Fun fact....the simulator scenes at the end were all conducted by US AIRWAYS Check Airmen. They were not actors.
Jump to postAm I the only one who thinks Eastern looked its best right at the very end? Highly polished fuselages, freshly-painted stripes, and BAC #707 grey on the fairings and rudders as opposed to the silver rudders painted on the L1011s during the 80s that didn't quite match the aluminum on the fuselage. I ...
Jump to postInteresting points. By the same token, didn't Air Wisconsin help US Airways out of bankruptcy way back when? I realize Air Wisconsin most likely is not involved in a seniority integration with AA, but nonetheless a regional could argue that part of the reason AA exists today is because of Air Wiscon...
Jump to postWhen Martin Shugrue came in and was attempting to lead Eastern through the "100 day turn around" period, one of the goals was a new corporate image. New uniforms and ticket counters were implemented as well as a refresh on the exteriors and interiors of the airplanes. In early 1989, severa...
Jump to postI have built models of the Eastern fleet in their last year and noticed the same thing! The 757 tail stripe is a totally different angle than the rest of the fleet.
You are good at noticing details!
I have built models of the Eastern fleet in their last year and noticed the same thing! The 757 tail stripe is a totally different angle than the rest of the fleet.
You are good at noticing details!
They flew the DC-10's JFK-MIA and I have also seen a picture of an Eastern DC-10 at the terminal in Boston. I don't think Boston regularly got a DC-10 though. Atlanta got the DC-10 at least once on a diversion or a last-minute equipment sub. Also oddly enough, Eastern's last flight to Bogota was ope...
Jump to postOdd fact. United had ownership of a few DC-9-80's that were operated by the original Frontier. This would have been around 1985-1986 when they were exploring merging Frontier into United. I forget the details, but during merger talks somehow United ended up owning the MD-80s. They never operated the...
Jump to postThat was a great book. To me it almost seemed like whatever or whomever was on board flight 980 led to the end of Eastern Air Lines.
Jump to postDoes anyone know if Eastern had a lounge on their L-1011's at this time. I don't remember seeing one but my father smoked at the time so I would imagine he found it. Knowing how Eastern filled aircraft over the years, I’d be surprised if they did. However, I did a search on “Eastern L-1011 Cabin” a...
Jump to postDoes anyone know if Eastern had a lounge on their L-1011's at this time. I don't remember seeing one but my father smoked at the time so I would imagine he found it. I think the lounges were gone by the end of 1973. If I remember right, by the end of 1972 they were already in the process of taking ...
Jump to postHere is the link
https://digitalcollections.library.miam ... 396/rec/54
I just read a 1987 interview with Edward Acker, the Pan Am CEO at the time. This was about 2 years after the sale of Pan Am's Pacific routes to United. In the interview, he was asked if Pan Am would ever return to the Pacific. Surprisingly he said, "yes and it could be this year (1987.)" H...
Jump to postI was wondering the same thing? Are any of the former India-based crews still with Delta?
Also, I didn't think Karachi was ever a crew base, but I could be wrong.
Looking for info on the following questions.
When did Pan Am close the Bombay/New Delhi crew bases?
Did Delta operate them after the Trans-Atlantic route sale?
Were the India-based crew members offered opportunities to remain with Delta?
Don't take this all the way to the bank, but I think they did serve Denver from MCI, but it was very, very short-lived. I will try and look through some old timetables. Eastern closed MCI in 1988, and that coincided with them pulling out of several cities all together. Tucson, Reno, Ontario, MSP, an...
Jump to postHow many aircraft does this leave Republic in American colors? Republic has 69 Emb 175s on order....who will these operate for?
Jump to postAlong the same line regarding US taking back the Trump Shuttle 727's. How long did it take US to reconfigure the Trump 727? I recall the Trump 727's had real marble in the bathrooms, which increased the weight big time on the planes. Would be interesting to see what work US had to do to the planes ...
Jump to postI know they occasionally flew them coast-to-coast, LAX-IAD.
I always wondered if they put United interiors in the L1011's, but have never seen a picture.
The name of the waypoint where the accident occurred is "RIFLE."
I aways though that was an intriguing name for the exact location of that particular crash.
I don't think you could have bought a ticket to HNL. You had to have flown something like 7 round trips in the new, expanded First Class section and then chosen a free trip to Cancun, the Virgin Islands, or Honolulu on special flights specifically for those people. It was a very good try for luring ...
Jump to postWith the 12/90 date, that tag must have been printed for the planned Business Flyer REWARD FLIGHTS.
Jump to postWhen Marty Shugrue started the expanded First Class seating in 1990, there were supposed to be "Reward Flights" to HNL for passengers who flew a certain amount of miles in that section. It was called something like, "The Eastern Business Break Reward Program." I actually have an ...
Jump to postContinental had some ODD hybrids. It looks liked they glued a whole different tail on N1973.
Jump to postWow! I never knew that and cannot find a good picture of it.
Thanks!
Yesterday someone posted a picture of a United 737-200 at Denver Stapleton Airport. The photo was dated October 9, 1986. In the background is a Continental 727 in Frontier Horizon colors, but with a Continental gold tail and meatball logo. It is not a PEOPLExpress hybrid as it is clearly a bare meta...
Jump to postSouthern had a crew base in New Orleans. I am not sure if it held on into the Republic days or not. Northeastern used New Orleans as a hub because the newly acquired A300 B2's were limited and couldn't quite do the nonstop from Florida to the west coast. They added Las Vegas, Tulsa, Little Rock, and...
Jump to postBack in the Autumn of 1980, my Dad surprised me with a tour of the TWA operation in Pittsburgh. He was friends with a TWA dispatcher who worked in Pittsburgh (I never quite understood why TWA had dispatchers in Pittsburgh, but they had at least one.) His name was "Nick" and he showed us ar...
Jump to postMany Air Florida employees went on to Midway.....at least for a while. Midway closed the Miami flight attendant crew base around August 1987. That move took out a lot of the former Air Florida f/as that had no desire to try and commute. The Miami pilot base stayed open a while, but eventually closed...
Jump to postHere are some not-so-known facts about Midway in regard to Air Florida. * Originally they intended to operate Air Florida's Miami-London route, but it didn't take long for them to sort of admit they may have bitten off more than they could handle and back off. I think the thought of nearly doubling ...
Jump to postFunny how that same livery somehow morphed into Leisure Air .. and then USAirways (the "Hudson River" livery, i mean) Leisure and Presidential had the same founder, Hap Pareti. I guess he liked that paint job. It was funny because I always wondered what a Presidential DC-10 would have loo...
Jump to postUSAir had crew bases in San Diego, LAX, and SFO. The last survivor was LAX which I think closed in 1998.
The former PSA folks were troopers commuting to the east coast.
The ones with AF tail numbers had full blue and green Air Florida interiors the entire time they were with Pan Am. They even had Air Florida wall paper on the bulkheads and lavatories which consisted of small blue and green af logos all over.
Jump to postWish I could find it. That was always one of my favorite liveries.
Jump to postCan anyone post a picture of the Rio aircraft painted in TranStar colors? I have never seen it and always thought they only had a placard by the door that said TranStar Skylink, but the rest of the plane was the full Rio scheme.
Jump to postI don't have a link as someone texted it to me. It is right here in my phone though. It looks like there are several rows by the windows that are blue with beige rectangles and directly across from them in the center they are beige with blue rectangles. Sort of a reverse of one another. I assume the...
Jump to postSorry I have tried to post a photo and it doesn't cooperate with me. I admit possible operator error.
Jump to postThere was a discussion on here a while back about the history of American's 767 seat upholstery. The conversation morphed into the final 747-100 (not SP) interior and how it looked. Well, I came across a photo of the economy section and they did in fact have the blue and beige seat covers that were ...
Jump to postI found an interior shot from the early 1980s of one of the American 747-100's. It was a flight to or from Hawaii. The economy seats did get the blue and beige upholstery that was delivered with the MD-80's, 767's, and 757's. The sidewall panels are brownish which matches the tray tables. Sorry I ca...
Jump to postI have the February 1991 Official Airline Guide. Even though Eastern closed in January, their February schedule was already loaded. Noteworthy changes: * MSP was to be added back from ATL * San Antonio was to be added back from HOU. * Miami was to have been cutback to ATL, LGA, DCA, SJU, PBI, and ST...
Jump to postIf I remember right, the flight crew had Northwest's Director Of Maintenance on the number two radio working with them to get it as slow as possible in the conditions they were in.
Jump to postHe couldn't get the door opened. That is why they had to slow it down more. In icing conditions it was pretty hairy to get that slow which is most likely why they added additional flaps.
Jump to postDoes a 767-200 ER really have the range to do STL-Tokyo???? I was always impressed that US AIRWAYS flew them from CLT-HNL....but STL-Tokyo???? WOW!
Jump to postJust had a memory. A good friend of mine flew for a company called Transtar. It wasn't the original former MuseAir operation, but another outfit that started in the mid 90s. It was operated by Airmark Aviation. Well anyway, they had one DC-10 painted in their full colors. I THINK it operated WINGS O...
Jump to postI think that was Skybus, a Jim Dent operation. Prospective pilots had to kick in $10,000. YES! That was it! And it seemed like Private Jet was owed money and tried to buy SkyBus to get what they could from it....except their wasn't much to buy. It was all so confusing. I remember seeing their lone ...
Jump to postYes and I think a lot of soon-to-be employees put their own money in just to see it all vanish....without working a single day!
Jump to postThat was a strange operation. It was the mid 1990s when the second-wave of start-up airlines was beginning. SkyBus Public Charter was one of them. They flew to FLL from EWR and a couple other places and were one of the first carriers to put Sanford, FL on the map. The odd thing was they never operat...
Jump to postI knew the sidewalls were the 747 and thought the overheads looked odd.....how disappointing.
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