Today’s airline passengers search the internet for the lowest possible fare, pay for their ticket with a credit card, have an electronic boarding pass sent to…
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.
First to spread wings in the 49th state, Wien Air Alaska served as a passenger and supply lifeline to remote communities, operated in geographically and climatically…
As the airlines crossed the bridge between the 1950s and 1960s decades, and the first long-range jets took form as the Boeing 707, the Douglas DC-8,…
Located at Schenectady County Airport in New York State’s Capital-Saratoga region, the Empire State Aerosciences Museum capitalizes on the state’s aviation history in building and exhibits.…
Ideas for carriers may come from many sources, but the one for World Airways was a logical one: Benjamin Pepper, a Boeing B314 flying boat pilot…
Deregulation, which enabled new-generation airlines to challenge the incumbent ones, resulted in two fundamental types: The low-fare, single-class, limited-amenity ones that attracted budget travelers and the…
As the 1960 decade dawned, jets appropriate for short ranges did not yet exist. But there was always a “first” for everything, and United Airlines took…
For a carrier whose identity was reflected by its “brightest star” name, it burned out after only a decade and a half, but during that time,…
If aviation had an equivalent to Mecca, it would most likely be Dayton, Ohio, and its Aviation Trail enables the visitor to trace the lives of…
Both birds and airplanes attain lift with wings. But one of the former species has none at all and is therefore flightless. When airlines fail, they, too,…