A smile, it is often said, goes a long way. For one airline in California, that way eventually led to eight states and Mexico across the…
Author: Robert G. Waldvogel
Robert G. Waldvogel
Robert G. Waldvogel has spent thirty years working at JFK International and LaGuardia airports with the likes of Capitol Air, Midway Airlines, Triangle Aviation Services, Royal Jordanian Airlines, Austrian Airlines, and Lufthansa in Ground Operations and Management. He has created and taught aviation programs on both the airline and university level, and is an aviation author.
Long Island, with its treeless expanse known as the Hempstead Plains, proximity to Manhattan, and gateway to the country and the European continent by means of…
From often-snowbound New England to sunny Florida, Northeast Airlines, forever associated with its “Yellowbird” aircraft, chartered a checkered course that entailed financial lifelines, a dual-sided personality,…
A cadre of professionals with airline experience, the desire to establish a hub with a significant number of origin-and-destination passengers, a short-range, twinjet fleet, and a…
The old saying of “If you can’t beat them, join them” may be well known. But Muse Air was the result of its unknown opposite, namely,…
“Aloha, the Hawaiian greeting of “hello” and, by little stretch of the imagination, “welcome,” became the name of the state’s second major airline because its founder…
From the cactus that characterizes Arizona rose a uniquely structured deregulation carrier which established its hub there in the early 1980s and became the quintessential symbol…
Despite appearances to the contrary today, Port Washington, Long Island, with its calm, sheltered waters and location 15 miles from Manhattan, was once conducive to aviation…
Restricted by Civil Aeronautics Board route and fare authorizations back in the early 1960s, and left with little choice but to operate Boeing 707s and Douglas…
When a man stamps his name on the carrier he establishes, it reflects his strengths, philosophies, and ideals. In the case of Henson, they were quality…