Universal Airlines (United States)
A Houston-based commuter air carrier also used the Universal name during the late 1970s operating scheduled passenger service in Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas.[3][4] A name change was filed with the State of Michigan effective 29 December 1966 in the name of Universal Airlines, Inc.[5] The fleet originally comprised C-46, DC-6, DC-7, and Argosy AW650 aircraft to which Lockheed Electras were added.[7] In 1969 Universal took delivery of DC-8 aircraft both standard and stretched versions, and leased three additional DC-8s over the next three years.Unfortunately, the CAB took a long time to approve the merger, meaning the 1971 summer charter season performed less well than expected.The airline collapsed one day before the CAB announced that it would, in fact, permit Universal to continue to operate charters across the Atlantic.
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