Purdue Airlines

Purdue University has a history of operating airlines directly or through affiliates, including:

• charter operations of its own through wholly-owned non-profit Purdue Aeronautics Corporation
• being briefly certificated by the US government to operate scheduled service through Purdue Aeronautics
• separately briefly owning another scheduled airline, Mid-West Airlines
• contributing its name to a part-owned for-profit charter jet airline, Purdue Airlines

Purdue Airlines was incidentally instrumental in the startup of Southwest Airlines.