Word: braniff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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United workers will receive most of the terms they demanded in the contract dispute. The major item is a 39 cent an hour increase which they asked for after Braniff Airways, inc., granted a similar raise to their employees last week...
...increases (only to compromise later), enraged both U.S. regional carriers and the British by refusing to let the U.S. carriers buy British short-range jets, and kicked up a ruckus in the airline industry with its highhanded advice to Pan American and W. R. Grace to sell Panagra to Braniff. "I'm doing the job the best way I know how," says Chairman Boyd, "and I expect the staff and members to perform in the same way. I don't give a damn whose toes get stepped...
...Place in Line. American, Braniff and Mohawk airlines recently ordered a total of 31 British Aircraft Corp. BAC One-Eleven short-range jet transports worth $83.7 million. At the other end of the jet spectrum, among the big long distance models, Continental Air Lines fortnight ago signed up for three Concorde Mach 2.2 supersonic jet trans ports being built by a British-French consortium for delivery beginning in 1970. Pan Am has already ordered six Concordes - and TWA seems certain to follow. The orders are a form of insurance by the U.S. airlines to ensure them a place in line...
...bracket. The big difference is that the BAC One-Eleven will make its maiden flight in June; the DC-9 will not be ready to fly before 1965. And the British have already sold 41 One-Elevens, including twelve to Braniff, while Douglas does not yet have a single order...
...only short-range commercial jetliner now in production, the BAG One-Eleven aspires to be the workhorse DC-3 of the jet age when it goes into commercial service in 1964. British Aircraft Corp. has 33 orders, including four from the U.S.'s Mohawk Airlines and six from Braniff. Price: about $2.5 million each...