Long Beach Airport
In 1981 the startup airline Jet America started nonstop MD80 service to Chicago and, in 1982, to Dallas-Fort Worth.  In 1982 Alaska Airlines started nonstop flights to Portland and Seattle. In 1983, American started ORD and DFW and United started flights to Denver.  In 1984 United had two daily 767s to Denver, which were the largest aircraft ever scheduled into Long Beach.