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Walter Thomas Varney (December 26, 1888 – January 25, 1967) [1] [2] was an American aviation pioneer who founded forerunners of two major U.S. airlines, United Airlines [3] and Continental Airlines, [4] which combined under United Continental Holdings long after his death.
Walter Thomas Varney (26 de diciembre de 1888 - 25 de enero de 1967) fue un pionero de la aviación estadounidense que fundó los precursores de dos aerolíneas estadounidenses importantes, United Airlines y Continental Airlines, que se combinaron bajo United Continental Holdings durante mucho tiempo.
United was formed by the amalgamation of several airlines in the late 1920s, the oldest of these being Varney Air Lines, created in 1926 by Walter Varney who later co-founded the predecessor to Continental Airlines.
6 de abr. de 2018 · Varney Air Lines, founded by Walter T. Varney, was one of the first private airlines to win an airmail contract from the U.S. Post Office Department. On April 6, 1926, it made the first scheduled delivery of airmail by a civilian in the U.S. from Pasco, Washington to Elko, Nevada.
23 de ene. de 2021 · Walter Thomas Varney was an aviation pioneer and founded what later became Continental Airlines. Walter Thomas Varney served as a pilot in the Aviation Section of the US Signal Corps during the First World War. Following the conflict, he established an aviation school and air taxi service in northern California.
Walter Thomas Varney (26 de diciembre de 1888 - 25 de enero de 1967) fue un pionero de la aviación estadounidense que fundó las precursoras de dos importantes aerolíneas estadounidenses, United Airlines y Continental Airlines, que se combinaron bajo United Continental Holdings durante mucho tiempo .
Other articles where Walter T. Varney is discussed: Continental Airlines, Inc.: …to Varney Airlines, incorporated by Walter T. Varney in 1934. Later it came under the control of Robert Forman Six (president 1938–82), who gave the airline the name Continental and, in the following decades, transformed the shoestring operation into one of the major American transportation companies ...
