Posted on 10/15/2015 8:18:29 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
It's the end of the line for US Airways.
The airline that started as a tiny airmail service 76 years ago is retiring as part of a 2013 merger with American Airlines. The final US Airways flight is scheduled to take off from Philadelphia on Friday.
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I think we’re the only country in the world without a “national” airline.
I remember US Airways when it was still Allegheny Airlines. Used to fly from Providence to DC in the early 1970’s.
My first flight was in 1955 from Boston to Oklahoma City.
It was luxurious.
We had real china,great food, and lots of room in the seats and on the plane.
No jets then,so no jet way. We walked across the tarmac to the plane and climbed the stairs.
I was dressed up,of course. No casual wear on planes in those days.
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Unfortunately Still Allegheny
I remember when everyone dressed in suit and tie and the women dressed like ladies (not whores!) when they were going to be on an airliner, I remember flying on a Lockheed Constellation and I can only compare it to the most luxurious Pullman car on one of the old railroads (New York Central, Pennsylvania Railroad, Santa Fe, etc), we sure took a wrong turn along the way, know what I mean?
I recall the label USscare.
My memory of USeless Air is when they convinced Pittsburgh to build a new state of the art terminal according to their specification in return for making Pittsburgh a hub. A few years later, they abandoned us.
“we sure took a wrong turn along the way, know what I mean?”
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We sure did.
Sad.
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With US Airs holy than thou and stuffy Eastern attitude they were down to one flight a day and finally left.
A Kansas City friend and I were talking about the Royals-Astros rivalry earlier in the week and each bragging on our own team. Her parents and mine were very close friends long, long ago and both couples had season tickets to the KC Royals. She still has a pic of them as they were going to a game - women in dresses, heels, hats and gloves, men in suits, white shirts, ties and a “dress hat”.
I was a flight attendant for TWA back in the late 1950’s. You are right about everyone “dressing up” to fly. We also served meals on real plates with cloth napkins and sterling silver. Didn’t have plastic anything back then. By comparison to what most people wear now, we dressed up everywhere we went. Nowadays most people wear the same clothes to work in the yard as they wear to go to work or out to dinner.
Took some nice trips down to the Bahamas on US Air over the years, except for the one when it was raining all up and down the east coast and our plane to leave Philly arrived there late because it couldn’t get out of Hartford, or someplace up there - got to our destination six hours late.....
“I think we’re the only country in the world without a “national” airline.”
That’s a good thing. Imagine TSA quality people running an entire airline.
I know exactly what you mean.
We (not ALL of us, but a lot of us) have turned into a nation of slobs. I would say it started around the time of the Communist-hippie insurgency of the 1960’s. Former Alabama Governor George Wallace, during his 1968 campaign for the White House, said “the only four letter words those hippies don’t know is ‘s-o-a-p’ and ‘w-o-r-k’.”
Weren’t they once Piedmont Airlines? US Air kinda sucked anyway.
And that is a good thing. One of the few left.
Think AMTRAC.
British Airways is publically owned. Margaret Thatcher in her infinite wisdom sold it off to private investors as she did coal, steel, national railways etc. She saved Britain.
I suspect she and Ronald Reagan share a drink in the evenings in heaven.
Allegheny’s agreement with Henson Airlines, the forerunner to today’s US Airways Express carrier Piedmont Airlines, to operate “Allegheny Commuter” flights was the industry’s first code-share agreement,[19] a type of service now offered throughout the industry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Airways
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