Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...system enables American to load or unload a 112-passenger Boeing 707, rain or shine, in three to five minutes. The line intends to install the jet boarding system in other U.S. cities before year...
With the thought that climbing an old-fashioned ramp to board a jet plane is like using a ladder to mount a race horse, American Airlines last week introduced the first true jet-age boarding system. At a cost of more than $100,000, it put into operation at San Francisco's International Airport a system of "jetwalks...
...extend from the terminal at plane-door level on a high, fixed base. First-class passengers enter a short jetwalk that leads to the plane's front door via a short gondola that slides to the door on a monorail. Other passengers walk a longer distance along a jet-walk that runs parallel to the plane, enter the rear door through a telescoping corridor that can be moved out to the door on wheels. Both devices are operated electrically from a console that can raise, lower or telescope the ramp to suit the plane...
...million loss in the first quarter, TWA reported first-half earnings of $1.6 million, expects "better than substantial" profits for the year v. a $1.8 million loss last year when it was in the worst position of any major U.S. airline (TIME, Dec.1). This week TWA, which received its jets after competitors American and Pan American, will add jet service to Philadelphia and Kansas City, bringing to ten the number of cities that its jets serve. TWA benefited from break-in bugs that other lines have found in Boeing 707s (TIME, June 8), which helped it maintain a topflight...
...Full. Even more impressive for the balance sheet is TWA's jet load factor of 92%, which helped hike the line's domestic-revenue passenger miles 5.7% over July 1958. While total revenues rose from $280 million to $307 million for the year ended June 30, operating expenses have stayed level because of the reorganization of the line and staff cuts started by Thomas' predecessor, Carter Burgess, and continued by Thomas...