2) Great answers from miniliq and Wally Bird concerning the airlines that previously operated jet service from Santa Barbara (SBA)!

Here's my comprehensive response:

#1 - Air Wisconsin: BAe 146-200 and BAe 146-300 service operating as United Express nonstop to DEN. Air Wis replaced UA's mainline service on this route. And to the best of my knowledge, SBA was the only city ever served in California with the series 300 stretched version of the BAe 146.

#2 - Allegiant Air: MD-80 service to LAS. This flight did not last very long as Allegiant apparently decided to increase LAS frequencies instead at nearby SMX (which is located in the northern part of the same county as SBA). And Allegiant is also planning on initiating SMX-HNL nonstop service as well with B757-200 equipment.

#3 - American Airlines: MD-80 service to DFW. Some flights made an intermediate stop at either BFL or BUR and one could buy a seat on these short hops (I flew from BFL to SBA on an AA MD-80). BTW, after this service was canceled, AA Eagle then flew nonstop SBA-DFW for awhile with a CRJ-700. This service was dropped as well. These days, AA Eagle only flies SBA-LAX with regional jet equipment used on the route including the CRJ-700 and ERJ-135.

#4 - Continental Airlines: B737-300 service nonstop to DEN. This service did not last very long.

#5 - ExpressJet: ERJ-145 service nonstop to SAN and SMF. This was part of an attempt by ExpressJet to operate a standalone, non-codeshare, hub bypass route network in the U.S. It didn't work and ExpressJet was subsequently sold to SkyWest and then rolled into Atlantic Southeast Airlines (ASA, a division of SkyWest) which then retained the ExpressJet name. The initial name for the merged ExpressJet-ASA entity was SureJet but this name was quickly dropped in favor of ExpressJet.

#6 - Horizon Air: CRJ-700 service to SMF, PDX and SEA. SkyWest now flies this service to PDX and SEA with the very same CRJ-700 (CR7) equipment under contract to Alaska Airlines as former CR7 operator Horizon Air has now standardized their fleet with only the Dash 8 Q400 turboprop being operated with these aircraft now appearing in Alaska Airlines livery. Thanks to Wally Bird for reminding me of this as QX was not on my original list!

#7 - Hughes Air West: "Top Banana In The West!" with DC-9-10 and DC-9-30 service to LAX, SFO, BFL, LAS plus other destinations that were served on a direct, no change of plane basis.....including SEA with only seven (7) intermediate stops en route! RW flt. #874 was operated with a DC-9-30 (D9S) on an actual routing of LAX-SBA-SFO-SCK-TWF-PIH-IDA-BOI-PDX-SEA. This flight departed SBA at 11:20am and arrived at SEA at 6:59pm.

#8 - Mesa Air: To the best of my knowledge, Mesa never operated the BAe 146 or the ERJ-145 into SBA. In fact, I do not think Mesa operated either type. However, Mesa did operate the CRJ-900 and CRJ-200 into SBA as America West Express on behalf of America West on a routing of SBA-PHX. This service then continued on under the US Airways Express banner until US Airways booted Mesa off the route and awarded this contract flying to SkyWest which currently operates CRJ-200 equipment SBA-PHX. Thanks to miniliq for mentioning Mesa as this regional carrier was not on my original list as well!

#9 - Pacific Air Lines: B727-100 service to LAX, MRY and SFO. To the best of my knowledge, Pacific Air Lines was the first carrier to operate jet equipment from SBA. Pacific, of course, then merged with Bonanza Airlines and West Coast Airlines to form Air West which then became Hughes Air West.

#10 - Pacific Express: BAC One-Eleven service to SFO, LAX and BFL. I flew on this service several times to SFO and LAX.

#11 - Shuttle by United: B737-300 and B737-500 service to SFO. This UA division replaced UA's mainline service to SFO.

And last but certainly not least.....

#12 - United Airlines: B727-100, B727-200, B737-200 and B737-300 service. Nonstop flights were operated to ORD, DEN, SFO and LAX with one stop service to SEA and other destinations. The airline of the Friendly Skies was the big dog in SBA for many years.

So as you can see, there were actually twelve (12) airlines that served SBA with jet service in the past.....

11) Excellent responses from miniliq and tonywestsider who are both correct! Braniff International operated this flight with a "First Class and Coach Jet Power Electra II", according to the remarks in their timetable.