Posted on 05/13/2015 11:43:05 AM PDT by rickmichaels
After more than 75 years of flying, the end is near for US Airways. American Airlines plans to shut down the venerable carrier over a 90-day stretch that could begin as soon as July, which would mean a final departure around October.
American executives designed the gradual fade-out to avoid the kind of technological glitches and massive flight delays that plagued United Airlines after it abruptly switched to Continental's computer systems in 2012.
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I always wonderer what ever happened to Toody and Muldoon?
(Joe E. Ross and Fred Gwynne!)
(May parents were both American ticket agents at Idlewild when I was conceived.)
Didn’t their customers object?
At least he did not say, “on duty at Idlewild.” LOL
That means that if a flight from New York to Chicago in 1965 cost $500.00, it would cost $3,763 today! Airline fares have not increased, the value of the dollar is in the shitter and people complain about airline fares? Give me a break. In 1965 you could buy a nice home for $30,000, today that same home might cost $600,000. The traveling public is now crammed into small seats, abused, no frills offered, extra charges for bags, etc.etc. but they are still getting a bargain going from A to B. Yes, schedules are not great but, if they were you would be paying much more! There are “Boutique” airlines, they are called “Charters.” If you want to go exactly when and where, you pay $3,763 to fly to Chicago.
How about his for a fare? Southwest Airlines had a fare of $29.00 from Fort Lauderdale to Orlando a few years ago. I challenged a friend to find a cab company that would take him to the airport for less!
TWA was swallowed by American, not Airways.
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I see PNC Financial Services with 52,000 employees, PPG Industries with 43,000, Alcoa with 60,000, Westinghouse Electric with 14,500, U.S. Stell with 42,000. I could go on.
Whoops - wrong A. I remember when TWA’s plane blew up. Won’t live long enough for anybody to ever acknowledge that it was an attack by a terrorist. At one time it was a great airline and I enjoyed working for them.
Probably should let City-Data know that, since they don’t have them listed as being in Pittsburgh anymore.
http://www.city-data.com/city/Pittsburgh-Pennsylvania.html
How bout Ozark Airlines.
Ozark went to TWA.
Which went to American.
lol..
Just the other day I was showing someone my Blue-striped tie, and TWE name badge.
Your tie and badge have to be collector’s items by now. Unfortunately I do still remember my ID# which was 98795. Flying was a whole lot different and way more fun back then. Everybody dressed up, we served real food on real plates with real silverware. Only female flight attendants and we were all trim, fit and young and loved flight crew members. I quit flying several years ago after a huge run-in with the TSA Gestapo in Kansas City so I drive or I don’t go.
They haven’t finished *painting* their Astrojets! I look up, and I can still see the AA right on the V-stabiliser...
Note that I didn’t say re-painting; CRSmith had an aversion to paint, on jets...
C. R. Smith didn’t like paint because 1) it was expensive to maintain and 2) it added to the weight of the plane (remember, a fully painted plane can add several hundred pounds to the empty weight of the plane). However, with new paint formulations and the switch to using a lot of composite materials on the plane structure, that erased the advantage of unpainted planes; that’s why the current American Airlines livery is a full painted plane.
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