Ecuatoriana Pt3: VASP to the Rescue?
Ecuatoriana’s cessation of operations in 1993 had been something of a shock as the airline’s financial condition was unknown even
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Ecuatoriana Pt2: The Rainbow Fleet
Ecuatoriana dazzled the aviation world with its amazing special livery variations during the 1970s, as discussed in part 1. From 1979
Ecuatoriana – Jungle Jet Masterpieces
Special schemes are everywhere nowadays but back in the 70s Ecuatoriana produced a fleet of special schemes which have never
Silent Giants: A300s in Brasil
The A300 was an excellent product and yet Airbus really struggled to sell the type at first. Eventually, however, it
Choo Choo: JetTrain Runs Out of Steam
I love the stories of the deregulated era US airline industry, and during the 1980s and 90s there were a
Smiling Widebodies: PSA’s Tristar Gamble
Pacific Southwest had proven without a doubt during the 1950s and 60s that small well run airlines could compete against
Grinningbirds: PSA 1967-1970
Within a decade PSA had gone from being a small piston airline operation to the major player in the Californian
Jet California: PSA 1957-1967
By 1957 PSA had succeeded where hundreds of others had failed. By staying within California they had avoided the CAB’s
Poor Sailor’s Airline: PSA 1949-1958
Pacific Southwest Airlines, or PSA for short, was one of the great postwar US airline stories and it is forever
Delta’s Short-lived Short 727-95s
By 1972, the year that Delta acquired Northeast Airlines, it had risen to the mid-rank of the US Trunk majors,
Chester & the Multi-Mark: Alaska’s Orange 727
Alaska Airlines was one of the airlines that took the post-deregulation era by the scruff of the neck and ran
Golden Light: Pan Am’s Interchange DC-8-62
Pan Am had initially ordered more Douglas DC-8s than Boeing 707s, but although it took delivery of 19 of the