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Research Paper Braniff International Airways: A Brief History Kyle Goeller Aviation Transportation (SP17) 14 February 2017 Braniff International Airways: A Brief History The Beginnings When thinking about airline companies, most people naturally gravitate to the big name carriers of current times. Delta, American, United, and Southwest usually top the list of companies that come to mind when discussing airline companies. Throughout history, however, a multitude of airlines have operated

Braniff International Airways: A Brief History The Beginnings When thinking about airline companies, most people naturally gravitate to the big name carriers of current times. Delta, American, United, and Southwest usually top the list of companies that come to mind when discussing airline companies. Throughout history, however, a multitude of airlines have operated in the United States and abroad. Some of these merged or were bought by other companies forming the mega airlines we see today.

Introduction Style. Class. Color. These words best describe one of the most successful airlines of the 20th century. Braniff International Airways began as a small commuter/airmail company and grew into the worlds most prestigious airlines in the 1950s and 1960s. Braniff was bold in its quest to revolutionize the airline industry, however, many factors contributed to the bankruptcy of Braniff Airways in 1982. How could such a large airline go from successful to bankrupt in just a few years? The largest

The Fight to Fly – Southwest Airlines History According to Southwest Airlines website and other media outlets, it is a miracle that Southwest Airlines even exists today. Hard to believe since U.S. Department of Transportation currently has Southwest Airlines as the nations number one domestic airline in passengers boarded. Southwest has the largest fleet of Boeing aircrafts in the world and many of them offer gate to gate WiFi which allows the traveler to use personal handheld devices to pass

Country Airlines was started in 1982 by a small group of pilots and flight attendants in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota. After Braniff shutdown in 1982, Ken Sundmark approached Bob Daniels, a cofounder of Mainline Travel Incorporated about forming a charter service that would combine the assets of Mainline and the airline expertise of the now unemployed Braniff crew. Eleven Braniff pilots, two cabin attendants, an attorney, and a financial consultant (Links to an external site.) shared 49 percent ownership

number one in its customer service for the fourth consecutive year in a row in 1984. Two years later, Southwest took over Transtar Airlines and also took over Morris Air in 1994. Some of the airlines that were around when Southwest started were Braniff, Aloha Airlines, United Airlines, Trans-Texas, and Continental Airlines. Some of these airline companies started legal action and began and began a long three year battle to try and keep Southwest Airlines on the ground. However, the U.S. Supreme

When Mary Wells helped develop the Braniff International Airways campaign, she realized the truth about air travel: people wanted to enjoy their flying experiences. But at that time, planes were boring. Basing the advertising campaign on enjoyable air travel, she brought together multiple designers and creators to develop a new flying experience. I found it interesting how the advertising process seemed to be put off until the end. Wells spent much of her time selling this consumer desire to designers

world seem more colorful. After two World Wars and The Depression, there was a rather bleak outlook on life, and advertisers wanted to make people look at the world in a new light. One of the ways which this this strategy was implemented was in the Braniff International Airways advertisements. The advertisers focused on the colors. They focused on the fact that their planes came in 7 different colors, and how the interiors of each planes were a different color that complimented the exteriors. The

SWA, on February 21, 1968, Braniff, Trans-Texas and Continental Airlines attained a provisional restraining order from a District Court forbidding the Texas Aeronautics Commission (TAC) from delivering SWA Certificate. On May 13, 1970, the Texas Supreme Court unanimously votes to overturn the lower courts ' findings and rules in favor of Air Southwest (SWA, History by Date, (1)). Conclusively, on December 07, 1970, the United States Supreme Court denies appeal by Braniff and Texas International (TI)

Southwest Airlines: A Great Place to Work . The Success of Southwest Airlines The Beginning In the mid 1960’s, Rollin King, an owner of a small commuter air service from San Antonio Texas realized the inconvenience and expense of travelling between San Antonio, Dallas, and Houston. Through the urging of his banker and his own vision, Rollin King decided to start an intrastate airline. King first pitched his plan to Herb Kelleher – a San Antonio attorney who had performed previous legal work