US Commercial Aviation History - 1
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US Airlines History outlines the development of the commercial airline industry in the United States over several parts: Part 1 discusses the early history including the Wright brothers' first flight in 1903, the growth of air mail services in the 1920s-1930s which led to the establishment of the first major airlines like United, Eastern, and Pan Am. Part 2 covers the introduction of government regulation of the industry through the establishment of the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) to regulate fares and entry/exit to routes. Part 3 notes the transition to jet aircraft in the 1950s with planes like the Boeing 707 and the start of non-stop transcontinental flights, but also the issue of half
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US Commercial Aviation History - 1
- 1. US Airlines History based on Hard Landing book
- 3. Part 1. Air Mail
- 6. Air mail
- 7. Privatisation Boeing - Chicago to SF > United Airlines Rickenbacker - Atlanta to Miami > Eastern Air Trippe & Lindbergh - St. Louis to Chicago, NY to Boston > Pan Am
- 8. First Rule of Airline Economics If a plan is going to take off anyway any paying passenger or payload is almost pure profit
- 9. Worlds busiest airport in 1930 - Tulsa, OK
- 10. Airmail reform - Pay per distance & volume, not weight Walter Folger Brown
- 11. Big Four 3 routes from NYC to CA United > northern route TWA > center route American > southern route Eastern > north to south on East Coast
- 14. C. R. Smith
- 15. Birth of CAB
- 17. Part 3. Jet Age
- 18. Boeing 707
- 20. Service, food & booze wars
- 23. Herb Kelleher
- 26. Elements Veteran pilots Retired American Airlines flight attendants (<32 year policy) Three 737s
- 27. DFW
- 29. Love Campaign
- 30. Love Attendants
- 31. 1972 crisis at LUV Sold a plane (4 planes at the moment) 10 min turnaround Pilots and supervisors helped with baggage Tickets collected onboard Food & drinks restocked thought the rear door while passengers deplaning through the front Flight attendants removed trash
- 32. Off-peak rate - 10$
- 33. Second Rule of Airline Economics Giving the expense-account customer something for free that he could take home instead of to the office - in short, kickback, won his undying loyalty
- 34. Part 5. Wall Street meets Airlines
- 35. Frank Lorenzo
- 36. Don Burr
- 37. Key events Jet Capital & $1.5M raise Texas International & youngest president in commercial aviation Peanuts fares and 600% increase in 7 days
- 38. Part 6. Network wars
- 39. Bob Crandall, American Airlines
- 40. Manual Reservation > 20 separate communications for 1 passenger traveling on 2 connecting airlines
- 43. Birth of SABRE
- 44. Richard Ferris, United Airlines
- 45. American Society of Travel Agents meeting
- 46. Screen bias
- 47. To be continued