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...Mexico City's Central Airport a crowd of 15,000 wildly cheered the landing of a shiny, reconverted Douglas DC-3. The big transport had just made the first flight over Mexico's newest airline-Aerovias Braniff...
Home after piloting heavy bombers on 25 combat missions over Europe, one day last spring Captain Pervis Earl Youree, D.F.C., Air Medal, etc., flirted his Flying Fortress up alongside a lumbering Braniff airliner (TIME, May 29). For this serious indiscretion he was court-martialed, sentenced to be cashiered as an example to other caper-cutting Army airmen. Appeals to General Henry H. Arnold, who was disturbed by the accidents resulting from such antics, got nowhere. Friends of Youree went to the White House...
...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...