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United and Northwest
After a ground-breaking legal battle, United Airlines won the right to fly overseas. Both United and Northwest Airlines were granted Pacific routes, ending Pan Am's monopoly.
United opened daily service to Honolulu from San Francisco in 1947 and from Los Angeles in 1950.Northwest opened a transpacific route to Manila via Anchorage, Alaska, in 1947. Then two years later, it began flying to Honolulu from Seattle and Portland. |