List of airlines of Texas
Airline firms with certificated air carriers, headquartered, directed and operated from Texas
The following is a list of individual passenger, charter, and cargo airlines - U.S. Federal Aviation Administration United States Department of Transportation Certificated airlines, their parent company firms, consortium firms, private equity firms, or other business operating schemes, doing business as airlines, and headquartered, directed, operated and based within the U.S. State of Texas
List of firms headquartered in the state of Texas
Passenger airlines
- Southwest Airlines, Dallas Love Field, Love Field area of Dallas, Texas
- American Airlines, Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, Irving, Texas area of Dallas, Texas
- Avelo Airlines, Hollywood Burbank Airport, Burbank, California area of Greater Los Angeles, headquartered in Houston, Texas
Cargo and charter airlines
- Ameristar Air Cargo, Addison Airport
- Ameristar Jet Charter, Dallas, Texas
- Berry Aviation, San Marcos Municipal Airport, San Marcos, Texas
- C&M Airways, El Paso International Airport, El Paso, Texas
- Flexjet, Dallas, Texas
- Jet Solutions, L.L.C., Richardson, Texas Operates Flexjet 25 fleet.
- Martinaire, Addison Airport, Addison, Texas
Firms doing business as airlines through investment holdings in DOT/FAA certificated air carriers
American Airlines Group, Fort Worth, Texas commercial aviation business and airline holding companyNote: American Airlines Group also controls the brand AmericanConnection along with the former certificated airline TWA Airlines LLC,
List of defunct or merged carriers/firms - headquartered in Texas, but no longer in business
The following is a list of Air Transportation Firms certificated as FAA/DOT Certificated air carriers or doing business as similar type firms in which their primary business is an FAA/DOT Certificated Air Carrier in the conduct of commerce, based and headquartered directed from Texas. This basing and headquarter directing from Texas may be due to business acquisitions, mergers, or buyouts by; airline parent companies, airline holding companies, consortiums, private equity firms, or other strategic investment business schemes, which leave the FAA / DOT airlines air carrier operating certificate with a Texas-based firm.Former certificated air transportation firms, headquartered in Texas
- Air Alaska Pan Am Air Bridge
- AirCal
- Air Texas Fort Worth Meacham International Airport to Austin and Houston
- Amistad Airlines from Del Rio
- ATA Airlines
- Austin Express,
- Essair
- Fort Worth Airlines
- Hood Airways
- Kitty Hawk Airways
- Kitty Hawk Aircargo, Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport
- Legend Airlines, Love Field, Dallas, Texas,
- Lone Star Airlines (1960)
- Midway Aviation
- Muse Air, Houston, Texas
- Pacific Air Holdings, Dallas, Texas, airline holding company
- * Pacific Wings, Dallas, Texas, operates the following brands of the certificated air carrier Pacific Wings which provide Essential Air Services to many small communities through federally subsidized contracts;
- * GeorgiaSkies, Dallas, Texas
- * KentuckySkies, Dallas, Texas
- * New Mexico Airlines, Dallas, Texas
- * TennesseeSkies, Dallas, Texas Fort Worth Meacham International Airport to Austin, Houston, Corpus Christi, San Antonio, and Laredo ** Texas Star Airlines
- TranStar Airlines, Houston, Texas
- Trans-Texas Airways
- Trans World Airlines
- UltraAir
- Wise Airlines from Del Rio to S.A.
- Valiant Airways, Houston, Texas
Firms with certificated carrier holdings, headquartered in Texas, but no longer in business
Dalfort Corporation d/b/a- * Braniff Inc. Dallas, Texas then Orlando, Florida. Exec Express II Inc., d/b/a
- * Aspen Mountain Air/Lone Star Airlines Stillwater, Oklahoma then Fort Worth, Texas ExpressJet Holdings
- * ExpressJet Airlines Metro Airlines, Houston, Texas then Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport then Grapevine, Texas
- * Air Northeast, Aviation Associates, Chaparral Airlines, Metro Airlines, (Metro Airlines) Metro Express II, Metroflight Texas Air Corporation
- * Bar Harbor Airlines, Britt Airways, People Express, Provincetown-Boston Airlines, Rocky Mountain Airways, Texas International Airlines, Eastern Air Lines, Frontier Airlines (1950-1986), New York Air