Word: braniff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Calder had been asked to use the DC-8 as a canvas by Braniff Chairman Harding L. Lawrence, who broke commercial flying tradition by ordering up his jets in brilliant colors. Calder, who invented both the stabile and the mobile, starts painting an actual plane this fall in Dallas-with his signature eight feet high on the nose. It's a bird, it's a plane-it's a Calder...
Barnes first suggested the get-together last year, but Pan Am Chairman William Seawell may benefit most from the symbiosis. Pan Am, which has no significant intra-U.S. routes, has been in the market for a domestic partner for years, but merger talks with Eastern, United, TWA and Braniff have all fallen through. Now that Seawell's economies have begun to push Pan Am toward profitability, Allegheny's Barnes sees the two lines as made for each other. They stand to capture as much as $500 million a year in additional revenue by offering single-ticket service...
...said that Lufthansa has no intention of picking up its three Concorde options unless the plane is drastically redesigned. It is likely that Continental Airlines will also let its three places in the Concorde production line lapse next month, as will American with its six reservations, leaving Eastern and Braniff as the only potential takers in the U.S. Said Sir George Edwards, chairman of British Aircraft Corp., which along with France's Aerospatiale is building the Concorde: "We should not describe this as a fatal blow, but it's a hell of a setback...
National Airlines has been looking for someone to buy its two 747s "since the day they were delivered," says one executive of the company. Braniff ordered two jumbos but, with help from Boeing, arranged to sell one of them to Universal Airlines, a charter carrier, before the plane ever left the factory. TWA officers are willing to part with one or two of their 19 jumbos if they can find a buyer. Pan Am chiefs would welcome an offer to buy or lease one of their 747s...
...difficulties were developing long before he came aboard. The airline has never had any "feeder" routes within the continental U.S. to link up with its extensive international network. By contrast, TWA can move passengers in its own planes from Tulsa to Tel Aviv. Even such "domestic" carriers as American, Braniff and Eastern have international routes to the Caribbean, Canada or Latin America. Under Pan Am's founder, Juan Trippe, now honorary board chairman, the airline took on unprofitable routes in Latin America, Africa and Eastern Europe at least partly at the behest of the State Department...