, then a Northwest focus city, as well as a number of Northwest-operated flights to Hawaii and Alaska.

Routes operated by Midwest Airlines that carried the NW Northwest code were flights that connected at Midwest's Milwaukee and Kansas City hubs, as well as Omaha, a Midwest focus city.

Midwest Airlines became a wholly owned subsidiary of Republic Airways and continued to operate under current branding.

Republic began operating twelve 76-seat Embraer ERJ-170 jets under the Midwest Airlines Connect name while Midwest Airlines returned its 25 Boeing 717 planes to Boeing under a lease renegotiation.

Midwest Airlines Express' original livery consisted of dark blue on the upper half, and white on the lower half.

In 2003, Midwest Express Airlines began to create a new identity, as the first Boeing 717s were being delivered, and the DC-9 aircraft were being retired.

Midwest Airlines started with removing the "Express" from its name, and it designed a new logo that would help point it out as a representative of Milwaukee.

The majority of Midwest Airlines routes were operated by Midwest Connect through outsourcing, allowing Midwest to advertise and maintain a route system similar to what existed prior to Midwest Air Group's takeover by Texas Pacific Group: The Boeing 717 aircraft were replaced by the Airbus A319 flown by Frontier Airlines and 15 Embraer 190 aircraft flown by Republic Airlines.

Until 2002, Midwest Airlines Express served gourmet meals on china along with complimentary alcoholic beverages.

Midwest Airlines Miles was unusual in that it had links to the Amtrak program.