airline introduced Convair 240s on 1 July 1955, becoming the first local service carrier with pressurized aircraft. In 1956, having outgrown its facilities in Ithaca, it moved its corporate offices to Utica. When hired by Mohawk Airlines in December 1957, Ruth Carol Taylor became the first African-American flight attendant in the United States. Six months after breaking one historic barrier, Ruth Taylor's career ended due to another barrier: the airline's marriage ban, a common practice among airlines of the day. Airlines often dismissed flight attendants who married or became pregnant. Mohawk's golden age was the late 1950s and early 1960s; it acquired the Convair 440 in 1958, and Martin 4-0-4s in 1960. In 1961, Mohawk was the first airline to use a centralized computer-based reservation service, and in 1965, the first regional airline to use flight simulators. Mohawk upgraded its fleet with the BAC One-Eleven in 1965, becoming the first regional airline to fly jets. The last DC-3 flights were in 1962; Mohawk ended Convair piston flights in 1969 and mainly flew the BAC One-Eleven and the Fairchild Hiller FH-227 turboprop. Like other local service airlines, Mohawk was subsidized; in 1962 operating "revenues" totaled $23.3 million including $4.6 million "federal subsidy". In May 1968, Mohawk served 38 airports, from Boston and Washington, D.C. to Detroit. Between 1968 and 1971, labor and economic issues bled Mohawk financially. Unable to pay creditors at the end of that period, Mohawk began merger discussions with Allegheny Airlines, and merged into Allegheny on 12 April 1972. Allegheny changed its name to USAir in 1979, and later to US Airways. Following bankruptcies and a later merger with America West Airlines in 2005, US Airways purchased American Airlines in 2015 and assumed operations under the American Airlines name and logo. Destinations Connecticut Hartford (Bradley International Airport) Illinois Chicago (Chicago Midway Airport) Massachusetts Bedford (Hanscom Field)* Boston (Logan International Airport) Martha's Vineyard (Martha's Vineyard Airport) Nantucket (Nantucket Memorial Airport) Worcester (Worcester Regional Airport) Michigan Detroit (Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport) Minnesota Minneapolis-St. Paul (Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport) New Hampshire Keene (Dillant–Hopkins Airport)* Lebanon (Lebanon Municipal Airport) Manchester (Grenier Field) New Jersey Atlantic City (Atlantic City International Airport) Newark (Newark Liberty International Airport) New York Albany (Albany International Airport) Alexandria Bay (Maxson Airfield)* Binghamton (Greater Binghamton Airport) Buffalo (Buffalo Niagara International Airport) Elmira/Corning (Elmira-Corning Regional Airport) Glens Falls (Floyd Bennett Memorial Airport)* Islip (Long Island MacArthur Airport) Ithaca/Cortland (Ithaca