Word: 4s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have made good with their airlines. Both won their wings in the Navy, later served in the Air Transport Command, where they saw a bright future for peacetime cargo flying. Starting off with two surplus C-54s in 1947, they quickly built up a fleet of twelve DC-4s and a business of more than $10 million flying across the Pacific during the Korean War (TIME, July...
...Acting Chairman Chan Gurney. Pan Am had indeed led in passengers for the last two years, but most of its bulge came in 1953, when plane-short Northwest had to shift its Boeing Stratocruisers from the Pacific to domestic and Orient runs and fly DC-4s to Hawaii. In 1954 Northwest made up most of the loss, ran almost neck and neck with Pan Am. Over the entire six-year test period, Northwest was the real leader, having flown 31,038 passengers to Pan Am's 30,700. As for subsidies, Northwest had previously said that it would...
...Spain. By rail, the 312-mile trip to Barcelona from Madrid takes all day, costs $9.50 on a rattletrap train. Highway travel is just as bad-over narrow, potholed, mountainous roads. But in one of Iberia's 32 British and American planes (mostly Douglas DC-3s and DC-4s) the Barcelona trip takes less than two hours, costs only...
...between Los Angeles and New York were started last week by North American Airlines, biggest (1953 revenue: $10 million) nonscheduled passenger carrier. North American (no kin to American Airlines or North American Aviation, Inc.) has bought two 307-m.p.h. Douglas DC-6Bs, will use them to replace older DC-4s in daily service. Round-trip fare: $160 v, $198 for scheduled (American, United, T.W.A.) aircoach service to the West Coast...
Carmichael found it easy to finance the deal through Vickers since the British are eager to break into the U.S. market. By 1957 Viscounts should completely retire Capital's Constellations and a good part of its fleet of DC-3s and DC-4s. One big advantage: the Viscount can operate from all but three of the 51 fields on Capital's routes, whereas Capital's Constellations cannot operate from 15, and its DC-4s cannot operate from ten. Says Slim Carmichael: "This plane puts us close to the airline operator's ideal. . . . to serve the entire...