I flew on PSA a lot. $19 each way OAK to LAX in late 70s. Super hip and really fun. Really miss them.

Is flying from hong kong to Brisbane on a350 of Cathay Pacific economy a good experience? I am a little uncomfortable of the closed spaces and sometimes panic due to the feeling of being trapped. Please advise me.

Make no mistake, the union killed Eastern Airlines. We would suck up the money Eastern lost every time they went on strike. It was gravy. I’m for collective bargaining, but you got to know when back off. It does your family no good to have to start all over again when they should caring about school and the like.

ATA was one of my best customers and of all the carriers that I dealt with, ATA people were among the very best.

So sad, Braniff was a forward looking airline, great promotions, colors, and those fun stewardesses.

3:45 I didn’t know MidWay went to my airport :O (JAX)

Ironically, airlines in the USA are still failing today. Recently, Hawaiian Airlines was bought out by Alaskan Airlines, because its only other option was going bankrupt and shutting down. Now in addition, Spirit is in severe financial trouble. The failed merger with JetBlue may be the end of the airline within the next year unless someone else tries to buy it out like Frontier - but it is not doing particularly well either.

My dad flew in a eastern L1011

They grew aggressively fast,,their own fault

Seems a bit odd, he hasn’t noticed his nails were not cut yet and looked a bit grubby as he reached out pointing towards the overhead nozzles and lighting switches. Plus a tiny wart too on his finger … an interesting report but awfully typical of that backpacking trip experience for the flight. It’s informative for that year, aside all else said.

Hold on! AirTran was never defunct! The y were absorbed by one of the most successful airlines in history, Southwest Airlines….

It's easy to blame it all on Lorenzo. The Unions were destroying the company and Texas Air was primarily interested in acquiring System One computer. Naturally, the assets were being moved to Continental, a solvent and growing concern. When the unions struck, Eastern management was given the choice by Lorenzo to liquidate or rebuild. They chose the latter. Assets were moved back from Continental in the efforts to resurrect the airline. A number of factors, including soaring fuel costs and recession finally gave the unions their wish. Borman had been hated as well. The old timers would say, "Same hate, different Frank." I know this comment will stir up some hate from those who were duped by the unions. Always does.

Did you seriously say Marine Corpse???

Food and flight from a soy boy point of view. Kid you need some more testosterone in your blood, to get some man bass in your voice. Seriously. When we were 16=17 we had more bass in our voice as young men. Get to a gym, and eat more grass fed beef.

Eastern did not "save" Airbus. That's absurd.

They sure had style though ..... those liveries, colors (colours), Calder art, Pucci uniforms, Halston, etc.

$99.00 from SFO to HNL.

I've heard of a Boeing -707 but i guarantee that i have never heard of a Boeing-720 but maybe you meant Boeing-727.I loved ATA because after my ATA took off from Honolulu the nice flight attendant invited me up to first class cause they needed me to translate a different language to a passenger.

As a kid, I remember hearing the nickname for the 146: "Bring Another Engine" AC

I'm older than Jesus on the Cross, and have been an Airline Pig since I was knee-high high to a grasshopper and never heard of this airline before.

Braniff was just another victim of the deregulated aviation market. This is why under capitalism, the strongest win and the weaker die out.

ATA was just another victim of the unregulated aviation market.

I used to fly em as a baby

Just because you share a name with a much loved legacy airline, doesn't ensure success. The original Western, was one of the pioneer airlines in the U.S. and people had affection for these airlines. Their exemplary service, the family like feeling between the employees and knowing that you were a part of history and something spectacular, goes a long way towards building a successful company of ANY kind. Many people who try to start airlines with a legacy carrier's name, think that the name and sentimentality will bring them success and money. It doesn't work that way. An airline requires a major investment in time and money and you must LOVE the airline business. This is a service industry above all else and your employees, as well as your passengers, can tell rather quickly, that you don't have their best interests, safety and comfort in mind. Speak to the former employees of any airline that fell victim to greed and mismanagement. Especially the airlines that were once "powerhouses"; Pan Am, Eastern, TWA, Continental, Northwest and Frontier. A name alone, will not give you the "Midas touch"..😞

L1011s are beautiful airplanes

These types of videos are bittersweet because they remind us of a time when aviation was exciting, glamorous and enjoyable. De-regulation messed it all up. These airlines were fun and made flying an adventure...we need them back.😞😒

Big Orange

thanks for educating me about PSA more thoroughly! i'm a SoCal kid but not old enough to have experience with them... although I've loved their livery & interior palettes for a long time. just curious why the image at 8:20 is very obviously LAX while talking about game-changing departures from SD & Oakland to destinations in Nevada

We unite!! I used to be a flight attendant for ATA. The best years of my life and visited wonderful countries with great hospitality. No other airline will allow you to experience what we had. 😢

So, it's fall 1985 and I had just finished my 3rd AIT school in the Army at Ft. Devens in MA and caught a People's Express from Boston to Newark. Last seat in the back row right next to some psychotic woman in full body leather who kept belching in my face and trying to lick my ear...they run the Pay Cart down the isle after takeoff and she's still going totally psycho. No help from a stewardess - I pay my bill when the cart comes by - and elbow blow the nut and put her to sleep...still trying to forget that little hop from Boston to Newark.

South Park Lyrics : I'm goin' down to South Park gonna have myself a time Friendly faces everwhere humble folks without temptation I'm goin' down to South Park gonna leave my woes behind Ample Parking Day or Night, people spouting "Howdy Neighbor!" I'm headin' down to South Park gonna see if I can't unwind I like girls with big fat t**ties, I like girls with deep v**inas So come on down to South Park, and meet some friends of mine

I live only a block from where PSA 182 went down in North Park in 1978 (thankfully, I didn’t live here then) but it was a tragedy that haunted the airline until the end…the neighborhood never recovered either😊

I initially thought this was about Midwest Express and was perplexed why you started talking about Chicago (as Midwest Express was beloved in my hometown of Milwaukee)

I would’ve love to fly this one just once being someone on a budget

Mmmmm fresh chocolate chip cookies! Oh how I would have loved to fly this airline

Just so you and everyone else know, it is a BAE 146 not BEA 146

I was working at the Ala Moana Hotel when that last crew arrived to check in. The announcement of suspended operations came shortly after they arrived but we knew a little before it was coming. I was the manager on duty and our GM told me that the crew members needed to pay us directly for their rooms as the airline owed us a huge amount of money. I felt so bad for the crew and gave them some free meal vouchers to help them save on the added expense. Ironically, I was in their shoes when the airline I flew with (Rich International Airways) had gone under in 2006 and was faced with the same predicament when we arrived in San Francisco after an overnight flight from HNL - DFW and I ended up getting a flight from SFO back home to HNL the following day. The crew were very kind and sympathetic to us on that flight home. ATA was a good airline and it’s sad they couldn’t stay aloft.

Eastern was the last major Airline to go all jet. I was a Steward ( flight attendant) in the 70's for Eastern and actually flew on the Electra ( huge prop jet with First Class in the back). We got Franked by both of these men!

Thanks for the Midwest Express Airlines story.

American Airlines helped destroy Braniff by overbooking their flights.

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I work for the original Midway Airlines in the mid-80s we were based on LaGuardia at the time it was well-loved it was well-liked but management made very critical errors Chief among those was picking up a bunch of Old Eastern aircraft and another cold weather Hub it doomed them and then when they declared bankruptcy they completely went out of business instead of seeking protection under chapter 7 or chapter 8 whatever it is called they just flat out went bankrupt didn't need to do that either Midway had a loyal public and they had a real Niche that they could have exploited using Chicago Midway Airport when they got away from that and over-expanded that was when they got into trouble

Me and my friends used to drive from Richmond to Norfolk to fly up to NYC because it was quicker and cheaper than taking the train.

Kinda surprised you didn't tap into some of the talks Howard Putnam did that are on YT where he talked about some juicy stuff things like the Enterprise episode ("Tailspin") didn't mention - a lot of small things like on Putnam's first day the FBI showing up to arrest the director of fuel purchases, or even silly things like as a joke fellow higher ups changing his nametag so it read "Shithead." 😂 (and how humor helped them try to keep pushing on). The channel "PDA Speakers" is one channels that has these talks he did.

Lorenzo took EAL down. This video leaves out many details.

i think midwest DC9 crashed after taking off back in the 80s.

It was foolish to take on USAir in PHL. Midway had a big long ticket counter there. I booked many fights and knew Midway was in for a fight when USAir, the main east coast hub carrier lowered ticket prices.

Republic airways still uses the code YX for flights. A little bit of Midwest still remains.

My first flight was in a PSA L-188 Electra from San Diego to LAX on my happy way home to MCI from Navy boot camp in April, 1966. Made several more uneventful and on time trips with PSA over the next 4 years. I was heartsick over the tragic crash into a SD residential neighborhood many years later. Felt close to that 727, passengers and crew for some reason. Not happy that PSA was gobbled up in the endless mergers in the 1980s. A good company was lost to corporate greed.