Word: braniff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only a brief interlude of truce interrupted the battling. In 1946, CAB certified Braniff International Airways to fly into South America. Faced with the threat of this new competitor, Pan Am and Panagra joined forces to squeeze Braniff out. Pan Am refused to let Braniff use its airport facilities or communications systems; Panagra warned its personnel not to fraternize with Braniff employees, even bribed a junior official for copies of Braniff's passenger manifests...
...Merger? When Braniff's competition proved to be small, the truce ended. Grace once again tried to break Pan Am's strangle hold on Panagra's operations. Charging Pan Am "with every conceivable obstructionist tactic," Grace in 1951 petitioned CAB for a Miami tie-up between Panagra and National Airlines. In a bristling counterattack, Pan Am accused Grace of seeking the tie-up only because of its holdings of 174,000 shares of National stock...
Before a House subcommittee investigating the Lockheed Electra crash in Boston that took 62 lives, Braniff Airways Captain Trooper A. Shaw gave the ill-fated Electra a supreme accolade: "The Electra is the safest and most reliable airplane it has been my privilege to fly." His testimony seemed in direct conflict with the views of his own airline, which only the day before in Dallas had filed a $2,400,000 suit against Lockheed Aircraft, the Electra's maker, and General Motors, which supplied the plane's Allison turboprop engines, charging that the Electra was "negligently and carelessly...
...contradictory attitudes toward the Electra represented the ambiguous position of Braniff-and other airlines-in the face of rising concern about the plane. Egged on by its lawyers, Braniff was trying to collect damages for the crash. At the same time, Braniff was working with Northwest, National and American Airlines to counteract public worry over the plane's safety, sending out "truth squads" of pilots who are sold on the Electra...
...recommendations are a blow to American. Eastern, Braniff and TWA, which had also applied. In his decision, Examiner Edward T. Stodola noted that these new routes are "the last great opportunity for some real regulatory statesmanship." But other airlines questioned Stodola's idea of statesmanship. The reason he settled on National was that it is the least well off of the applicants...