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 Nation's Shortest Coast-to-Coast Airway 
APPROXIMATELY MAY 1, 1945, vVestern Air 
Lines will inaugurate service between Los Angeles 
and Denver over its new, direct "cut-off" route. 
Initial operations will be restricted to mail and cargo 
flights but deluxe passenger service will be added as 
soon as the necessary four-engined airplanes are 
available. 
Following the short Great Circle route, Western's 
Los Angeles-Denver "cut-off" is 2 39 miles shorter 
and 2 hours faster than the present circuitous rout- 
ing. This saving will benefit millions of travelers who 
will use this natural trade and travel artery between 
Southern California and the East. 
Traversing, as it does, one of the most beautiful 
and least known sections of the West, the Los 
Angeles-Denver "cut-off" will undoubtedly rank as 
one of the most scenic airways on the globe, offering 
such outstanding attractions as Zion and Bryce 
National Parks, the famous Horseshoe Bend of the 
Green River, Holy Cross Mountain, Rocky Moun- 
tain National Park and many others. 
First conceived and surveyed by Western Air Lines 
in 1936, the award of the Lo Angeles-Denver "cut- 
off" is another milestone in Western's long list of 
pioneering achievements and one that will have an 
important influence on the future of your company. 
 To Tl-f E 
MARCH 23, 1945 
* There is submitted here- 
with Consolidated Profit and Loss Statement 
of your Company for the calendar ear 1944, 
including the operations of Inland Air Lines, 
Inc., a subsidiary, from June 1, 1944, together 
with the Consolidated Balance Sheet of the 
Company as of December 31, 1944, to which 
is appended the report of Messrs. Peat, far- 
wick and Mitchell & Co., accountants and au- 
ditors. 
Operations of the Company for the year 
1944, including seven months' operation of 
Inland Air Lines, Inc., resulted in a net profit 
of $13 5,827-54 after all taxes and charges in- 
cluding provision of $321,321.53 for depre- 
ciation and $165,876-48 for estimated Federal 
income taxes for the year 1944, in comparison 
the year of 1943 resulted in a net profit of 
$90,194.05 after provision of $203,886.31 for 
depreciation and $48,087-24 for Federal in- 
come taxes. 
The impro, ement in net income is largel) 
the result of additional schedules made pos- 
sible by the return of airplanes by the Army 
Air Forces and the inauguration of service be- 
t\, een Los Angeles and San Francisco on May 
l, 1944 
The following explanatory comments and 
the graphs and statistics submitted herev, ith 
include operations of Inland Air Lines, Inc., 
for the seven months ended December 31, 
1944 whereas prior years' comparisons have 
not been adjusted to reflect the operating re~ 
sults of this newly acquired subsidiary. 
REVENUES 
* Contini.1ing high load factors re- 
sulting from abnormal war traffic, together 
with the inauguration of scheduled service be- 
 tween Los Angeles and San Francisco, effec- 
tive May 1, 1944, and the addition of seheclulcs 
made possible by the return of airplanes from 
the U. S. Army Air Forces, combined to in- 
crease the revenues of your Company to an 
all-time high. The gross revenues, totalled 
$4,257,654.60 as compared with $2,155,- 
211.99 for 1943, or an increase of 97.55% 
Passenger revenue, which contributed 
74-43 % of the total, amounted to $3, 168,- 
828.29 as against $1,709,402.01, an increase 
of 85.38%. Mail revenue amounted to $836,- 
5 56.04, as compared to $260,906.27 in 1943. 
Of the 1944 total, $318,297.50 was received 
by Inland Air Lines, Inc. 
OPERATING EXPENSES 
* The expansion in fa- 
cilities and services, together with a rising 
trend in wages and costs of materials, person- 
nel training and turnover, caused a substan- 
tial increase in total operating expense which 
rose from $2,073,105.24 in 1943 to a total of 
$4,022,849.28 in 1944. 
FINANCIAL POSITION * The attached Con- 
solidated Balance Sheet of your Company as 
of December 31, 1944, shows current assets of 
$1,827,911.31, including cash of $398,762.81 
as against current liabilities of $1,145,823.09. 
As of December 31, 1943 current assets 
amounted to $1,767,264.24, including cash 
of $342,257-47 as against current liabilities of 
1,027,887.94. 
EQUIPMENT *On December 12, 1944 your 
Company entered into a contract with the 
Douglas Aircraft Company for the purchase 
of five Douglas DC-4 and five DC-6 airplanes. 
This contract will involve an expenditure of 
$4,650,000.00, of which approximately 2 5 % 
must be paid when construction of the air- 
planes commences and the remaining 7 5 % 
on delivery. The construction and delivery of 
these airplanes is dependent upon approval 
by the Army Air Forces, governed by the prog- 
ress of the war, and it is presently estimated 
that no deliveries will be received until 1946. 
It is contemplated that the purchase of these 
airplanes will be financed through equipment 
loans. 
During 1944 the Army Air Forces released 
five Douglas DC-3, twenty-one passenger air- 
planes to your Company, including one for 
Inland Air Lines, Inc. As of December 31, 
1944 Western operated eight Douglas DC- 
3' s, including one undergoing conversion, and 
Inland operated two Lockheed Lodestar, 14- 
passenger airplanes, one Douglas DC-3 and 
one Stinson single motor airplane. 
Since January 1, 1945 the Army has released 
three additional Douglas DC-3 airplanes to 
your Company which are now undergoing 
overhaul and conversion. 
1941 
1942 
1943 
1944 
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943,415 POUNDS 
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1941. 
821,514 POUNDS 
 The five airplanes received from the Army 
in 1944, were purchased at a cost of $2r-::o,- 
3 78.16. An additional amount of $204,897-44 
was expended for overhaul and conversion. 
The remaining Douglas DC-3' s being received 
in 194 5 are to be purchas~cl or leased, depend- 
ing on the basis on which they are obtainable, 
which information is now being developed by 
the Army. 
ADDED SERVICE 
* The newly acquired Los 
Angeles to San Francisco service was inaugu- 
rated with three round trips daily on May 
1st, which was doubled in November, 1944. 
One round trip daily was added to the Los 
Angeles-Salt Lake route, making a total of 
five round trips operated as of December 31, 
1944. The Salt Lake-Lethbridge service was 
improved with an additional round trip be- 
tween Salt Lake and Butte. The service on the 
routes of Inland was augmented with an addi- 
tional daily round trip between Denver and 
Great Falls, two additional round trips be- 
1941 
1942 
1943 
1944 
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tween Cheyenne and Denver, and in Novem- 
ber the exclusive mail operation between 
Cheyenne and Huron was converted to a pas- 
senger-mail-express service. 
NEW ROUTES 
* On May 2 3, 1944 the Civil 
Aeronautics Board approved the application 
of your Company to acquire controlling inter- 
est in Inland Air Lines, Inc., which operates 
between Denver, Colorado and Great Falls, 
Montana and between Cheyenne, Wyoming 
and Huron, South Dakota. As of December 
31, 1944 your Company owned 149,117 
shares, or 90.8 % of the outstanding 164,218 
shares of Inland. Offers have been made to the 
remaining shareholders to purchase their stock 
under identical terms and conditions by which 
your Company purchased the stock it now 
owns at a price of approximately $2. 53 per 
share. 
On ovember 11, 1944 the Civil Aeronau- 
tics Board awarded your Company the 884- 
mile route between Los Angeles and Denver 
1941 
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airline companies, also applicants for the route, 
filed petitions for a reconsideration or rehear- 
ing but these were denied by the CAB on Janu- 
ary 2 3, 1945. 
This route is of considerable importance to 
your Company as it insures its continued par- 
ticipation in the heavy transcontinental traffic, 
connects at Denver with the operation of In- 
land Air Lines and the profits expected frqm 
the Los Angeles-Denver route should help to 
support certain other routes now operated in 
sparsely populated areas. 
It is contemplated that passenger service 
over the route will be conducted with four- 
engine Douglas Airplanes, but the probable 
date for inauguration of this service is uncer- 
tain in view of present Army restrictions on 
release of this type of equipment to airlines for 
commercial use. 
ew service authorized in May, 1943 to 
include San Bernardino, Palm Springs and El 
Centro has been delayed due to shortage of 
equipment. 
Applications are pending before the Civil 
Aeronautics Board for the following additional 
routes: 
(a) Between Los Angeles, California and 
Rio de J aniero, Brazil and Buenos Aires, 
Argentina via La Paz and Mexico City, 
Mexico; Guatemala City, Guatemala; 
San Jose, Costa Rica; Balboa, Canal 
Zone; Bogota, Columbia; Iquitos, Peru; 
Cobija and Santa Cruz, Bolivia; Asun- 
cion, Paraguay; Curitiba, Sao Paulo and 
Porto Alegre, Brazil; and Montevideo, 
Uruguay. 
(b) Between Salt Lake City, Utah and Al- 
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EQQIPMENT 
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INSURANCE 
buquerque, New Mexico, via Provo and 
Price, Utah; Grand Junction, Montrose 
and Durango, Colorado. 
Between Sheridan, Wyoming and Rapid 
City, South Dakota. 
Between Cheyenne, Wyoming and Den- 
ver, Colorado. 
Between Los Angeles, California and 
Honolulu, T. H. and between San Fran- 
cisco, California and Honolulu, T. I I. 
Between San Francisco, California and 
Seattle, Washington via Sacramento and 
Chico, California; Klamath Falls, Bend, 
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The Dalles and Portland, Oregon; As- 
toria, Aberdeen-Hoquiam and Olympia, 
Washington. Also, between San Fran- 
cisco, California and Seattle, Washing- 
ton via Oakland, Santa Rosa and Eureka, 
California; North Bend, Marshfield, Al- 
bany, Corvallis and Portland, Oregon. 
(g) Between Seattle, Washington and Great 
 
Falls, Montana via Spokane, Washing- 
ton, Coeur D' Alene, Idaho and Kalis- 
pell, Montana . 
(h) Between San Francisco, California and 
Butte, Montana via Oakland and Sac- 
ramento, California; Reno, Nevada and 
Boise, Idaho. 
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Francisco, California. 
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(j) Between Los Angeles, California and 
San Francisco, California via Ventura, 
Santa Barbara, Santa Maria, San Luis 
Obispo, Paso Robles, Coalinga, King 
City, Monterey, Santa Cruz, San Jose 
and Palo Alto, California. 
(k) Between Lethbridge, Canada and ome, 
Alaska via Calgary, Edmonton and 
Grand Prairie, Canada; and Juneau, 
Anchorage and McGrath, Alaska, with 
supplementary service between Anchor- 
age and Fairbanks, Alaska. 
(1) Between Seattle, Washington and 
Nome, Alaska via Ketchikan, Juneau, 
Anchorage and McGrath, Alaska with 
supplementary service between Anchor- 
age and Fairbanks, Alaska. 
(m) Between Denver, Colorado and Minne- 
apolis-St. Paul, Minnesota via Ft. Mor- 
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gan, and Sterling, Colorado; orth 
Platte and Iorfolk, Iebraska; Sioux 
City, Iowa and Mankato, 1innesota. 
( n) Between Huron, South Dakota and Chi- 
cago, Illinois via 1itchell and Yankton, 
South Dakota; Sioux City, Ft. Dodge, 
\1/ aterloo and Dubuque, Iowa and 
Rockford, Illinois. 
( o) A number of secondary routes and addi- 
tional cities as intermediate stops on ex- 
isting routes. 
As of the date of this letter, hearings have 
been held on all of the above applications. o 
prediction can be made as to when the Civil 
Aeronautics Board will make decisions or what 
such decisions may be. 
THE ORGANIZATION 
* \Ve wish to express 
our appreciation to our employees who have so 
loyally and energetically met the challenge of 
1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 
increased work and responsibilities created by 
war conditions. The number of employees of 
your Company totalled 1120 as of December 
31, 1944, including 210 employees of Inland 
Air Lines. 
OUTLOOK FOR THE FUTURE 
* Your Com- 
pany can anticipate an expansion in its busi- 
ness due to acquisition of additional airplanes 
1940 
5/ 26/ 42. rmy req- 
uisitions 7 % of 
\Vestern' s 1 lanc 
eqwprnen . 
1941 1942 
mes. 
1a eel 
p- 
Air 
11/11/44. warded 
Los Angele -Denver 
route estab ishin 
1943 1944 
and the activation of new routes. However, the 
near capacity traffic loads which it has experi- 
enced during the past several years due to ab- 
normal ,~,ar conditions may be expected to 
level out as additional airplanes become avail- 
able to the airlines or the war terminates. 
~d~ 
' PRESIDENT 
 ARMY AIR FORCES 
HEADQUA .. T&RS. AL.AaKAN WING 
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330,13 5 June 1944, 
Commendation. 
Mr. L. D, Carlson, 
Superintendent Militu,' Cargo Dirlllion, 
Western Air Linea, 
Edmonton, Alberta., C&Jl&da 
1. Thia Bee.dquartera desires to commend 7ou e.nd 7our 
men for the excellent opere.tion of C-47 aircraft No. 8493. 
:2. Figures have been submitted showing an overe.ll 
e.vere.ge of 15,9 hours per da7 for the period 30 March 1944 to 
l June 1944, The goe.l of this CoD1I1and has been set for a 
de.ily avere.ge of 15 hours per day, and 7ou have exceeded that 
by ,9 hours. 
3, Data on this operation is being forwarded to ATC 
Headquarters 1n Washington as a matter of interest and infor- 
mation . 
4. An operating record such as this is e. source of 
pride and se.tisfaction to f.he Ale.skan Wing, and 7our efforts 
are greatly appreciated by this Co111118nd, 
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EDMONTON 
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1 SET: L. D. Carlson, (left), 
Superintendent of \Vesteru 
Air Lines' Military Cargo 
Division, gives some point- 
ers on Alaskan flying to 
Captain Carl Eaker. 
ON DECEMBER 7, 1941 Western Air Lines went to war. 
.,. 
It felt the rude impact of military necessity on that very 
first day when its planes were requisitioned to fly clesper- _, 
ately needed ammunition to the Pacific Coast. It felt the 
impact again a few months later when the Japs invaded the 
Aleutians. Ten airlines, \Vestern among them, cancelled 
domestic schedules and flew war materials and supplies to 
Dutch Ilarbor even while enemy bomb were dropping. 
As the nation got its second wind and started to fight 
back, the Air Transport Command was organized and 
quickly became one of then ost a 1azing developments of 
an amazing war. Again, the airlines were called on for as- 
sistance and \,Vestern drew a tough a signmcnt-the 2000- 
CHAPTER IN THE ALASKAN STORY 
mile route from Great Falls to Fairbanks, Ala ka, with 
branches to Anchorage and ome. 
That first winter was the worst in sixty years. Oil became 
as thick as molasses in the engines-rubber fittings snapped 
like glass-grease froze solid in the wheel bearing . On the 
ground, mechanics worked out in the open in constant 
clanger of frostbite. Airports were still just dirt strips and 
there were no radio navigation facilities. On some trips, 
pilots flew as much as seven hours on instruments with no 
guiding radio beam-only their long-developed sense of 
dead reckoning to bring them afcly to their destination. 
But somehow the boys pulled through and today they 
like to sit around and talk about the Winter of '42, com- 
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paring conditions then with the wonderful facilities that 
have now been installed. Ilugc airdromes have been built, 
hangars erected and the fine t of radio range facilities in- 
talled. Over this great inland airway pa e a con tant 
tream of military traffic-including the hard-working 
transports whose operating efficiency has been stepped up 
to an amazing peak by their civilian airline per onnel. For 
the month of Augu t and Sep tern ber, 1944, one of\Vc tern 
Air Lines' military transports broke all operating record of 
the Alaskan \Ving, by flying an average of fifteen hours 
and fifty-four minutes daily. This means that, out of 1440 
hours in the 6o-day period, the plane spent 954 hours, or 
approximately two-thirds of its total time, actually in the air. 
 Current Assets: 
Cash in banks and on hand 
Accounts receivable: 
ASSETS 
United States Post Office Department 
Interline and agents' traffic balances 
Customers' accounts receivable . 
Sundry (including $17,237.45 clue from employees) 
Billed and unbilled charges to United States Army Air Forces, less 
advance payments of $419,154.59 (note 2) 
Inventory of parts and supplies, at the lower of cost ( first-in, 
first-out) or replacement market 
Escrow deposit 
Investments: 
Sundry securities 
Property not used in operations, at cost-less reserve for deprecia- 
tion of $1424.27 
Properties and Equipment, at cost: 
Land. 
Buildings and leasehold improvements 
Airplanes, propellers, engines and flying equipment 
Radio stations, furniture and fixtures shop and other equipment 
Less Reserve for depreciation 
Routes, Contracts and Lease : 
As recorded on books of subsidiary company . 
Repre ented by excess of cost of stock of ubsidiary over net assets 
thereof 
Prepaid insurance, rent, taxes, etc .. 
$ 378,146.48 
71,576.24 
212,236.76 
48,881.77 
9,962.34 
2,246.45 
8,671.40 
157,459.67 
1,539,492.35 
427,004.02 
2,132,627.44 
1,039,294.53 
108,557.06 
35,465.43 
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$ 398,762.81 
710,841.25 
491,589.21 
226,718.04 
1,827,911.31 
38,028.58 
12,208.79 
1,093,332.91 
ti 
144,022.49 
84,070.80 
3,199,574.88 
LIABILITIES 
Current Liabilities: 
Notes payable to bank 
3% equipment notes payable to bank, portion due in 1945 
Accounts payable-trade 
Interline and agents' traffic balances payable 
Accrued salaries, wages, taxes, insurance, etc. 
Reserve for contingencies ( note 2) . 
Provision for Federal taxes on income 
Less United States Treasury Notes, Tax Series C 
Unused portion of tickets sold 
3% equipment notes payable to bank, due 1946 
Reserves for aircraft and engine overhaul . 
Minority stockholders' interest in subsidiary company 
Capital stock of $1.00 par value per share. Authorized 1,000,000 shares; 
issued and outstanding 409,954 shares 
Surplus: 
Capital surplus 
Earned surplus ( note 2) 
Contingent Liabilitie : 
Damage claims, if any, in excess of insurance coverage which is 
carried in substantial amount 
OTE TO Fl A CIAL TATE , IE T 
$ 200,000.00 
40,000.00 
456,239.19 
17,356.11 
278,818.31 
110,000.00 
$ 178,409.48 
135,000.00 43,409.48 
648,214.12 
762,517.58 
1,145,823.09 
81,311.53 
22,000.00 
95,141.15 
34,613.41 
409,954.00 
1,410,731.70 
3,199,574.88 
1. Effective as of June 1, 1944, the Company acquired approximately 90 % of the outstanding stock of Inland Air Lines, Inc., and the accounts thereof from that date have been included in the consolidated financial statements. . 
2. The net profit for the year and the earned surplus are subject to any adjustments that may be made by Army Air Force auditors and through renegotiation of billed and unbllled charges to Army contracts. Discussions with the Army Air Forces have disclosed the possibility of ad- 
justments for 1942 and 1943 charges of approximately $50,000.00 and $60,000.00 respectively, and a reserve for contingencies has been provided therefor by charges to earned surplus. No provision ha.s been included In the accounts for possible adjustments of 1944 charges as the 
management does not believe any such adjustments will be required. 
3. During December, 1944, Western Air Lines, Inc., entered into a contract with Douglas Aircraft Company, Inc., for the purchase of ten airplanes at a cost of $4,650,000.00. In accordance with the terms of this purchase contract, a deposit payment of $50,000.00 was made on January 
9, 1945, and further payments are to be made as construction of these airplanes progresses. The time of manufacture of these airplanes Is dependent on approval therefor being obtained from the Army Air Forces and due to prevaU!ng conditions it Is not possible to anticipate 
when such approval may be obtained. 
 FOR THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER .'31, 1944 
Operating Revenue: 
Passenger 
Mail . . . . 
Commercial express, freight and excess baggage 
Equipment rentals and incidental services 
Opera ting expenses . . . . . . . 
General and administrative expenses 
Depreciation . . . . . . . . . 
Other Income: 
Profit from fixed price and fixed fee United States Army Air Forces 
contract . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
Net income from restaurant operations : 
Opera ting revenue . . . . . . . . . . 
Less opera ting expenses . . . . . . . . 
Income from property not used in operations-net 
Interest and discounts received . 
Gain on disposition of property . 
Sundry . . . . . 
Operating Profit 
Other Charges: 
Interest paid . . . 
Sundry . . . . . 
Profit before Taxes on Income 
Provision for Federal normal income and surtax 
Net Profit ( notes 1 and 2) . . . . 
$ 263,674.60 
236,688.55 
$ 3,285,038.64 
416,489.11 
321,321.53 
33,816.12 
26,986.05 
191.87 
5,015.66 
7,776.66 
362.30 
6,266.80 
983.16 
STATEMENT OF CONSOLIDATED SURPLUS 
Consolidated Capital Surplus: 
Amount at December 31, 194 3, and December 31, 1944 
Consolidated Earned Surplus: 
Amount at December 31, 1943 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
Bad debt and overhaul reserves of prior years, restored to surplus (net) 
Amount at December 31, 194 3, as acljuste::l 
Net profit for the year . . . . . . . . 
Deduct provision for reserve for contingencies 
Amount at December 31, 1944 ( note 2). 
$3,168,828.29 
836,556.04 
154,990.69 
97,279.58 
4,257,654.60 
4,022,849.28 
234,805.32 
74,148.66 
308,953.98 
7,249.96 
301,704.02 
165,876.48 
$ 135,827.54 
$ 648,214.12 
$ 677,959.16 
8,730.88 
686,690.04 
135,827.54 
822,517.58 
60,000.00 
$ 762,517.58 
  Revenue: 1941 
Passenger ....................... $ 1,055,821 
Mail ......... . .................. 848,655 
Express, Freight and Excess Baggage. 83,702 
Other .......................... 31,067 
Total ..... . ..... . ... . ......... $ 2,019,245 
Revenue Miles Flown .................. 
Revenue Passengers ...... . ............. 
Average No. Passengers Per Revenue Mile 
Average Revenue per Passenger Mile ...... 
Passenger Seat Miles Flown ............ 
Revenue Passenger Miles ............... 
Load Factor ...................... . .... 
Mail Pounds Carried .................. 
Express Pounds Carried ....... . ...... . . . 
Expense: 
Depreciation ..... . ... . . . . .. .... . 
Other Operating & General Expense. 
Operating Expenses per Revenue Mile .. . 
Percent of Scheduled Service P~rformed .. 
Number of Employees (Average) ...... . 
Brackets denote decrease. 
3,136,917 
69,791 
7.30 
.0461 
48,592,298 
22,892,281 
47.11 
1,289,505 
821,514 
1941 
$ 197,781 
1,826,920 
$ 2,024,701 
.6454 
96.85 
330 
1942 1943 
$ 1,242,541 $ 1,709,402 
760,573 260,906 
191,051 148,473 
180,892 42,672 
$ 2,375,057 $ 2,161,453 
2,318,305 2,057,028 
77,801 80,907 
10.52 15.84 
.0509 .0525 
39,348,869 38,498,693 
24,393,816 32,589,240 
61.99 84.65 
1,547,984 1,914,391 
1,258,368 957,291 
1942 1943 
215,707 203,886 
1,582,160 1,850,699 
$ 1,797,867 $ 2,054,585 
.7755 .9988 
96.17 94.44 
485 807 
AII of the above figures, except the number 'of employees, apply to commercial operations only. 
Percent of 
Increase 
1944 1944 over 194 3 
$ 3,168,828 85.38% 
836,556 220.65% 
154,991 4.39% 
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of Western Air Lines - Inland Air Lines 
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Existing routes of Western Air Lines 
and Inland Air Lines 
Proposed routes of Western Air Lines 
and Inland Air Lines 
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 COAST-TO-COAST AIRWAYS ... Showing how Western's "Cut-off" 
route joins at Denver to complete the shortest airway between Los 
Angeles-Chicago- ew York. 
Great Circle (shortest) route- Los Angeles- Chicago- 
New York 
l Western Air Lines-United Air Lines "cut-off" route 
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Other transcontinental airline routes 
 85,000,000 PEOPLE 
will benefit from Western Air Lines' new 
Los AngeUs-Denver rrcut-ojf" route 
All of the great agricultural tatc of the Central We t, 
plus the teeming indu trial center of the East will have 
a hortcr and fa ter route to Southern California when 
\Vestern inaugurate ervice over it Lo ngele -Denver 
"cut-off" route. 11 told, it is e timatcd that 85,000,000 
people, or almo t two-thirds of the nation's population, 
will benefit from thi horte t coa t-to-coa t airwa . 
The growing importance of Southern California as an 
industrial region i reflected in it phenomenal popu- 
lation growth-11. 3 % between 1940 and 1943. Trade 
and travel inevitably follow uch increase and a large 
share"' ill unquc tionably flow over\ estern' route. 
ttracted b) the fact that a letter or package can leave 
ew York and be delivered in Lo ngcle the ame day, 
a large volume of cargo can al o be expected. 
La t but not lea t, arc the va t number of tourists, 
who will want to ec the cenic \ e t in all its plendor. 
Through the magic of air tran port, the) will be a blc to 
pend their full two-"' eek vacation in California and 
adjacent tate with no time lo tin tediou urfacc travel. 
BELOW: Long' Peak (1..p55 ft.) tower over Etc Park and Rocky 
fountain 1 ational Park . 
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 Skyway to the 
NATION'S PLAYGROUNDS 
Because it serves more National Parks and Monu- 
ments, more resorts and scenic areas than any other 
airline, Western Air Lines is appropriately referred 
to as the "Skyway to the Nation's Playgrounds." 
Closed now because of the war, all of these beauty 
spots will again offer their outstanding attractions 
to tourists and vacationists after peace has come. 
Western Air Lines will offer a comprehensive sys- 
tem of air tours to such world-famous places as 
Yellowstone Park, Death Valley, Palm Springs, Lake 
Louise, the Black Hills and many others. Dude 
ranch visitors, skiers, fishermen and big game hunt- 
ers will be able to board a Western Air Lines plane 
and, in a few hours, find their favorite outdoor sport. 
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Calgary, Alberta.) 
t. Rushmore, Shrine 
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Route certificates now held by 
Western Air Lines and Inland Air 
Lines .......... 4,196 miles 
Route certificates applied for 
by Western Air Lines and . 
Inland Air Lines     15,092 miles 
WESTERN AIR LINES 
Inc. 
Map showing proposed route from _Los 
Angeles to Mexico, Central Amer.1ca, 
and South America and from the United 
States to Alaska. 
November 15, 1944