![]() ![]() With advice from the United States Department of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administration, the Kiwi Acquisition Group decided to start a new airline from scratch rather than buy a failing carrier. Its offer was rejected in favor of Delta Air Lines offer for Pan Am including its shuttle operation. The group presented a Kelso and Company-backed $100 million offer to Pan Am for the Shuttle. Originally, the intent of the Kiwi Founders (known as the Kiwi Acquisition Group) was to purchase the Pan Am Shuttle (which flew exclusively between New York LaGuardia, Boston Logan, and Washington National) out of the Pan Am bankruptcy. History Promotional button for Kiwi International Airlines, circa 1994. In its brief history, the airline flew 8 million passengers without incident. The former airline pilots originally formed a group and called themselves Kiwis because they were no longer flying, just like the flightless Kiwi birds. Kiwi International Air Lines was founded by a group of Eastern Air Lines pilots in a plan to re-employ former Eastern pilots, flight attendants, managers, and other contract and non-contract employees who had lost their jobs when Eastern Air Lines went into bankruptcy in 1989. It had its headquarters in the Hemisphere Center in Newark, New Jersey adjacent to Newark Liberty International Airport. ![]() Kiwi International Air Lines ( IATA: KP, ICAO: KIA, Call sign: Kiwi Air) was a Part 121 American airline that operated from Septem to March 24, 1999. Robert Iverson (President 1992-1995), Jerry Murphy (President 1995-1998), Charles C. For Czech online travel tech company, see. For New Zealand airline of the same name operating between 1994-1996 on trans- Tasman routes, see Kiwi Travel International Airlines. This article is about a defunct airline based in the United States. ![]()
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