Alabama Airlines opened its doors in June 1995 as a commuter service with its headquarters and only hub located in Birmingham. A...

Alabama Airlines opened its doors in June 1995 as a commuter
service with its headquarters and only hub located in Birmingham.
A product of airline deregulation, Alabama Air joined the
growing number of successful short-haul, point-to-point airlines,
including Lone Star, Comair, Atlantic Southeast, Skywest,
and Business Express.
Alabama Air was started and managed by two former pilots,
David Douglas (who had been with the defunct Eastern
Airlines) and Savas Ozatalay (formerly with Pan Am). It acquired
a fleet of 12 used prop-jet planes and the airport gates vacated
by the 1994 downsizing of Delta Air Lines.