People Express Airlines (1980s)
People Express Airlines (1980s)
People Express Airlines, stylized as PEOPLExpress, was a low-cost airline in the United States that operated from 1981 until it merged with Continental Airlines in 1987. Its headquarters was in the North Terminal (later Terminal C) of Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) in Newark, New Jersey.
Founding and rapid expansion
The company was founded by Don Burr, and several others, who resigned from Frank Lorenzo's Texas International in order to do so. Burr was influenced by British airline entrepreneur Freddie Laker, whose forays into low-cost air travel attracted much press in the 1970s. Terminal space was leased at Newark Airport's North Terminal.
Founding and rapid expansion
!People Express [Boeing 747 at London Gatwick Airport](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/PeopleExpressBoeing747atLondonGatwickinJune1983.jpg/250px-PeopleExpressBoeing747atLondonGatwickinJune1983.jpg)
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