Aviator, Twa's Historic Past........

[mga707]

when you can see in movies like Aviator that Americans, who pioneered F/C Airline Travel, now must take a ' coach seat '. 🙁

[post="242203"][/post]​

That is simply untrue. In the '20s, airlines such as Imperial Airways (Britain), Air France's predecessor companies, and KLM (to name a few) had stewards serving their wealthy, pampered passengers fine wine and (for the gentlemen) cigars while they sat in plush wicker armchairs gazing out at the scenery slowly passing below their lumbering deHavilland and Farman biplanes.

Meanwhile, over here, the few daring (some called them crazy) souls who travelled by air were crammed in among the mailbags, freezing, on bare-bones mailpalnes like the Douglas M-2 and the Boeing Model 40.

So, in a sense, the US pioneered "no-frills" air travel!
😀

 

[cybercat]

And, let's not forget that one of Howard Hughes's legacies was almost destroying TWA ...

an early version of Icahn
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[mweiss]

And, let's not forget that one of Howard Hughes's legacies was almost destroying TWA ...

[post="243033"][/post]​

Hmmm...where did we hear that before...? 😛