DCA-ROCguy From United States of America, joined Apr 2000, 4402 posts, RR: 37 Reply 1, posted (7 years 3 weeks 4 days 7 hours ago) and read 2523 times:
RoseFlyer From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 8750 posts, RR: 52 Reply 4, posted (7 years 3 weeks 4 days 6 hours ago) and read 2506 times:
Quoting DeltaDC9 (Reply 2): Yes I remember, those were 727's and had "Whisperjet" painted on them.
Well compared to 707s, DC8s and worst of all VC10s, the 727s actually were whisper jets. Now they can't compare to Avros and are some of the loudest planes around now, but 40 years ago, the 727 was a pretty quiet plane.
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Cody From United States of America, joined May 1999, 1918 posts, RR: 10 Reply 6, posted (7 years 1 week 4 days 11 hours ago) and read 2282 times:
This doesn't answer your question, but you may find it interesting. On councourse D there are three jetways that came from Eastern and still have Eastern's colorful orange, yellow, brown, and blue panels. If you close your eyes you can pretend you are boarding an Eastern airplane. I forget the gate numbers, but they are the first ones on the left as you come out of security.
I believe this flight continued on to MIA, as did the earlier listed Tampa flights. For whatever reason, IND was never connected with IAH or CLT two secondary EA hubs.
Wadnet From Mexico, joined Mar 2006, 7 posts, RR: 0 Reply 10, posted (7 years 1 week 4 days 9 hours ago) and read 2215 times:
Eastern also flew from Phoenix to Indianapolis for a very short time. Maybe 2 - 3 months at the most. The also started Phoenix - Cleveland but that was short lived too. This was in response to US entering the market. This was just after deregualtion 1983 - 85
Kkfla737 From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 1033 posts, RR: 1 Reply 12, posted (7 years 1 week 4 days 8 hours ago) and read 2204 times:
Quoting Wadnet (Reply 10): Eastern also flew from Phoenix to Indianapolis for a very short time. Maybe 2 - 3 months at the most. The also started Phoenix - Cleveland but that was short lived too. This was in response to US entering the market. This was just after deregualtion 1983 - 85
not surprising. EA did a lot of those types of routes for short periods of time trying to increase east/west flying and guard against upstarts which US Air (even though now classified as a legacy carrier) certainly was in the mid 1980s as compared to EA who was either the #1 or #2 largest US carrier from the 1970s up until 1986.
Cody From United States of America, joined May 1999, 1918 posts, RR: 10 Reply 16, posted (7 years 1 week 4 days 7 hours ago) and read 2148 times:
Quoting 7E72004 (Reply 9): What do you mean orange, blue, etc. panels on the jetways???
Inside of most Eastern jetways, the walls had alternating panels of blue, orange, and brown. Some may have had yellow too. Imagine walking through a giant roll of blue, brown, and orange LifeSavers. Most of the jetways you see today are simply white or grey inside, but Eastern's were colorful 70'ish looking. Those jetways still exist in IND on the D concourse. They are the gates that usually service US AIRWAYS EXPRESS RJ's.
7E72004 From United States of America, joined Mar 2004, 3586 posts, RR: 1 Reply 17, posted (7 years 1 week 4 days 7 hours ago) and read 2137 times:
I thought those were new ones...for a while they did not have any jetways on the left side of the concourse (if you stand looking toward the runways)...
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Cody From United States of America, joined May 1999, 1918 posts, RR: 10 Reply 18, posted (7 years 1 week 4 days 6 hours ago) and read 2103 times:
Quoting 7E72004 (Reply 17): I thought those were new ones...for a while they did not have any jetways on the left side of the concourse (if you stand looking toward the runways)...
Yes those are the ones. They may be new to the airport, but they came from somewhere else and had been used by EASTERN. One of the agents at US AIRWAYS EXPRESS in IND has been working at IND since the 1950's. He previoulsy worked for EAL. It's funny seeing him in the old EASTERN jetways. He probably feels like he has gone back in time.
Scintx From United States of America, joined Apr 2006, 270 posts, RR: 1 Reply 19, posted (7 years 1 week 4 days 6 hours ago) and read 2097 times:
What routes did EA serve around 1967? In that time frame as a very young kid we did flights from HOU and made our way to IND. I have no clue what stops we had getting to IND.
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DCA-ROCguy From United States of America, joined Apr 2000, 4402 posts, RR: 37 Reply 20, posted (7 years 1 week 4 days 6 hours ago) and read 2096 times:
When the 727 first entered into the Eastern Fleet, it was called; "The Quiet One".....Whisperliner came with the hockeystick livery.
For the 1972 schedule above, Eastern had 6 L1011s in the fleet.
They operated on these routes:
ATL-JFK
ATL-TPA
MIA-JFK
JFK-ATL
JFK-MIA
JFK-MCO
JFK-SJU
JFK-PBI
MCO-ATL
SJU-JFK
TPA-ATL
PBI-JFK
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