Stretch Stopgaps: National’s Super Sixties
The stretch DC-8 super 61/63s were the first ‘Jumbo Jets’, indeed Flying Tigers even had that title painted on theirs, […]
Airlines of USA
Northwest’s Orphan Mad Dogs
Deregulation brought incredible turbulence to the previously rather placid US airline system and this was only mad worse by the
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
Air Mike to Continental Micronesia
By the end of the 1980s Air Micronesia was going from strength to strength, whereas its shareholder and partner Continental
Trust in Mike: Air Micronesia
The sheer size of the Pacific Ocean has made air travel both a necessity and a significant challenge. In the