Word: braniff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tell CAB it also wanted to operate feeders. Along came Frontier Airways, Inc. to say it should be the one to cloverleaf the Denver area with feeders. It had no planes, no pilots and no experience, but it had $100,000 in subscribed stock, and was backed by big Braniff Airways (TIME, Aug. 21). The small independent operators argued that if the big lines got the local feeder business, free competition would be thrown to the wolves of monopoly. The big lines cracked back that aviation as a whole would benefit only if feeder companies were run by sound business...
Last week Aerovias Braniff, S.A., Mexico subsidiary of Braniff Airways Inc., was granted permission by the Mexican Government to establish 3,067 miles of international services. As a Mexican flagline, Aerovias Braniff will operate to Miami and Los Angeles in the U.S., and to Panama via the Central American republics...
...Aerovias Braniff's request for permission to fly into the U.S. will add another problem to the Civil Aeronautics Board's crowded docket. Under the Good Neighbor policy, the U.S. cannot gracefully block a Mexican company from entering the U.S., if U.S. lines are to enjoy the right to fly into Mexico. But if Tom Braniff's Aerovias Braniff is allowed to cross the border, other U.S.-controlled Mexican companies may naturally be expected to apply for routes to the U.S. The result might be to create more lines than, potential traffic warrants...
Hero Youree was sentenced to be cashiered as an example to youngster airmen who are tempted to reckless flying. He was convicted at his station at the Ardmore, Okla. Army airfield of flying too close to a Braniff airliner and scaring the daylights out of its 21 passengers...
...Stockholders of Braniff Airways, Inc., now the fifth largest U.S. domestic airline (in passenger miles flown), authorized an increase in common stock from 400,000 shares of $2.50 par value to 1.500,000. The new capital (estimated at $5,000,000 at the offering price of $12.75) is to be used to finance projected domestic expansion and postwar global flying...