Although they called themselves “Los Angeles Airways,” technically it was a helicopter service. They operated from the mid-1940s to 1971, and their runs included services from LAX to Fullerton, Long Beach, Pomona, San Bernadino, and others, including Disneyland.
I remember these from my childhood. They used to fly out of the Newporter Inn headed either for Anaheim (Disneyland Hotel) or LAX. In 1968 they had two of their choppers go down due to mechanical issues and a friend of my parents had been on that chopper on the trip just prior to it crashing. My mother hated helicopters and small private planes anyway and she absolutely forbade my father from even thinking about flying on them after those two crashes.
(BTW: the Newporter Inn was a favorite of John Wayne (who lived a stone’s throw away) and a lot of Richard Nixon’s people stayed there during the summer when President Nixon was at his San Clemente estate down the coast. Legend has it that Attorney General John Mitchell’s wife Martha was drugged and held hostage at the Newporter because she was threatening to blab what she knew about Watergate to reporters. As the Watergate crisis unfolded, she was drinking more and more and she’d often drunk-dial reporters with tidbits of info that Nixon’s people didn’t want to get out)
Sweet Jesus, who was proposing a flight route into Fontucky? Did Jed hit oil while shootin’ at some food in the slag heap by the steel mill?