This luggage tag is from the old commuter airline know as WestAir, which used to fly out of several California cities, including Concord.
This tag is from 1984.
Did anybody ever fly into or out of Concord on WestAir?
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I flew them a couple of times from CCR to SFO in the Islander. We disembarked at one of the main airline terminals at SFO, walked up the stairs into the terminal and then connected to a flight to somewhere else. I recall one flight that I made to Washington DC where I walked a couple of blocks, caught a County Connection bus to CCR, flew to SFO and then to Washington (now Reagan) National Airport in DC, took the Metro to my hotel, attended a meeting and then did the same in reverse. It was very convenient.
I remember PSA was out of Concord years ago, but do not recall WestAir.
My sister-in-law flew into Buchanan Airfield in 1988 when our son was born. Not sure which carrier she was on. Maybe PSA?
Yep. Took WestAir out of Concord down to Santa Barbara in 1981.
1981, does that mean @Booyah that you may have some older pictures of Concord to “share” with the Claycord Online museums (and accompanying stories too)?
No I never knew about that airline. It wasn’t a jet was it? I did fly several times with PSA later USAir out of Concord to LA. Great little flight and so nice to be at an airport close to home, and practically fly over your own home just before you land. Recently I flew JetSuiteX from Concord to Burbank on their 30 passenger jet. That is also very nice flight. I was always leery of smaller aircraft but that one is big enough and smooth and stable. It’s nice to have jet service out of Concord.
Flying out of Buchanan was great!
I never flew WestAir, but I took a PSA BAe 146 out of Buchanan to go to Disneyland. Nice! And very entertaining – the crew were having fun!
… flew in and out of there many times …. so convenient…. I can’t believe that was as noisy as some of the jets going in and out of there now
Took West Air to Chico one time. Interesting experience.
I don’t remember WestAir but I used to fly PSA from Concord to LA to roller skate at Venice Beach in the late ’70’s-early ’80’s. $18 standby. Those were the days!
I used to work on Stanwell, and I remember there was a jet departure from Buchanan every morning, right around 7 O`clock. I think it was PSA, but I’m not positive about that.
I vaguely remember (backwards) Pacific Southwest which became Southwest, and bought out a line that I don’t remember, which flew the BAC 146 and a commuter line which flew a Britain Norman Islander, think out of Pacific States Aviation, and Pacific helicopter airlines which flew a circuit continuous circuit, SFO – Lafayette –Concord. There’ a hole in my memory re: the 3 lines airlines that flew the CCR – Burbank circuit.
I remember some BAC pilots’ terrible landings that even made the controllers laugh. The 146 didn’t have thrust reversers.
PSA became US Airways which became American. Never was it part of Southwest.