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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Airway Corp.'s protest to C.A.B. on transatlantic competition (see above) was not matched by its rough-&-tumble row with a competitor in Mexico. The competitor: Aerovias Braniff, S.A., affiliate of the U.S.'s Braniff Airways Inc. (TIME, April 16). The battleground: the route from Mexico City to Merida via Vera Cruz, where Braniff made its first flight on July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Flare-Up in Mexico | 8/13/1945 | See Source »

...this route Braniff paralleled a service long operated by Pan Am's Mexican subsidiary, Compañia Mexicana de Aviacion, S.A., which protested loudly against the operating permit granted to Braniff by the Minister of Communications. When protests failed, C.M.A. resorted to deeds. The resulting intercompany battle that marked the first round-trip Braniff flight from Mexico City to Merida was in the best swashbuckling tradition of business below the border...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Flare-Up in Mexico | 8/13/1945 | See Source »

...Braniff Airways broke into the clear, earned $28,000 profit. Last year earnings were a good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: To the Americas | 4/16/1945 | See Source »

Imperialism without a Sting. Braniff planned his first foreign venture with care. Too many U.S. businessmen, he thought, have gone into foreign companies, exploited them to the last penny of profit, and pulled out. His own plan: to organize a Mexican company, operated by Mexicans, and paying more than lip service to the Mexican economy. For himself he asked for a fair return on his investment, a traffic hookup between his two airlines. This brand of Yankee business easily won Mexican favor, plus route privileges to Tampico, Merida, Vera Cruz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: To the Americas | 4/16/1945 | See Source »

When new planes are available, Aerovias has ambitious plans for expansion. In addition to more routes in Mexico, the Mexican flag line expects to push south to Panama. It will also ask the Civil Aeronautics Board for permission to land at Miami and Los Angeles. How much more Braniff will get in its own country, to add to its well-fed inland service, Braniff Airways, Inc. could predict no more accurately than the dozens of other U.S. lines ascramble for new routes. But one thing was certain: Braniff's Mexican cousin had its start, was in competition in Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: To the Americas | 4/16/1945 | See Source »

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