Tom in NO From United States of America, joined Nov 1999, 7194 posts, RR: 40 Posted (10 years 7 months 5 days 13 hours ago) and read 876 times:
I'm staring at a postcard of a Texas International DC-9 taken at ELP in mid-1982, and a question popped into my head:
What gates did TI operate out of at ELP? At the time, TI was operating ELP flights to IAH, MAF, PHX, and TUS.
I know that CO (who merged with TI) has only one gate currently (B-9), and that in mid-'82, the combination TI/CO operated 22 flights a day, so they had a much greater presence then than they do now.
Tom in NO (at MSY)
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Cody From United States of America, joined May 1999, 1918 posts, RR: 10 Reply 1, posted (10 years 7 months 5 days 11 hours ago) and read 840 times:
Sorry I cannot help you with your question, but Continental actually considered El Paso a hub in the early 80's. I have a timetable mentioning their hubs in Houston, Denver, Honolulu and El Paso.
AATripleseven From United States of America, joined Jun 2000, 324 posts, RR: 1 Reply 2, posted (10 years 7 months 5 days 10 hours ago) and read 814 times:
I heard that Continental was the sole operator out of Terminal B during the hub days. Currently Southwest, Delta (mainline and both Skywest and ASA), Continental, America West, and Frontier use terminal B. When I was younger, I remember seeing Western 727s parked at the end as well. The original Frontier was in Terminal A along with United and American.
Imisspiedmont From United States of America, joined exactly 12 years ago today! , 6203 posts, RR: 43 Reply 4, posted (10 years 7 months 5 days 6 hours ago) and read 755 times:
Perusing a CO timetable form the early 80s, I came across the same info as Cody. Not only was ELP a hub but it was second in number of flights only to IAH. I flew the redeye 720 TUS-ELP and connected to the D10 ELP-SAT-IAH-MIA once.
As to what gates were used by TT, I do not know. I know that every time I was there in the mid 70s there would be a DC-9 and CV-600 on the ramp.Always 1 of each no matter the time of day.
What is it with all the "is there a possibilty airline X will.." threads? The answer it'll is possible.
Dc863 From Denmark, joined Jun 1999, 1554 posts, RR: 2 Reply 5, posted (10 years 7 months 5 days 6 hours ago) and read 748 times:
Perusing a CO timetable form the early 80s, I came across the same info as Cody. Not only was ELP a hub but it was second in number of flights only to IAH. I flew the redeye 720 TUS-ELP and connected to the D10 ELP-SAT-IAH-MIA once.
What did you think of the 720B? That aircraft had incredible TO performance. I flew on several 720B from PAA many many years ago and they were like hotrods.
Searpqx From Netherlands, joined Jun 2000, 4343 posts, RR: 12 Reply 6, posted (10 years 7 months 4 days 18 hours ago) and read 709 times:
Up until the second bankruptcy, ELP was always an important part of the CO system. In fact, ELP was the original destination on Varney Speed Lines first route from Pueblo.
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