Leisure Air
Beginning as a charter airline, the company expanded to offer scheduled service to major cities as a discount carrier.Part of its strategy was to control costs by contracting out its reservations service and renting airport counter space from other carriers for $150 a flight.When the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) found irregularities in the maintenance records of the McDonnell Douglas DC-10s, the operating license for the DC-10s and Boeing 757s were withdrawn.The safety violations were found during an inspection relating to the airline's planned move from Winston-Salem to McLean, Virginia.On November 25, 1994, the FAA announced it had allowed Leisure Air to resume flying some of its planes, and said it would closely monitor the airline to assure safe operations.
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