1st part of Bayram Annakov's seminar on US commercial aviation history. Based on 'Hard Landing' book

1. US Airlines History
based on “Hard Landing” book

3. Part 1. Air Mail

4. 1903 -
Wright brothers

5. Charles Lindbergh

6. Air mail

7. Privatisation
Boeing - Chicago to SF —> United
Airlines
Rickenbacker - Atlanta to Miami —>
Eastern Air
Trippe & Lindbergh - St. Louis to
Chicago, NY to Boston —> Pan Am

8. First Rule of
Airline Economics
If a plan is going to take off
anyway — any paying passenger or
payload is almost pure profit

9. World’s busiest airport
in 1930 - Tulsa, OK

10. Airmail reform -
Pay per distance & volume,
not weight
Walter
Folger
Brown

11. Big Four
3 routes from NYC to CA
United —> northern route
TWA —> center route
American —> southern route
Eastern —> north to south on East
Coast

12. Part 2. Government
regulation

13. Eastern vs Braniff
$0,00001907378 bid

14. C. R. Smith

15. Birth of CAB

16. Cost-based pricing

17. Part 3. Jet Age

18. Boeing 707

19. Half-empty planes

20. Service, food &
booze wars

21. John Robson
comes…

22. Part 4. Southwest

23. Herb Kelleher

24. Pacific Southwest
Airlines

25. Southwest Airlines

26. Elements
Veteran pilots
Retired American Airlines flight
attendants (<32 year policy)
Three 737s

27. DFW

28. Dallas Love Field

29. Love Campaign

30. Love Attendants

31. 1972 crisis at LUV
Sold a plane (4 planes at the moment)
10 min turnaround
Pilots and supervisors helped with baggage
Tickets collected onboard
Food & drinks restocked thought the rear door
while passengers deplaning through the front
Flight attendants removed trash

32. Off-peak rate - 10$

33. Second Rule of
Airline Economics
Giving the expense-account
customer something for free
that he could take home
instead of to the office - in short,
kickback, won his undying loyalty

34. Part 5. Wall Street
meets Airlines

35. Frank Lorenzo

36. Don Burr

37. Key events
Jet Capital & $1.5M raise
Texas International & youngest
president in commercial aviation
Peanuts fares and 600% increase in
7 days

38. Part 6. Network wars

39. Bob Crandall, American Airlines

40. Manual Reservation —> 20 separate
communications for 1 passenger
traveling on 2 connecting airlines

41. Mechanical System

42. OAG &
“listing bias”

43. Birth of SABRE

44. Richard Ferris, United Airlines

45. American Society of
Travel Agents meeting

46. Screen bias

47. To be continued…