Showing posts with label 1979. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1979. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 1, 2020

Saturday, February 17, 2018

Western Airlines - September, 1979

Interesting note included in this timetable:

Local boarding traffic cannot be carried between Hilo and Honolulu. Western Airlines passengers may be carried on convenient connections via Aloha and Hawaiian Airlines for daily Western service to mainland cities.

https://twitter.com/AvGeek71/status/964893559534088192


  
 





Sunday, June 4, 2017

Royale Airlines - November, 1979

Royale was a commuter that lasted until 1987. Here's an article from 1983 that details Royale's Continental Commuter operation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royale_Airlines








Saturday, December 31, 2016

National Airlines - March, 1979

How does an airline publish a timetable without a route map? Well, National Airlines did in 1979. Even without the route map, this timetable is a good example of how to use a timetable to advertise. I didn't know that Houston was a focus city for National, so I included the schedules for that city. I searched the internet for a National route map to no avail. I'll keep looking.

Update: Here's a site that features some advertising from National and their final route map before they were acquired by PanAm.


This is as close to a route map as you'll get in this timetable:

Here are some other great advertisements:

This is a good commercial featuring National's expansion to Europe:



Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Allegheny Airlines - September, 1979

This is a great timetable. It features Allegheny morphing into USAir, which would eventually be renamed US Airways.

From Wikipedia:
But with expansion came growing pains: by the 1970s Allegheny Airlines had the nickname "Agony Air" due to customer dissatisfaction with the carrier's service. Even after a later rebranding to "USAir", when service sometimes skidded downward, complainers sometimes dubbed the airline "Useless Air", or even worse, "USScare."
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